| 单词 | postwar |
| 例句 | Whole inheritances were played at gambling tables, along with the easy fortunes of the postwar years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The incident placed Lawrence in a delicate position, for he was then awaiting Groves’s approval of a budget for the Rad Lab’s ambitious postwar program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The postwar joy means that Washington’s theatergoers are making merry on the streets, not inside a theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Stimson’s immediate goal was to obtain Truman’s permission to establish a committee devoted to these postwar issues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What had been lost in the postwar expansion of higher education was the sense that higher education implied privilege. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You might say it would have happened sooner or later anyway, this sliding apart of such a large family, in postwar California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z What the economy consisted of in 1960 was potential—raw materials, human beings, high spirits, some money from the marketing board reserves left over from what the British had taken to rebuild their postwar economy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Rabi stitched together the new lab’s sponsoring consortium, known as Associated Universities, from nine large Eastern research institutions that would have been hard pressed to compete individually in the multimillion-dollar world of postwar high-energy physics.* Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Going After Cacciato was a war story; “Speaking of Courage” was a postwar story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The National Research Council, which had been founded in 1916 as a conduit of government funds to academic institutions but had been hobbled by political infighting and academic mistrust, became revivified in the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That kind of specialization would be the key to managing the increasingly complex nature of aeronautical research in the postwar era. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Mackintosh and his entourage were now entering Levittown proper, the postwar suburban colossus. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Its walls were painted with a postwar bureaucratic gray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The bond between Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer would influence the development of nuclear physics itself, allied strategy in World War II, and civilian and military nuclear policy through the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The episode was a reminder for Bush and Conant that if they did not begin outlining a postwar research program within the Manhattan Project, its members would start taking matters into their own hands. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thus in the immediate postwar years he was especially keen about the possibility of solving the structures of proteins, the most complicated of all molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was the flag of the America to come—the postwar America, united and expanding. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z This sharpened the feelings in the physics community and among the program’s civilian leadership that discussions about the deployment of the bomb and postwar management of its technology should be urgently stepped up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Teller continually disturbed the peace at Los Alamos, where uncertainties about the lab’s role in postwar research already had the staff on edge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The MTA was a lesson in the management of Big Science in the new postwar landscape. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As wartime anxiety gave way to postwar uncertainty, Klan membership flourished. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z To Alvarez, who was chafing in his peacetime harness after spending four postwar years doing basic research, the Soviet bomb represented not merely a crisis but also an opportunity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One edition highlighted a black-initiated petition calling on President Wilson to give Ireland a voice in determining international policy on postwar issues. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And in the postwar years, Elizebeth had a growing number of secrets to hide. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The partners rode the growth of the electric utility industry to wealth and influence in the postwar economic boom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After all, they didn’t know any biology, and so it was best to take their remarks as politeness, even condescension, toward someone opposed to the competitive pace of postwar physics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But the number of houses in smaller neighborhoods had continued to increase, drawing the attention of upwardly mobile families who, like their white counterparts, had a vision of postwar success that included home ownership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In postwar Greece enlargement of the male breast was a common accompaniment of periods of starvation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Black leaders were keenly aware of white Chicago’s postwar desire to return to the days of blacks being nearly invisible in the overall fabric of the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The postwar decade had begun with Sir Arthur Eddington’s spectacular confirmation of Einstein’s theory of relativity at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society in November 1919. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The lack of clarity about their postwar roles as the handover of policy authority to civilian control approached had further diminished morale among the staff members who remained. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But this takes a lot longer than I would like: we are a far cry from picket fences and white curtains, here in our lagoon of postwar mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They also understood that, beyond keeping the program’s scientists mollified, there were other reasons to think about postwar policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bubbles representing the effervescence of American life, of our postwar optimism, of our fizzy, imperial, carbonated drinks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And the postwar reign of the automobile proceeded without much further challenge. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Even in those early postwar years, Harvey distinguished himself with "an excellent knowledge of Russian espionage and Communist activities," according to a former colleague. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, as the postwar boom years quickened, people began coming to the Smokies by car, and motels, restaurants, gas stations, and gift shops popped up to serve them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If Levittown was the epicenter of postwar suburban optimism, my parents were exemplars and beneficiaries of its spirit. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In that optimistic, postwar America, which I caught the tail end of, everybody was the master of his own destiny, so it only followed that my father would try to be the master of his. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Those had been the days back then in the postwar boom of the forties and fifties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The strongest evidence of the progress Langleys women were making in the early postwar years came when one of its most visible female professionals reached the end of the road. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One of the country's least-discussed postwar problems is how frequently combat veterans bring the traumas of war back with them and are incarcerated after returning to their communities. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He arrived in New York in 1961, just as the postwar ebullience of Abstract Expressionism was giving way to more conceptual, theory-driven movements. Brian O’Doherty, Art Critic and (Conceptual) Art Creator, Dies at 94 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s an allegory for British postwar culture — but also a philosophical study of spectacle and death, and a detective story. