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Impressions Dior dans un écrin rose
EXPOSITION - La villa Les Rhumbs, la maison d'enfance de Christian Dior, située à Granville sur la côte normande, est une vaste demeure recouverte de crépi rose, entourée d'un parc à l'anglaise. La propriété, installée sur la falaise, surplombe la mer qu from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Thanks to Keynes, classic artworks in the public eye
Much has been written â and said â about the extracurricular activities of the economist John Maynard Keynes over the past week, beginning with comments by Niall Ferguson linking his purported homosexuality with callous disregard for the well-being of fu from Boston.com Read more »
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The Painter in Chief
Idle Chatter George W. Bush’s leaked paintings may seem out of character, but they remind us that he is first and foremost a realist. George W. Bush has finally found WMDs. That's what a commenter on the website Gawker recently noted. But these WMDs are from The Smart Set Read more »
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Painting Painters
Profiles of the artists who've captivated our culture. Cézanne: A Life By Alex Danchev Paul Cézanne -- the Postimpressionist whose vibrant brushstrokes prompted both Matisse and Picasso to dub him "the father of us all" -- was a private figure whose biog from Barnes & Noble Review Read more »
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A Dizzying Artistic Feat
By Karen Wilkin In January 1879, Edgar Degas attended several performances at one of Paris's many circuses of the time, a state-of-the-art, elaborately decorated iron-and-steel arena completed four years earlier in Montmartre, not far from his Rue Fontai from Wall Street Journal Read more »
