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Folon was forced to study architecture by his parents; but upon turning 21 in 1955, he packed a small bag of art supplies and bolted for Paris, only six months before he could have received a university diploma. After several apprentice years, he met the artistic director of Olivetti, who...
TALIESIN WEST: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S ARIZONA LEGACY, Scottsdale. There have long been daily tours, but now the master's Western architecture school and home is offering special seminars and musical performances, as well as expanded tours each Thursday, featuring spaces never before open to the public. Through April 15...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow...
The climax of this show is, inevitably, the Cathedrals, Monet's repeated views of the west front of the Gothic Cathedral of Rouen: art about art. Between 1892 and 1895 he produced 30 of them; ten are lined up in Boston. Some critics have shied away from them as pictorial...
As in almost any survey of 20th century culture, World War II is a watershed: now, at the century's end, American graphic designers seem inordinately inspired by elegiac European modernists of the years before the war (early Soviets, Man Ray, Dadaists) and by the tantalizing, electric strangeness of postwar...