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, when he was awarded the Medal of Freedom, Berg refused it, part of an increasingly inexplicable pattern of behavior that marked his postwar life. Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Stratiev pursues his central idea with farcical logic and, in the process, paints a vivid picture of life in the postwar eastern bloc. The Roman Bath 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z Supremely elegant in design and pleasant to visit, the fair is dominated by fully-priced modern and postwar art, with a shrinking representation of historic material to appeal to “crossover” buyers. At Frieze Art Week, All Eyes on the Pound 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z First up is Sir Patrick Stewart, who tells the story of – and gets to hang out with – Sir Stirling Moss, Britain's first postwar pro driver. TV highlights 27/12/12 2012-12-21T12:47:37Z It is an unusual hybrid: part courtroom procedural, part double portrait of Kafka and Brod, part account of the postwar construction of Israeli and German national identity. A (Kafkaesque) Legal Battle Over the Author’s Papers Is at the Heart of ‘Kafka’s Last Trial’ 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Costanzo’s attention to period detail helps; it can feel as if you’re watching a lost postwar Italian film about postwar Italy. Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z His immediate postwar career was in the theatre, as an actor and a director, until he joined the CBS network in 1950 as a trainee television director. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z In response to postwar nuclear fears, they were copied onto microfilm, which was placed in a bunker below the Black Forest, where it remains, alongside other culturally significant work. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Touching, funny in parts, full of the excesses postwar America readily supplied, and, hopefully, truthful. Review | How weird is Nick Nolte? The actor bares his soul in a new memoir. 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Like other German films of the immediate postwar era “Harakiri” ducks the anarchic social reality of the time by burrowing into an exotic past. New on DVD, ‘Fritz Lang: The Early Works’ 2012-11-09T23:32:07Z Ligeti resettled in Vienna and became associated at first with the postwar avant-garde in western Europe. When Mahler meets Ligeti: Seattle Symphony to close the season on a powerful note 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Hamish Glen's early stint at the Belgrade tried to bring European classics to a city that became a symbol of postwar regeneration. This week's new theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:23Z Concrete art flourished in South America during the postwar years, a strain of geometric abstraction with utopian ambitions to communicate with a universal audience. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Beal was part of a group of young American artists who rejected the psychologically driven Abstract Expressionist movement of the postwar era in favor of art based on commonly recognizable things and experiences. Jack Beal, Optimistic New Realist Painter, Dies at 82 2013-09-08T00:44:24Z He went on to show at the prestigious André Emmerich Gallery, known for championing artists associated with Color Field painting, a postwar abstract style unrelated to race issues. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z He recalled his father, Paul, talking one night about living through the Depression and World War II and describing the conservative climate of postwar America. When Life Throws Those Curveballs 2011-05-27T17:34:12Z As Ms. Siegel writes, globalism is no good if it “occludes history itself — the relations and conflicts among nations and cultures that shaped the postwar world.” The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The book includes an account of Operation Embarrass, in which British agents blew up ships in Italian ports to deter postwar Jewish refugees from sailing to Palestine, then under British control. UK spies spill secrets in official history of MI6 2010-09-21T15:31:00Z It began with a glance back to the glory days of magic shops in postwar London, when magicians would demonstrate tricks to customers, sometimes 100 times a day. Radio review: Magic People and Places 2010-07-30T06:59:00Z His founding of South Korea’s biggest church was a symbol of the postwar growth of Christianity in the country before that achievement was tainted by corruption and other scandals. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Taken as a whole, the “Peanuts” specials provide an extended tour of the civic religion of postwar life. It’s an Obscure Special, Charlie Brown 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z A virtuoso of obsession and abandonment, Fukase was one of the signal photographers of postwar Japan. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Conservatives believed the left in the United States was more determined to use unconditional surrender to destroy Japanese feudalism than to confront Soviet ambitions — future manna from heaven for postwar redbaiters like Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z They didn't want to inflame the Germans, whose practical and political cooperation the Brits felt they needed during the postwar reconstruction era. 'Night Will Fall' an eye-opener about documenting Nazi camps 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z While much of Worms, with its clunky, blocklike postwar architecture may lack the charm of Mainz, the town made a concerted effort to reconstruct and showcase remnants of its Jewish past. Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Eichinger – and German cinema as a whole – found a new lease of life in the new millennium, as the world discovered a new appetite for postwar German history. Bernd Eichinger: a career in clips 2011-01-28T10:58:00Z This postwar critique was quaint enough when I began pondering “The Conquest of Cool” in 1991. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z If you set to writing plays in the postwar years, it was necessary, or at least expected, to pass through a portal of approval. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z At the core of “Swell” is an excellent show that helpfully sets postwar Los Angeles art against a broader canvas of surfing, beachcombing and car and drug culture. Art Review: Surfing Art at Nyehaus, Petzel and Metro Pictures 2010-07-22T21:52:00Z The court said that the diptych "was never subject to a postwar internal restitution proceeding in the Netherlands" and therefore a claim wouldn't disturb any internal restitution proceedings. Norton Simon Museum dealt legal setback in 'Adam' and 'Eve' case 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “It’s Strauss at his craziest, amusing his listeners and hoping to change the mood of depressed, postwar Vienna,” he said. In This Ballet, a Sweetly Disturbing Confection From Alexei Ratmansky 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z During the postwar era, at least, we might credit an art-academy system that encourages independence, or maybe a society that remains somewhat more rigid than many of its Western counterparts. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z He spent the postwar decades using fiction to work at the knots of politics, passion and betrayal that formed the psyche of the town he knew inside out. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Correcting Past Blunders The role of postwar urban planning in the rise of fundamentalism is well documented. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z “There’s an idea I was raised with in misogynist postwar Britain that feeling and rational thought were opposed,” Anohni said. