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...Surrealist group, but in the 1920s and '30s he produced some of the scariest distortions of the human body and the most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros and Thanatos ever committed to canvas. He was not a realist painter/reporter, still less anyone's official muralist, and yet Guernica remains the most powerful political image in modern art, rivaled only by some of the Mexican work of Diego Rivera...
...split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch millions of them on tiny microchips, discovered penicillin and the structure of DNA, fought down fascism and communism, bombed Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO...
...space, it's art, it's a loft." Marcus (Thomas Derrah) and Katrin Dowling (Francine Torres, Ma Ubu of "Ubu Rock"), a pair of kooky magazine publishers and the token true hipsters of the production, persuade Alex to photograph their daughter Guernica's sixth birthday party...
Toloui said the committee also asked about his favorite piece of art-work (Picasso's "Guernica") and his favorite ancient Persian king (Xerxes, because of his "clever politics during the Peloponnesian...
While the Fogg has exhibited major Picassos (Guernica in 1941) and even some Impressionists, its curators have traditionally preferred to show things that don't get attention outside of New York. Among other things, Harvard's constituency has come to expect not only expensive loan exhibits from museums world-wide, but also 25 shows or more per year--something public museums simply cannot afford. This is the university museum's niche, observes Cohn, and it has a responsibility to show obscure exhibits...