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...Calatrava wanted to be a sculptor, but an early encounter with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sent him down the path of architecture (art is still his avocation--his Manhattan town house and his villa outside Zurich are filled with his abstract steel sculpture). Shortly after finishing his architecture studies he won a design competition for a train station in Zurich, and because he had taken the unusual step of getting a second degree in engineering, he soon found himself being sought out to design bridges throughout Europe, a job that ordinarily falls to engineers and rarely...
...studio session to record a CD, David Roth, 39, a Chicago-area sculptor turned singer-songwriter, was having trouble with the part-time bass player--his wife Heidi Meredith. Both had grown up in broken homes and hoped to avoid separation. But after more than a decade together, they had devolved into chronic arguers: how to make the bed, how to make music. "We were in this decaying orbit that was going to crash and burn," says Roth. Says Meredith, 39: "It was never a question of our not loving each other. We would just completely butt heads, and then...
...sculptor is Kate Frobisher, who is recovering from both a serious car accident and the death of her husband Ben, a photojournalist killed in Afghanistan. Ben had been working there with Stephen Sharkey, a writer who witnessed 9/11 in New York City and has returned to the rural northeast of England to write a book about the depiction of war and to nurse the lingering emotional wounds of a marriage that coincidentally died on the same day the towers fell. Settling down not far from Kate, Stephen finds comfort in the arms of Justine, the much younger daughter...
...have never manifested "the will to make a masterpiece"--which would have come as news to Jackson Pollock, to say nothing of the thundering landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.) But whatever his merits as a thinker, as an entrepreneur Currin is doing fine. With his wife Rachel Feinstein, a sculptor whose high forehead and pert chin turn up repeatedly in his work, he's a regular on the art-world party scene, working up press coverage and collector interest. Steve Martin buys his work. Two years ago, one of his paintings, Ms. Omni, sold at auction...
...work was by all accounts strange and fascinating--"totally subtle and barbaric," one critic wrote. But her promise was never fulfilled. As she grew from an adolescent to a woman, her life took a darker turn. She fell in love with a succession of men--among them the sculptor Alexander Calder and the writer Samuel Beckett--each of whom left her newly heartbroken. Although she was devoted to her father, she raged at the shadow that his growing fame cast over her ineffectual career, and she became increasingly difficult to live with. She threw chairs, lighted fires, cut the family...