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...fascinated some of the chief figures of modernism. Picasso was on board; his thick-limbed "neoclassical" women from the 1920s are indebted to Renoir. So was Matisse, who had one eye on Renoir's Orientalist dress-up fantasies like The Concert, with its flattened space and overall patterning, when he produced his odalisques. Given that so much of late Renoir seems saccharine and semicomical to us, is it still possible to see what made it modern to them? (See TIME's photo-essay "The Renaissance's Big Men on Canvas...
Casey’s offensive prowess will make the entire team even better in the future, as it will cause opposing defenders to focus more on stopping him—thus allowing Lin, who is almost constantly double-teamed, to have more space to work with on the floor...
Using black is Tambellini’s way of evoking the infinite space that surrounds our planet. The Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, wrote, “Before me—blackness: an inky-black sky studded with stars that glowed but did not twinkle; they seemed immobilized. Space itself appears as a bottomless pit. Such intensity of black does not exist on earth.” When Tambellini read these words in 1965, he realized that he has already been striving for a similar effect with his art and films. His work...
...Tambellini’s poems begins with the words, “Nothing in space is a square or a cube.” This focus on the spherical design of natural forms is evident in many of his creations, but it also functions as a small part of a larger theme. Through his art, Tambellini seeks to access that which is beyond the global, while maintaining a genuine concern for the social and political issues around...
...cast similarly wide at Volte, volte.in, in the tony Colaba district, where the exhibits range from video art to LED installations. There are occasional poetry readings and talks by artists too. "People are often intimidated by art in old-fashioned galleries," says owner Tushar Jiwarajka. "We wanted a friendly space with nontraditional art." Showing from Feb. 27 to March 25 is work from the young British-Indian video and performance artist Kiran Kaur Brar. "Gallery culture will take a while to catch on, but we are in this for the long run," says Jiwarajka. Let's hope another market crash...