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In postwar France, playwrights such as Anouilh, Cocteau and Sartre sought a similar alliance. Welcome to Thebes 2010-06-22T23:43:00Z Are creeps, and their defining quality—creepiness—to our age what anxiety was to postwar life? The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Aretha Franklin, a pillar of postwar American music, passed away Thursday morning, at seventy-six. “The Queen of Soul” (After Charles White’s “Folksinger”), by Kadir Nelson 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Wounded Vets Battling Institutional Neglect If war is hell, postwar is purgatory. Movie Review: ‘Happy New Year,’ Directed by K. Lorrel Manning 2012-12-07T02:21:36Z And most likely for Mr. Malick as well, who drew on his own recollections of growing up in postwar Waco. The Oscars: A. O. Scott on the Musical Movement of ?The Tree of Life? 2011-12-31T02:20:50Z You argue that perhaps the most significant failure of the seven presidents you chose to analyze was their lack of preparation regarding the postwar effort — what you call peace-building. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z The music of East Harlem and the South Bronx in the postwar years represents a creative flush at a time of broad progressive consensus and national economic boom. Bringing Tito Puente’s Fire to a New Generation 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He crudely insulted everyone respected in postwar multicultural Dutch society, including Jews and Muslims. Provocateur’s Death Haunts the Dutch 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The second room shows Nomura’s postwar work — still depicting Seattle, but in an abstract style filled with zigzagging lines, possibly representing energy. New book and exhibition aim to give Seattle Japanese American artist Kenjiro Nomura the credit he deserves 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z They considered most postwar Italian literature to be intolerably tedious. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z She meant the postwar years of Konrad Adenauer’s chancellorship and the so-called economic miracle. Abroad: 50 Years After Trial, Eichmann Secrets Live On 2011-05-09T01:15:07Z These lithographs and the postwar world they convey are the subject of a new exhibition at the Towner gallery in Eastbourne. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z “A large part of his collecting has to do with the relationship he has with these artists,” said Brett Gorvy, head of Christie’s postwar and contemporary art department worldwide. Inside Art: Steven Cohen and Douglas Cramer to Sell Pieces at Christie’s 2012-09-20T22:59:26Z Mathilde and the French Red Cross have come to Poland amid the postwar chaos to deal with urgent humanitarian matters: Emergency medical care and immunizations, rescuing orphaned children, resettling stateless refugees and Holocaust survivors. “The Innocents”: A powerful fable of rape and rebirth in a Polish convent 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Collectors who get most of the attention these days tend to spend millions on postwar and contemporary art that they display in their elegant homes, lend to museums or sell at auction. An Obsessive Collector Who’s Drawn Royalty to Brooklyn 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z "He certainly is considered one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st centuries," said Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman of the postwar art department at Christie's auction house in New York. Realist painter Lucian Freud dies at 88 2011-07-22T01:40:04Z In the immediate postwar era, Fred Terman, an electrical engineer who became Stanford’s provost, remade the school in his own image. How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Among internationally minded postwar African artists, he was a pioneer in the melding of naturalism and abstraction, mixing African, Arabic and Western sources with fascinating inventiveness. Ibrahim El-Salahi: ‘Selected Works, 1962-2010’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The story is nevertheless steeped in a sense of postwar gloom, and the dark humor that pervades the book underscores the difficulty of finding meaning in a world torn asunder. ‘The Evenings,’ a Dutch Classic, Arrives in English. It Only Took 70 Years. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But what we've never been able to do is show how this collection, together, tells a particular story about postwar through today in terms of contemporary art. Curator Joanne Heyler sketches out Broad Museum's 2015 opening 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z His decision came after he finished filming Phantom Thread, a dark romance set in 1950s postwar London which took Director Paul Thomas Anderson two years to research and write. Time to explore world after acting, triple Oscar winner Day-Lewis says 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “Children of Hiroshima” is of interest partly because it is among the first films to address a subject that would preoccupy, both directly and obliquely, so much of postwar Japanese cinema. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z I realized that the postwar Korean construct of the orphan was one that was kind of wicked, mischievous or rather shameful, someone who acted like they didn’t get a good family education. Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Located high up in a postwar Upper East Side building, the apartment is a rhapsody of modern furnishings, neutral fabrics, and warm finishes. Essie Weingarten's Sleek Manhattan Apartment 2014-02-13T05:00:00Z “The American way of life in the postwar world was a product of Chicago,” he argues, “from the steel in its new Miesian skyscrapers to its sacks of golden crispy McDonald’s French fries.” Books of The Times: ‘The Third Coast,’ a History of Chicago by Thomas Dyja 2013-05-16T20:11:15Z The postwar Germans were fond of animal metaphors. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Hester’s violent emotions collide not just with postwar English reserve but with Rattigan’s reputation as a playwright. The Long Day Closes: The Passion of Terence Davies 2012-03-23T22:27:48Z Wolfert was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who served up a typical postwar diet of “boiled and broiled” everything. Review | ‘Unforgettable’ pays tribute to ‘the most influential cookbook author you’ve never heard of’ 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z For me, the breakage speaks to the dismantling of an entire postwar American aesthetic. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Clare McAndrew, the author of the report, said the postwar and contemporary sector continued to be the most popular in terms of value. Art Sales on the Rise 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z They later bear witness to major events of postwar Polish history. Holocaust play causes friction between Santa Monica's City Garage and local Polish officials 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z In a 2011 interview, the architect compared one of his atriums to “an internal lung,” a space “designed as a transition from all the congestion and anxiety” of the postwar city. Westin Bonaventure architect John Portman, who aimed to soothe anxiety in the postwar city, dies at 93 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z In the postwar years, French cinema established for the Parisienne a set of tastes, habits, and politics that continue to define her and her largely indistinguishable male counterpart, the Parisien. The French Authors Puncturing the Myth of “French Women Don’t Get Fat” 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z So naturally the postwar period is where the list really expands. Are there any truly great American artists? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z A lingering postwar gulf between Ballard and his parents made him yearn to handle his own fatherhood differently. ‘Miracles of Life’: J.G. Ballard tells his own story 2013-02-28T00:08:09Z And for directors who knew how to expose the emotional instability behind that gorgeous facade, he was the troubled soul of postwar America's moral turmoil—softer than Brando, darker than Dean. Hitchcock's Dark Dreamboat: Farley Granger (1925-2011) 2011-03-30T16:55:00Z From the very first draft of the script, I knew the story began in postwar Yugoslavia and ended at the very beginning of the war, with an epilogue in the present day. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Q. & A.: Mila Turajlic on 'Cinema Komunisto' 2011-04-21T18:50:26Z “Is this what Japan struggled through its whole postwar history to achieve?” asks an Oba-san, late in the novel. Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z "Maggie Thatcher" – two fierce trochees set against the gentler iambic pulse of Britain's postwar welfare state. