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...architecture. Designed by Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc, its sleek concrete, steel and glass form makes it look like a stranded ocean liner, an image that deliberately echoes Tintin's many maritime exploits. Built at a cost of $20 million, and financed by Hergé's second wife Fanny, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work, much of which has, until now, been languishing largely unseen in studios and bank vaults. The displays focus not only on Tintin, but also the many other comic-strip characters Hergé created, and the myriad influences on his work...
Although Magritte lived a quiet life with his wife, enjoying simple pleasures like walking his dog and playing chess with his friends, he had a rebellious streak. He briefly joined the Communist Party in 1945 and even contributed poster designs to the cause. "My art is valid only insofar as it is opposed to the bourgeois ideal in whose name life is being extinguished," he said. Hergé admired Magritte, and even bought one of his paintings. Magritte, however, saw Tintin as too colonial, Catholic and conservative. In the 1930s, Hergé drew the cover for a political pamphlet...
...challenges that greeted Hammonds in her professional life over the past year, as well as her reserved personality, have prevented her from gaining the trust of the student body as the chief College administrator. And in her personal life, the diagnosis of her wife, Alexandra, with cancer soon after her acceptance of the deanship has compounded the struggles of the past year...
...Jackson expressed a desire to return to his research in an interview with The Crimson in May, and in a town hall with students early this semester quipped that he had promised his wife only six months of “this madness...
...This type of cut specifically disadvantages the Quad,” says Christakis, who along with his wife will inherit a budget finalized by his predecessors, James J. and Sue McCarthy. He adds that he was concerned that Quad residents will also have to contend with the closure of the Quad library next year, another cut announced in early...