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Opus Dei seeks to help its members lead fully Christian lives outside as well as inside the cathedral. By obeying conscientiously the teachings of the Catholic Church in their everyday work-and by influencing their fellow workers to do likewise-members believe they will achieve sanctification...
...National Gallery's painting is of unparalleled historical interest: it would be the first portrait in the history of Western art with a landscape in the background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday activity -in this case, reading a missive." The painted lettering is illegible and thus gives no clue to the man's identity, but the scar is identical to that shown on other known portraits of Philip...
...ancestors of today's plebeian room dividers and office partitions. Their name, byōbu, means "protection from wind." From the 7th century, when the first byōbu were introduced from China, the art of screen painting absorbed the best talents in Japan. Perhaps because, being in everyday domestic use, they were more liable to damage than scrolls, there are comparatively few fine examples in the hands of U.S. collectors. In a show drawing together the best screens in all New York collections, both public and private, the Asia House has mounted an exemplary exhibition of this ancient...
...especially sumptuous kind of decoration. Screen painters like Kaihō Yushō supplied it. Yushō's Fish Nets, with its jagged forms of dark blue sea and gold-leaf land, traversed by the swooping rhythms of the nets strung out to dry on poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness and beauty. Fish Nets alludes to the passage of the seasons by showing reeds at different stages of growth, from spring on the extreme right to winter in the upper left. Elaborate genre subjects occur. A six-fold byōbu by an anonymous...
...large degree, the problem is students. . .not students like the tortoise-shelled racist, but rather, everyday sort of liberal students (and a large helping of radically chic ones, too). The student is plucked out of his own community (which in an ever-increasing number of cases tends to be some place like Short Hills or Greenwich or Passaic), shipped like a piece of prime beef (yes, prime) and dumped in a great tower of learning whose only relationship to the community is either as land developer or slumlord. The student remains entirely isolated from the thousands of real people...