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z All That Isby James Salter It's the world of white, cultured, self-confident, postwar America; east coast mostly, with a dash of the south. All That Is by James Salter – review 2013-05-11T13:01:01Z This season is set in a time and place, postwar America, that was superficially quite optimistic: “We can do anything.” Noah Hawley Isn’t Done with ‘Fargo’ 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Joan Sutherland, he once said, was the vocal phenomenon of the postwar era. Joan Sutherland: a tribute 2010-10-11T17:15:00Z Her parents, Dolly and Tom Griffiths, originally from Bow, eventually joined the postwar slum clearance diaspora in Dagenham, Essex. Gilda O'Neill obituary 2010-10-06T17:06:00Z Now Phoebe is a single mother living in a postwar culture where superstition reigns. Books of The Times: ‘Archangel,’ by Andrea Barrett 2013-09-02T21:41:52Z What was more, the gallery had been opened by Clement Attlee in 1950 as part of the Labour party's postwar commitment to ensuring popular appreciation of the arts as part of a social democratic state. Don't patronise urban communities – give them the William Morris Gallery 2013-06-06T08:00:01Z Each demolition angers me because we systematically undervalue our architectural heritage of all ages—these buildings span the twentieth century—but particularly postwar construction. Saving Buildings with Social Media 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Last year, with Britain’s referendum on European Union membership and the United States’ presidential election creating uncertainty, owners of the world’s most valuable postwar and contemporary art were more reluctant to sell at auction. Auction Sales Down at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, in a Challenging 2016 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Lincoln Center advertised itself as the cultural model for postwar urban redevelopment. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “Guatemala was the first place where the new postwar model of corporate colonialism was implemented,” he said. The border as muse: Two PST art shows look at flow of humanity between the U.S. and Mexico 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Like Mitchell’s postwar southerners, North Koreans know about living through terrible times. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z Essex was a magnet for idealists of one sort or another well into the postwar years. Rewind TV: Wonders of Life; Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex; Derek – review 2013-02-02T22:45:01Z In the latter years of the war and in the immediate postwar period, Churchill expanded the ambit and meaning of that concept to far-reaching effect. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In the book, she argued for the importance of the Bay Area to early postwar art movements, especially Abstract Expressionism, a view that has gained traction in recent decades. Mary Fuller McChesney, Bay Area Artist and Historian, Dies at 99 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z And it was the postwar lack of food, he believes, that made him a pint-sized man, and inspired him to compensate by cutting his clothes big and baggy. Yohji Yamamoto: the people's designer who cuts loose from the catwalk 2011-03-14T17:44:24Z The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy is one of the great postwar English fantasies. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z “In the postwar years, there seemed to be only this choice, between hope and despair, between a historically untenable optimism and a well-justified skepticism that was easily apt to turn into nihilism,” he said. Strange Lands Series Celebrates Soviet-Era Sci-Fi Films 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z She found eerie similarities between the response of the first generations of postwar Germans to their evil past and the response of many Americans, particularly Southerners, to theirs. Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z “Jack” is a love story set in postwar St. Louis, where he went after he left Gilead. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z In interviews for the archivist Jeff Gold’s recent book, “Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s,” Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins each remembered the city’s postwar jazz clubs as a kind of oasis. Where Jazz Lives Now 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z And “Black Watch” plunges you into their wartime and postwar reality, their anger and vulnerability. Staging war, in the gritty, eloquent “Black Watch” 2013-04-27T00:41:05Z Boulez believed that it was up to him and his generation of postwar avant-gardists to unleash the musical revolution that Schoenberg's 12-tone system implied. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z With his memories of big beasts of the postwar stage like Scofield, Dexter and Guiness, Callow's default mode is nostalgia – when the scale of performance seemed more generous, emotions throbbier, gossip fruitier. Stage to page: do books about theatre ever live up to the real thing? 2011-02-24T13:11:19Z Yet “The Language of Houses” turns out to be a disappointment — in the book’s parlance, a postwar brick number with structural issues and dated decor. ‘The Language of Houses’ by Alison Lurie often speaks in paper-thin generalities Either way, it’s a heartbreaking pieta, communicating in one agonizing image how, in the 1970s, the British school system systematically failed an entire postwar generation, especially children of African and Caribbean descent. Perspective | The unbreakable gaze of Steve McQueen: ‘I’m asking you, please, look’ 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z In this novel set in the postwar Balkans after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, there is no Sarajevo, Pristina or Belgrade - coordinates that might be familiar to the average American reader. Obreht makes powerful debut with `Tiger's Wife' 2011-03-11T21:50:11Z As he grew up, in postwar Cos Cob, Conn., the young Murphy enjoyed the company of his father’s merry colleagues, most of whom were clustered in the surrounding area. The Comic Strip’s Heyday in ‘Cartoon County’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z In keeping with the midcentury building, the drinks will skew strong and dry, in the postwar style. First Glance at the New Bar in the Old Four Seasons Space 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z “It’s about sensuality and skin — but not nudity,” said Ms. Burton, explaining that the nubile postwar pinup girls drawn by Alberto Vargas were an inspiration. Fashion Review: A Game of Checkers 2012-10-04T07:21:21Z How solid this show is, full of the joy and anxiety of postwar Manhattan, rich with diner-side sketches and watercolors from dark Greenwich Village nights of the soul. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Concrete poetry's roots in Futurism and Dada are nicely illustrated here, and the show asserts an affinity between the clever concision of these postwar works and the strategies of today's texts and tweets. Turning rhyme for the ears into rhythm for the eyes: It's 'Concrete Poetry' at the Getty 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The auction house was ultimately pleased by what Brett Gorvy, Christie’s worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art, described as “strong but deliberate buying.” Christie’s Finds Relief in Stable Prices, and a Basquiat Sale 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Fermi continued to contribute original scientific work throughout the war and postwar at the University of Chicago. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z In the book, Dayton, formerly seen as a birthplace of innovation and aviation, is now a symbol of postwar boom and bust, a city fallen from grace. What Is Amazon Doing to Our Country? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Her place in the history of postwar painting awaits definition. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “L’Écume des Jours” is often seen as a quintessentially postwar book, flush with the sense of woozy, magical freedom that filled Paris after the liberation put an end to the worst years of privation. