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...York, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and L’École des Beaux Arts in Paris. While studying in Paris under the G.I. Bill, Kelly became interested in Surrealism, which would inform his later work. He also befriended fellow artists Matisse, Miro, Giacometti and Braque...
...Match and other magazines, he traveled without bounds, documenting Gandhi's funeral, the Berlin Wall, the deserts of Egypt, and China during the fall of the Kuomintang. Along the way he stopped long enough to take exceptional portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, Picasso, Colette, Matisse, Ezra Pound and Alberto Giacometti. "De qui s'agit-il?" is at the BNF until July 27. It will then tour Europe, starting in Barcelona before moving on to Berlin and Rome. As for the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, its inaugural show offers 90 works by other photographers Cartier-Bresson admires - including Walker Evans, Robert...
...world, and few have made the grade. A small number, like Lithuania's 7-ft. 3-in. Arvydas Sabonis, have made effective use of their height; most, like reedy 7-ft. 7-in. Sudanese Manute Bol and wobbly 7-ft. 7-in. Romanian Gheorghe Muresan, have stuck out like Giacometti statues in a gladiator ring. "Unlike Bol and Muresan," says Memphis Grizzlies coach Hubie Brown, "this guy is strong. And he's got great touch...
Both Magritte and Picasso, and their very different ideas, figure prominently in "Surrealism 1919-1944," the show that's breaking attendance records at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in D?sseldorf. So do Dali, Miró, Ernst, Arp, Tanguy, Giacometti and a host of others belonging to the movement that curator Werner Spies is not afraid to call the most important of the 20th century - "because all the greatest artists of the century were connected with it." With 500 paintings and sculptures, the show documents the whole range of Surrealism's vast output in pursuit of surprise and mystery. It even exhibits...
According to a complaint issued by the U.S. Attorney in New York, Waksal owes $80 million to several banks, and $65 million of the debt is secured by ImClone shares. Private investigators say he used 21 of his most prized artworks--by Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti and others--as collateral for one of his dozens of loans. He has been sued several times--for bouncing checks and for unpaid bills--and has been slapped with numerous tax liens...