Word: watercolor
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...Hotel Boston, which despite its name is not in Massachusetts but in Turin, give no hint of the modern-art bonanza within. Guests check in beneath a poetic fusion of paint, cement and metal by Torinese artist Marco Gastini. A triptych by Roy Lichtenstein and a watercolor by Lucio Fontana hang in the bar. But it's the plethora of paintings, photographs and sculptures by lesser-known Italian talents - Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Nicola Bolla - that suggest this is a private passion made public...
...parking lots it is about stretching the definition of the sport—tying its origins in British prisons and alleyways and boarding schools to its current spectacular global form.Michele ZalopanyMichele Zalopany is a returning visiting faculty member and will teach her last term of “Watercolor Painting” this fall. Born in Detroit in 1955, her work centers around the social and political themes of her childhood. Her paintings, done in a photographic style, depict American people and iconography. They are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and the San Francisco Museum...
...hospital," Biden said. "I'd turn around and there would be some specialist from Massachusetts, a doc I never even asked for, literally sitting in the room with me." Kennedy spent a lot of time at Walter Reed hospital, with wounded soldiers. He gave a dying Senate reporter a watercolor he'd painted for her nursing home wall. He called every family of the 78 Massachusetts residents who died on September 11, to say "I'm sorry, and I'm here if you need me." He opened his Boston home to colleagues who had to come to town for cancer...
...first thing I noticed when I entered the restaurant was the electric trains—you know, little model trains that made adorable choo-choo noises. The whole environment, complete with oval stone bridges, frosted glass dividers, and delicate watercolor paintings, gave a quirky vibe, a mix of Eastern traditional decor and the Western industrial revolution...
...with a Matisse nude tucked away nearby; on the other side of the broad rectangular room, where Renaissance objects of bronze and silver intermingle with sumptuous art-deco furniture, an elaborate cubist Picasso masterpiece - Instruments de musique sur un guéridon, 1914 - hangs above a Cézanne watercolor of a French landscape, which hangs over a sleek, black bookcase hosting a perfect little female portrait by the 19th-century master Ingres...