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Anna is haunting a gray, transitory landscape that is itself haunted by the memories of World War II. As much as anything, “Anna” evokes the feelings of a Jew traveling alone in postwar Germany. In ‘Les Rendez-vous d’Anna,’ Many Meetings but No Connections 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Jähner inevitably explores the postwar economic situation, too, showing how strictly controlled ration cards yielded a flourishing black market. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z This form of development wants nothing to do with the superficial community-mindedness of the postwar suburb, and the reason the giant house looks the way it does is to inform you of this. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Jähner sets out to tell the tumultuous story of the postwar decade in all of its contradictions, conveying the breadth of experiences amid the “extreme challenges” the German people faced. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z The plan from the beginning seemed to be to contrast the creamy surfaces of the American postwar consumerist miracle and the cracks just below the surface, the distance between the promise and the reality. 'Mad Men' open for business again in Part 2 of final season 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Bill Cunningham delights in yanking back the curtain on the vicious rituals of copying that infiltrated the Paris salons of the postwar years. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Reviewing the film in The New York Times, A. O. Scott wrote that Ms. Hoss “embodies Mr. Petzold’s fluctuating idea of postwar Germany itself: vain, guilty, vulnerable, confused.” Refugee Influx in Germany Sets Off a Brooding Cultural Debate 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z While it’s not surprising that housing starts flourished along with a rapidly growing city, what strikes a visitor now is how little the accompanying boom owed to structural archetypes then dominating postwar development back East. In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Brett Gorvy, who runs Christie’s postwar and contemporary-art department worldwide, said Klein’s early sponges — in which the porous surface is absorbed in the artist’s signature ultramarine blue — are “becoming rarer and rarer.” Inside Art: Piero Planned for the Frick; Yves Klein and Picasso for Sale 2012-09-27T22:29:03Z Although movie industry conservatives began wielding power in the 1920s, the Hollywood right did not emerge as a major force in American politics until after the postwar era. Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z Others regarded Mr. Hollander as one of the most powerful voices and daring imaginations in postwar American poetry. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z The only artist who really transcended this — in a style that began to form before the war — was Alberto Giacometti, whose eaten-away figures remain the quintessential representations of postwar angst and the existential condition. Critic’s Notebook: The Effort to Resurrect the Sculptor Germaine Richier 2014-03-20T21:41:29Z A Korean who became famous as part of the postwar dansaekhwa movement, Yun spent decades, before he died in 2007, painting simple stripes and blocks with thin, overlapping layers of burnt umber and ultramarine. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z By this point, the man who had slipped out of Baltimore with borrowed freedom papers was poised to play a central role in America’s postwar transformation. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Encouraged by veteran Los Angeles art dealer Tobey Moss, whose Beverly Boulevard gallery has specialized in art from the 1920s forward, Buck rapidly moved into more adventurous early Modernist and postwar California art. A storied art collection shrouded in mystery will anchor new UC Irvine museum 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z "It was a large party for artists and people who were part of a hip downtown group having fun," said Christie's postwar and contemporary art expert Brett Gorvy. Lichtenstein work, won for $10, could fetch $1M 2011-03-30T21:16:04Z “We are looking for a dialogue in the postwar art of America and Europe.” Commerce Meets Culture at Art Basel 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But the postwar atmosphere is vivid: a searching landscape of broken and delusional men. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z These two sales were part of a record-breaking, $852.9 million night at Christie’s New York, setting the all-time high for postwar and contemporary art sales. Two Warhol Portraits Sell for Over $150 Million 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Set in a postwar American suburb, the movies reveal an ache for the past and not just through the grumblings of old-fashioned playthings that compete for the attention of Andy, their growing boy-owner. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Not only had he acted “decently,” he had passed a postwar “severe examination of his political behavior” and gotten a certificate of good conduct to boot. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z Still, for the average Briton, life seemed sweet — or at least diverting — a far cry from the years of gray, postwar deprivation and slow recovery. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Town and Country takes us to postwar Britain and the musical worlds of Noël Coward and Percy Grainger. Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures – review 2012-05-23T17:09:58Z Which makes the movie less an anomaly than a classic example of just the kind of movie Hollywood used to make about racism and other social ills in postwar America. Perspective | Theaters are filled with films telling black stories. It’s about time. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z On both projects, the format was chosen to mimic photographic images from the 1940s and ’50s, and the grittiness of postwar America. Happy 100th Birthday, 16-Millimeter Film 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Alejandro is cousin both to the masterless swordsmen of Japanese cinema and to the lone gunslingers of the postwar Hollywood western. Review: ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Blends War Movie and Western 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z I specifically asked about actions based on the experience of postwar Germany, Italy and Japan. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z These works made him something of a star in Tokyo’s small, determined postwar art world, an experience he did not enjoy. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Back when we were still living in the shadow of the postwar era, the rules were stricter and more religiously observed; you weren’t supposed to challenge time-honored authority. Language Rules for the Digital Age 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z For its insights into American theater in the postwar era, Mr. Lahr’s biography has been compared to Kazan’s autobiography, “A Life,” but they are not in the same league. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z B.D.S. is particularly sensitive in Germany, where protecting Israel is a cornerstone of its postwar foreign policy. New Director Sees Berlin’s Jewish Museum as a Place for Debate 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z In a challenging postwar landscape, Coley produced “a fantastic gift to the British cycling public, and the world,” according to Jones. To the lighthouse – one of the UK’s toughest bike rides 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “Ida” revisits the silent years of the postwar Communist era, when the Holocaust was rarely discussed in Poland, and the country’s Jewish history was played down. ‘Ida’ and ‘The German Doctor’ Reframe a Familiar Narrative 2014-04-25T18:55:18Z And “Exhibit Piece” whacks at the seductions of America’s postwar largesse: A 22nd-century museum curator finds a rip in space-time and decides to live in his exhibit of the late 20th century. Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z They include Lee & Sons of Hong Kong, with a focus on Asian sculptures; Dewitt of Geneva, specializing in clocks; and the postwar and Pop Art gallery Whitford Fine Art of London. Out With the Old, and in With La Biennale Paris 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The Mitchell was one of 82 lots of postwar and contemporary art that were estimated to raise at least $495 million. Christie’s Has Art World’s First $1 Billion Week 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z That’s when American kitchens got considerably kitschier — think novelty cookie jars — and postwar prosperity meant more consumer spending on household goods. Corn on the cob is simple food. Why are there so many gadgets to help us eat it? 