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...massacre had reached Paris. There, the Spanish painter Picasso was preparing a monumental commission for his native country's pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Sciences. The outraged artist, never particularly passionate about politics, threw aside his planned work The Studio: the Painter and his Model, and began to create his masterpiece, a monochrome scream of pain and horror...
...over and over like a lovesick schoolboy, her coy note accompanying a photograph: "I found a portrait of myself and as I seem to remember you asked me for one, I am bringing it to you"? to the darker paintings that hint at its end. Maar was the primary model for the Weeping Woman series, eyes like basins pouring their tears for the misery of a world at war. Yet the viewer absorbs the impression that her highly strung temperament, as much as her physical substance, is sitting for the artist...
...matchboxes. The range of his expression is bewildering, from sculpture to ceramics, exquisitely detailed etchings to the brilliant oils of popular imagination. Anne Baldassari, director of the Mus?e Picasso in Paris, has employed her intimate knowledge of both artists?on elegant display in the catalogue?to produce a model of the curator's craft, a delicate fusion of the accessible and the scholarly...
...road into a listed fund, the Macquarie Infrastructure Group, which Macquarie manages for an annual fee of up to 1.25%, depending on its market value. If this fund outperforms its benchmark, Macquarie also pockets a juicy incentive fee of 15% of the profits. "It's a hedge-fund model being applied to infrastructure-asset management," says financial analyst Brian Johnson of JPMorgan Securities...
...recent years, Moss has taken that model global. In 2004 Macquarie bought the Asian securities operations of ING Barings, giving it more muscle to market its key infrastructure funds to retail and institutional investors. "The ING assets gave them a footprint in Asia which they didn't have before," says BT's Chemello. Macquarie subsequently went on a shopping spree. It invested in a South Korean toll-bridge project in Incheon for $64.6 million in 2005. Last December it bought a 40% stake in Taiwan Broadband, a cable operator in Taiwan, for roughly $200 million. A few months ago Macquarie...