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...words down into phonemes. This in no way reflects on their intelligence. Artist Robert Rauschenberg, actor Tom Cruise and Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea are just three of countless famous and successful dyslexics. Historical figures who may have had the disorder include the poet W.B. Yeats and Leonardo da Vinci. Nonetheless, it can be a lifelong challenge...
There is something so otherworldly about these frames. They evoke the hyper-realist, pop illustration style of Maxfield Parrish and the uneasy, richly detailed backgrounds of da Vinci, yet they are photographs, with the texture and versimilitude that implies. Like shots of the long climb up the "escarpment" in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan pictures from the same period, they immediately summon the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. This is fantasy on a grand scale...
...Great Hon'ami Koetsu--how many people in the West have heard of him? Not too many, but in the early 17th century this man was to Japanese culture roughly what Leonardo da Vinci or Benvenuto Cellini had been to Italy a century before: a wonderfully versatile master of many media, renowned equally as painter, calligrapher, potter, lacquer artist and, thanks to his close relationship with the great shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the virtual "art director" of Buddhist Japan. No artist, Eastern or Western, was ever more authoritative within his own culture; and Koetsu's work was also identified with...
DISCOVERING JAPAN'S DA VINCI HON'AMI KOETSU...
...less famous than its Second City rival, the Steppenwolf, but the Goodman Theatre is one of America's finest, most adventurous regional companies. Under artistic director Robert Falls, it has boosted the careers of such playwrights as Mary Zimmerman (The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci) and Rebecca Gilman (Spinning into Butter), and presented landmark revivals such as the 1999 Tony Award-winning Death of a Salesman, starring Brian Dennehy. This fall the Goodman rewards itself with a new home, a 170,000-sq.-ft., two-stage theater complex in downtown Chicago. Its inaugural production, King Hedley II, eighth in August...