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...famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir - the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads to the summit and (weather permitting) a spectacular dawn. Mount Fuji, Japan, 3,776 m "He who does not climb Mount Fuji once in his life is a fool; he who climbs it twice is also a fool," so a Japanese saying goes...
...since January, while the cdu's has increased from 37% to 44% over the same period. With national elections 18 months away, the spd are worried that the sputtering economy could stall the re-election campaign before it starts. Schröder can't afford to alienate his union base, and he can't push through more reforms alone - the opposition controls the upper house of parliament. Yet if Schröder doesn't solve the unemployment problem soon, he's the one who may find himself...
...still my favorite of his works." Picasso's oil-on-wood Crucifixion (1930) is a vibrant, surreal retelling of the Calvary story, with cross, nails, lance, weeping women and garments being divided by dice-throwers. Bacon's interpretation, Second Version of Triptych 1944: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, ignores all this action - even the cross - and concentrates instead on three anguished black-and-white figures on an orange-red background...
...Picasso and Bacon used practically identical language to describe their work on crucifixion paintings: Picasso said he had started to draw an interpretation of a macabre early 16th century altarpiece when it became "entirely something else"; Bacon claimed he had the idea of first putting figures around the base of the cross, but then "something happened" and he "just tried to make something else." Bacon also applied his Picasso obsession to his Triptych in Memory of George Dyer (1971), a tribute to his model and lover. You'll see visual echoes of Dyer's shadowy profile in Picasso's nearby...
...Carpenter Center. The artist herself will give an introductory lecture Thursday night at 6 p.m., followed by a reception. Rainer’s career began as a dancer, and in 1962 she founded the influential Judson Dance Theater, which dominated the scene of postmodern dance from its Greenwich Village base for over twenty years...