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...mention my having written two operas, i.e., the music. That is more important than my written criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient...
...Jacques Villon's "Seated Woman" is an equally disturbing comment on the effects of modernity on human beings. A tiny figure huddles in the background while its huge rabbit-like feet lunge into the foreground. The image is not comical; the clenched fists, open mouth and oversized staring eyes cry out like Edvard Munch's tortured souls...
...where," asked the 15th century French poet François Villon, "are the snows of yesteryear?" Ruth Kirk knows, and in her newly published Snow, she answers not only Villon's question but any others the reader-be he skier, scientist or snowbound suburbanite-may have about the stuff that delights children, often annoys and inconveniences adults, and, to a greater extent than most people are aware, has influenced the course of history and will continue to do so. As Kirk describes, the snows of yesteryear-and the years before that-have been compressed for thousands of years into...
...Jacques Villon. At the Fogg through February 29. Look at 1Le Jockey to understand Villon's conceptual complexity...
Fogg Art Museum: The Fogg just opened a Jacques Villon retrospective his week), which one could almost subtitle "The Adventures of Marcel Duchamp's Smarter Brother." Whatever their relative merits, Villon was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. He was not a revolutionary like his brother, but continued to refine his chosen visual style--Cubism--throughout a long career. His color sense and sophistication produced work that Issboth elegang and exciting. See the show for a study break, if nothing else. Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston: An Arab celebration of costumes, artifacts, photographs, mosque designs, Islamic prints...