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Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only one of the great early 20th century French Modernists who hasn't had a major museum show in America in nearly half a century. Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Duchamp and others, yes; but not Leger--a fact that is doubly odd, since no French painter, indeed, no French cultural figure of any kind, was more fascinated and stimulated by American culture, or did more to make a bridge between Paris and New York. Now, with an excellent and tightly focused show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, this has happily changed. Curated...
...think of him as a somewhat stolid, ruminative artist compared with a virtuoso like Picasso. It's true that there's no erotic content in his work, and little manifest lyricism or spontaneity. He painted with the steady determination, from form to closed form, of a silkworm chewing its way across a mulberry leaf. Much of his work is not Cubist at all, if Cubism means fragmentation. It was massively built and integrated, and it buried all traces of its construction process. But it could also be very surprising, and in its insistent reduction of the human form to mechanics...
...Apple Computer: "Think Different" They are on billboards, in magazines and on TV screens: the stark black-and-white photos of great innovators of this century, from Picasso to Amelia Earhart to Martin Luther King, celebrating Apple's unconventional core. They are a brilliant bit of image polishing by a company that has been bruised by recent failures in the marketplace. Steve Jobs really must be back...
...haven't consumed a steaming-hot H & H bagel at three o'clock on a Sunday morning, it may be difficult to understand what all the fuss is about. But just as the art expert will never be able to convey to the color-blind woman at the Picasso exhibit what she's missing, the bagel-lover will have a hard time converting the uninitiated. The allure of the fresh, well-made bagel, alas, defies verbal explanation. And yet despite this handicap, in recent years the bagel has been popularized across the nation, a development which culminated in the Dunkin...
...America's private collections and top museums. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two allegedly looted paintings, one claimed by the Belgian government, the other by an anonymous German owner. Last month the Boston Globe published a lengthy investigation that raised questions about paintings by Degas, Picasso, Cezanne and other masters that now hang in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and in the Fogg Museum of Harvard University. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum as well as Sotheby's and Christie's all possess or, in the case of the auction houses, have...