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...Indeed, Tuesday's ruling, in many ways, represents a back door to equal treatment. Franck Tanguy, spokesman for France's Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents, says "this ruling is a step in the right direction" in that it "requires countries that, like France, allow singles to adopt children to treat unmarried homosexual and heterosexual applicants in exactly the same manner." Failure to do so in any country with such legislation, Tanguy says, means they'd "find themselves condemned again and again for discrimination by the many single homosexuals who'd use this precedent to base a legal defense...
...Nine European countries currently permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children: Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Sweden. Tuesday's ruling may be a boon for single homosexuals seeking to adopt children where unwed heterosexuals are allowed to do so. But Tanguy says it may also cause countries to shelve any plans to allow straight unmarried couples to adopt in order to keep gays and lesbians from doing the same...
DIED. HENRI ROL-TANGUY, 94, legendary figure of the French Resistance and hero of the liberation of Paris, who with General Philippe Leclerc presided over the German surrender on Aug. 25, 1944; in Monteaux, France. A member of the French Communist Party from the age of 17, Rol-Tanguy joined Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, then began organizing armed resistance in Paris from mid-1941. After retiring from the Army in 1962 he remained active in the Communist Party, serving on its central committee until...
Both Magritte and Picasso, and their very different ideas, figure prominently in "Surrealism 1919-1944," the show that's breaking attendance records at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in D?sseldorf. So do Dali, Miró, Ernst, Arp, Tanguy, Giacometti and a host of others belonging to the movement that curator Werner Spies is not afraid to call the most important of the 20th century - "because all the greatest artists of the century were connected with it." With 500 paintings and sculptures, the show documents the whole range of Surrealism's vast output in pursuit of surprise and mystery. It even exhibits...
...friends in the U.S., some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Among them, from Paris, were Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz and the core group of Surrealists who went to New York City: Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson and Roberto Matta. From Germany, Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and the Dada collagist John Heartfield reached London, while Max Beckmann, Josef Albers and George Grosz made it to America...