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The immediate postwar years may be best remembered for rationing and queues, but as the nation geared up for reconstruction, British design was coming into its own. Design Research Unit: the firm that branded Britain 2010-10-12T14:47:00Z The work here concentrates on the postwar period. The Met Museum Sees More Clay in Its Future 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Official support for Israel is a nonnegotiable position in postwar Germany. Unwelcome Sound on Germany’s Stages: Musicians Who Boycott Israel 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Oliver Cox in the 1950s For the leaders of the postwar architectural generation, the goals seemed clear and compelling. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z Filled with powerful archival images, the book also sensitively describes the historical context: the players in World War II, the effects of radiation sickness and the details of postwar American occupation of Japan. The best children’s and young adult books this month 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet the enduring interest of 1922 lies in the brilliance, madness, beauty, comedy and devastation with which writers that year fused the fragments of the ages to a noisily vapid postwar present. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z You would have thought that a sophisticated postwar Midwestern city would absorb this “scandal” without a murmur, but no, his life is shattered. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Chinese officials were also intrigued by the way Ichiro Ogimura, known as Ogi, became a Japanese good will ambassador in England despite lingering postwar bitterness, by sheer dint of his prowess and sportsmanship. Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin 2014-01-02T22:23:15Z It serves up burnished postwar glamour while resurfacing the stories and bodies sacrificed to maintain the movies’ homogeneous sheen — the artists of color, the closeted executives, the overlooked women. Review: ‘Hollywood’ Gives Movie History a Sudsy Rewrite 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But his work was also steeped in various figurative and avant-garde traditions of postwar European art. Franz West, Influential Sculptor, Dies at 65 2012-07-27T02:56:48Z Nearly 30 years after East and West Germany were reunited, there is a longing here for an identity that goes beyond the Holocaust and World War II, postwar division, reconstruction and reunification. A New Museum Opens Old Wounds in Germany 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z It was to Soho in the postwar years "that people came to get away from Britain for a few hours". Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Whereas he and other postwar intellectuals feared the conformist power of the crowd, we now fear the aberrant individual or individuals lurking in the crowd. Seeking Out Peer Pressure 2013-05-03T23:12:03Z The influential group New York Intellectuals evolved out of those prewar and postwar debates. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Craig Kauffman, Sculptor in Plastic, Dies at 78 2010-05-15T04:10:00Z Emre, a professor of English at Oxford, wrote a previous book on the surge of readers in postwar America, and she knows that a story is inextricable from how it’s told. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Tennessee Williams is on his wish list, along with Shakespeare and the angry young men of postwar Britain. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Set in an alternate postwar England of crumbling manors, bloody surgical theaters and hidden crypts, it would be easy to sink into the delicious gloom. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z From today’s perspective, the movie says more about postwar attitudes to gender than the human mind, but The Three Faces of Eve was based on a real case study: a woman named Chris Costner Sizemore. From Split to Psycho: why cinema fails dissociative identity disorder 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “But that’s partly what the play’s about, too: the shift from the grim days of the ’50s and the postwar poverty to this brighter new world.” You’ve Got the Wrong Idea About Martin McDonagh 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The price for the annotated manuscript for "Like a Rolling Stone," considered one of the most influential songs in postwar music, reached its high pre-sale estimate. Bob Dylan lyrics for 'Like a Rolling Stone' sell for $2 million 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z And while it can sometimes feel like a rote regurgitation of postwar culture and its miseries, the ambiguous ending is something of a departure from those clichés. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In a postwar interview, Elias discussed how drunken SS troops would often burst into the barracks late at night. How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z But the weapon achieved its greatest fame in the postwar West. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The Glenstone Museum was created by Mitchell and Emily Wei Rales to house their private collection of postwar art, considered one of the world’s best. Contractor Sues Glenstone Museum Foundation for $24 Million 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The daughter of a dentist and a Polish pilot who flew with Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II, Ms. Kulczyk was raised in postwar Communist Poland. A Polish Collector’s Passion for Art and Dance 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The Basquiat was the top seller at the first in London’s weeklong series of postwar and contemporary art auctions. ArtsBeat: Basquiat Painting Draws Top Price at Christie’s 2013-06-25T23:22:55Z And it's salutary to be reminded that McGrath was one of our finest postwar political dramatists. Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun – review 2012-05-28T11:08:05Z First, such dismissals erase the considerable debt Western Modernism owes to African and Oceanic art, as well as the critical influence of Hindu and Buddhist spirituality on the postwar American avant-garde. Firebrands Who Forged a New Art for a New India 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But, at the age of 68, she is a senior, just a little younger than Coco Chanel when she made her postwar comeback in 1954. Jil Sander Remodels for Her Comeback 2012-06-18T12:40:06Z The acquisition seemingly ties up one of the great shaggy-dog footnotes of postwar American letters. Long-Lost Letter to Jack Kerouac Reaches Its Final Destination 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Now, hoping to capitalize on a market that’s still booming, Mr. Gouzer is creating his own separate auction as a kickoff to the frenetic week of spring postwar and contemporary art sales. A Christie’s Contemporary Art Auction With an Edge 2014-03-26T15:00:13Z If at times she seems to be experiencing post-traumatic stress, elsewhere her self-destruction seems entirely sane: symbolic of the generation of women who were forced to abandon their ambitions postwar. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z In the postwar decades, “culture” was associated with the quest for personal growth: even if you rejected “establishment” culture, you could turn to “the counterculture.” The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Yes, now I realise I have got to No 46 already, we are all the children of postwar Britain. Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 2013-04-29T16:53:01Z With calm reassurance, he shepherded America through the Depression and World War II, then became a symbol of postwar domestic stability. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z That sounds like standard neorealism, and Mr. Sembène’s affinities with postwar Italian cinema are apparent, even if they are probably less a matter of influence than of shared ideological and aesthetic impulses. Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Black Girl’ Turns 50 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The comparatively subdued holidays of Showa Day and Constitution Memorial Day — designed to encourage reflection on Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s postwar constitutional order, respectively — are nonetheless draws for history buffs. Celebrating ‘Platinum Week’ in Japan 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z “Buffet, along with Picasso, was seen as a titan of the postwar period,” Mr. Vincze of Christie’s said. Buffet: A Life of Success, Rejection and Now a Celebration 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The fourth-floor galleries, which usually house the permanent collection, postwar division, have never looked better. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Silence hung over all of this in postwar Germany. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “She explained how his work was a departure from all the overdone postwar stuff,” Mr. Yakobosky said. Pierre Cardin: He Dressed Jane Jetson and Lady Gaga 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z But while the script and art direction summoned the pinched dreams of postwar Britain, neither was capable of doing much with the dramatic inertia of the source material. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z It’s a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru,” about a paper-pushing bureaucrat in postwar Japan roused out of his paralyzing inertia in the final months of his life. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z With Calder mobiles selling for three times their estimates and a Warhol “Flowers” painting left unsold, Tuesday night’s auction of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s New York only deepened uncertainty about the art market. Mixed Night in ‘Strange’ Christie’s Contemporary and Postwar Sale 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Like many other Latin American architects in the postwar period, he faced the challenge of designing for a city that was racing to modernize. Teodoro González de León, Evocative Mexican Architect, Dies at 90 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z First at Mercury Records and then at Columbia, he helped define American popular music in the postwar, pre-rock era, carefully matching singers with songs and choosing often unorthodox but almost always catchy instrumental accompaniment. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z For nearly a decade, he has been mounting sharp-focus shows of historical works by prominent American postwar artists in his jewel-box gallery on the Upper East Side. Art Review: Rauschenberg, Before Fame Struck 2014-05-08T20:35:43Z There Lane formulated and tested hundreds of different glazes, gaining experience and a body of knowledge that few other postwar artist-potters possessed. They Hold Weeds, and an Artist’s Sublime Vision 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Poundstone dynamics -- the "dinosaur" CIA veteran and the intelligence agent bringing Neo-Con ideology to the Middle East with little thought for the actual needs of a postwar nation -- represent a dramatic standoff. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z Sykes was one of the finest comedy writers of the postwar years. Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:46:45Z She assumed her mother's maiden name as her professional identity, superimposing an autonomous, self-determined postwar life upon one prescribed by tradition. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Brett Gorvy, Christie’s international head of postwar and contemporary art, said Warhol loved repetition and used it “both as a way of creating a narrative . . . and a way of really commenting on society.” Warhol’s Brando, Elvis could bring $130 million at auction Where Antonioni’s film evoked the metaphysical malaise of Italy’s leisure class in that country’s postwar boom, “About Elly” depicts the strains between strict Islamic traditions and modernism within Iran’s affluent, sophisticated middle class. Review: In ‘About Elly,’ a Middle Class Enjoying Itself Is Engulfed in Change 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The city is a postwar boomtown of sorts, with luxury high-rises popping up in every other neighborhood and cranes in primary colors punctuating the skyline. The Medieval Monasteries of Kosovo 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard’s elegant, cerebral, Olivier Award-winning saga follows generations of a comfortably assimilated Jewish family in Vienna from the end of the 19th century through the rise of the Nazis to a devastated postwar reckoning. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The market has fluctuated for postwar Italian art, with plateauing prices for minimalist artists like Piero Manzoni, known for his folded white abstracts, and Lucio Fontana, who made slashed canvases his signature. Art Market, Hoping the Good Times Keep Rolling, Prepares for N.Y. Sales 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z That Stoppard’s haunting ode to the vanished Viennese Jewish world should play alongside Bernhard’s incendiary indictment of postwar Austrian repression and hypocrisy feels appropriate, in a sly and mischievous way. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z His comparison of the postwar occupations of Japan and Iraq is devastating. 'Cultures of War': World War II vs. the 'war on terror' 2010-09-15T23:43:00Z When he was released, he returned to his shop and ushered it into the postwar era. The Butcher Shop Keeping Old World Delicacies Alive 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The bride’s doctoral work focuses on testimony, historiography, and storytelling in postwar Italy. Julia Pucci, Matthew Dudley 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Branding the long postwar era as an epoch of relative peace is disingenuous, and not just because it deflects attention from the significant death and agony that actually did occur and still does. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Of course, “R&B in DC” also tells the story of a city, namely of Black life in segregated, postwar, forever-in-flux Washington. Perspective | With ‘R&B in DC 1940-1960,’ historian Jay Bruder reacquaints us with the sounds of a vanished Washington 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The neighborhoods were full of old factories that had emptied out in the postwar years; they had room for art, if not crown molding and prewar charm. Finding Yoko Ono’s New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The house that established Marcel Breuer as a leading architect of the postwar period is gone, demolished earlier this month by its current owners after preservationists attempted to save the building. Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “That was your quintessential very bright, beautiful Rothko, which brought to the table this feeding frenzy of top collectors from different countries,” said Brett Gorvy, chairman of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s. Mark Rothko’s Dark Palette Illuminated 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The aim was to make British art available to people in the dark postwar era. Online gallery will open forgotten art to public view 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z But then, in the postwar, palette-cleansing neoclassicism of composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, perhaps Rachmaninov saw new possibilities. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z Otherwise, the postwar sketches and watercolours were done chiefly on our family holidays – in France, Switzerland and Italy, where the Alps and the Dolomites often furnish the backdrop. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z In advance of two exhibitions — “Tokyo 1955-1970” at MoMA starting in November, and “Gutai: Splendid Playground” beginning in February at the Guggenheim — it signals an overdue exploration of Japanese postwar culture. Art Review: ‘Requiem for the Sun: Art of Mono-ha’ at Gladstone Gallery 2012-07-19T22:34:06Z But her earlier efforts fascinate as well, linking up with an astonishing variety of postwar art movements: Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel and Viennese Actionism, to name a few. Art Review: ‘Maria Lassnig’ Celebrates the Artist at MoMA PS1 2014-03-27T21:52:41Z Mr. Firestone also has a gallery in Manhattan, and said he specializes in “postwar American artists, with strong emphasis on people who were missed or slighted, like Joe Overstreet and Mimi Gross.” Eastward, Ho! Even Art Is Leaving for the Hamptons 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z British troops stationed in Japan as part of occupation forces in the same postwar period introduced local chefs to curry powder and roux-like sauces. Chow mein and chips: a brief history of the British Chinese takeaway 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z She is the last queen of the postwar Hollywood era. Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z A fabulous, richly comic voice, exploring the realities of postwar immigration. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z It was generous and strong, a vivid, almost evangelical statement of postwar American optimism. Stanley Donen: a Hollywood blueblood treasured for Singin' in the Rain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z As Eli, 82, became more involved, the couple concentrated on postwar and contemporary art, which for years they have lent to museums. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z When it comes to postwar art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art rarely lets you breathe easy for long. At the Met Museum, an Abstract Show That Falls Short of Epic 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The deindustrialization of the postwar years became flagrant on the street as the eighties progressed. What Public Life Used to Look Like in San Francisco’s Mission District 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The results are meant to evoke the freelance activities — and improving skill set — of an anonymous postwar photographer who frequented crime scenes and sports events; accepted portrait, newspaper and advertising assignments; and documented magic tricks. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z In the immediate postwar era, he says, corporate moguls accepted responsibility for their communities and workers. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z This exhibition also includes work by Ms. Albers and Ms. Hicks, and offers a separate, sometimes overlapping narrative of postwar design networks that first brought these weaving women — and one man, Angelo Testa — together. Transformed by Mexico, Six Women Broke Barriers Between Art and Design 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z It's also no accident that many of the best postwar productions came from the old Soviet bloc where the play acquired the power of subversive metaphor. Review: Hamlet 2010-09-23T11:41:00Z Pollock is, in essence, the Modern’s postwar Picasso and, not surprising, its holdings are unsurpassed. Review: Drips, Dropped: Pollock and His Impact 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z While the film covers many decades, its soundtrack is grounded in an easy-listening style that was forged postwar and remained unchanged, fostered by singers like Vale and orchestrators like Percy Faith. Who Is Jerry Vale and Why Does Martin Scorsese Love Him So? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In Yiddish Author’s Papers, Potential Gold Chaim Grade was the other great postwar Yiddish writer, the one few people outside of scholarly circles has ever heard of. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z And the program continues into the postwar years, when people like Clara Barton made after-the-fact efforts to find remains and graves and rebury the dead closer to home or in newly created national cemeteries. Television Review: ‘Death and the Civil War,’ by Ric Burns, on PBS 2012-09-17T22:07:48Z Built in 1914, the Volksbühne made its reputation as a center for theatrically daring, sometimes politically subversive performance in East Berlin, when the city was divided in the postwar years. Plans for Volksbühne Theater Cause Worry About Berlin’s Artistic Direction 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z In this novel, which ends happily all round, the postwar resolutions, the fates of his characters, are dealt with not so much simply as perfunctorily. An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo 2010-07-15T23:05:00Z Many found employment in the auto industry, and in 1960, at the height of the immigration wave and the postwar economic boom in Italy, the Automobile Museum opened in its current location. In a Fading Industrial Past, a Chance for a Rich Future 2011-03-21T12:35:04Z Vronsky has an alarming theory about the “enormous glut” of American serial murderers who came of age during World War II and the postwar baby boom. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The end of Act II, for instance, was exaggerated to the last degree, pointing forward from Strauss’s pre-World War I confection to the dark sarcasm of Ravel’s postwar “La Valse.” Review: A Delicious ‘Rosenkavalier’ in Boston 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z It's a story set in the early days of postwar Britain. Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami – review 2012-11-23T22:55:04Z In contrast, Weeks took Sam from sweetly comic relief to the more sober embodiment of postwar reality. A case for an Emmy (or more) for 'Foyle's War' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Christie's estimates its postwar and contemporary art auction will total more than $600 million, the highest pre-sale estimate ever for any single sale. Expectations high for record spending at New York art auctions 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Only a few months before Davis’s recital, the composer Arnold Schoenberg, who was Jewish, shared a scathing critique of the city’s postwar racial politics. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This new enthusiasm for "contemporary" gradually percolated through from public spaces into postwar British homes. Rosamind Julius obituary 2010-07-01T17:47:00Z “We are not known for our postwar European art and have no work to contextualize it with.” Inside Art: Piero Planned for the Frick; Yves Klein and Picasso for Sale 2012-09-27T22:29:03Z It represented a bold bid to mark L.A.'s dynamic postwar cultural emergence. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z African Americans' growing demand for equal rights, along with the massive postwar migration of rural Southerners to urban areas, laid bare the Southern peach industry's dependence on a labor system that relied on systemic discrimination. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z "Going Into the City" is a treat for those who care about that particular history, or more broadly about postwar Left cultural politics, or Greenwich Village before the loosening of rent control. 'Going Into the City,' rock critic Robert Christgau's back pages 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Noguchi’s well-known postwar work for the furniture design companies Herman Miller and Knoll — including his prism table, rocking stool and cylindrical lamp — are given plenty of space. Art Review: The Far-Ranging Artistic Alliances That Shaped a Sculptor 2010-12-16T23:45:12Z But her paintings and drawings reveal a more general fascination with things unknown or inexplicable, one she shares with early-20th-century Surrealist artists and the postwar Abstract Expressionists who explored Jungian psychology. For Karla Knight, Paranormal Is Normal 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The novel revisits each character roughly every 15 years, giving a window into postwar London throughout the decades. 15 New Books to Watch For in May 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s not Dior, by the way, but it nonetheless effortlessly evokes a certain postwar femme fatale glamour, which is duly undermined by the opossum in line three. Review: In ‘The Dressmaker,’ a Femme Fatale Wants Vengeance 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z These structures were conceived as radical experiments in mass production for an increasingly dense and urban postwar society. Architecture Review: One Madison Park Hints at a Better Design Future 2010-06-28T22:33:00Z Though the exhibition rotates from time to time, the focus is always on the theatrical postwar Italian movement known as Arte Povera. Summer Art Trek: Gallery Hopping in the Hudson Valley 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Rather than fading from the international scene after World War II, the United Kingdom influenced and propped up an uncertain United States, Leebaert argues in this re-envisioning of the postwar historical consensus. New in Paperback: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’ and ