Word: willems
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...Portrait of the Artist Richard Lacayo's on-target homage to the late Robert Rauschenberg mentions the artist's old friendship with John Cage and his romantic relationship with Jasper Johns but not his vital love/hate/play relationships with Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock [May 26]. Leaving out that dynamic part of his life is like leaving the subject's nose off his portrait. Rauschenberg would have loved it. Donald Wigal, New York City
...York City in 1949, Abstract Expressionism was at the height of its art-world prestige. What that means, of course, is that it was ready for somebody to kick it in the pants. Enter Rauschenberg, with his new shoes on. It wasn't that he hated Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. To a man of his unbridled disposition, their vigor, their free gestures on the canvas were bound to appeal. But within a few years he would arrive at something in his own work that was more loose limbed and encompassing?and a lot less solemn?than even...
...This was surely a factor in the rise of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists - the New York School - that included artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Arshile Gorky. In the 1940s and '50s, they all lived not far from one another in a combustible concentration on Manhattan's West Side, in Greenwich Village or just south of there. From their continual friction and cross-pollination, a powerful movement was born...
...University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa hope they have opened the door to a new way of studying TB and its effects. Megan Murray, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), co-led the project, which has been ongoing for 15 months. Willem Sturm, the Interim Dean of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa, was the project’s other leader. The project focused on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) that had recently killed 45 people in KwaZulu-Natal. The collection...
Rugby as a Social Scrum If Vivienne Walt had spoken to a single South African rugby supporter [Sept. 24] she would have realized that they just want their team to win every match it competes in, whether the players on the field are white, black, yellow or pink! Willem du Preez, SOUTH AFRICA...