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...friends," Botero says. "They would come over after dinner. I was broke." Talk about a reversal of fortune. Botero is now one of the world's richest and most successful artists. This week, a major retrospective, covering merely the last 15 of his 56 years' work, opens in Rome's Palazzo Venezia, showcasing 170 paintings, drawings and sculptures. The exhibition moves to the Würth Museum in Künzelsau, north of Stuttgart, Germany, in October and to Athens next summer, before heading to the U.S. in late 2006. The exhibition is sure to delight the many devotees...
...hoped to pick up some tips from the master himself, Picasso. The two knocked on Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost," Botero laughs. Botero's plump, comical characters appear even when the subject matter is grim. Central to the exhibition in Rome are some of the darkest images Botero has ever created: 45 paintings and drawings depicting the Abu Ghraib prison abuses in Iraq. The canvases - including Abu Ghraib 43, which shows a bruised, hooded detainee tied to the bars of his cell - will be shown publicly for the first time...
...always been as a champion of Europe. And now that brand has been damaged." Prodi indicated last week that he would sacrifice his own ambitions if necessary for the good of the coalition: "The project comes before the roles, and the roles we'll decide together." Some are promoting Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni, 49, as a fresher alternative. "Veltroni is a uniter. He's a classic big-tent candidate," says an opposition spokesman. And that's what may be needed to control the center-left circus. For the moment, Veltroni continues to express loyalty to Prodi...
Live Aid organizer bob Geldof called a press conference last week to announce his attempt to reanimate his monstrous success of 20 years ago. This time round, the biggest global rock show on earth, punningly called Live 8, will consist of free concerts in Berlin, London, Paris, Philadelphia and Rome on July 2, followed by a public demonstration on the eve of the G-8 conference in Scotland. The idea is to pressure G-8 participants to help reduce poverty in Africa. But this time Geldof's monster may be out of control. He and co-organizer Midge Ure implored...
APPOINTED. STANISLAW DZIWISZ, 66, as Archbishop of Krakow, Poland; by Pope Benedict XVI; in Rome. Pope John Paul II's longtime personal secretary and confidant, Dziwisz will take over the job his former boss held before being elected to the papacy...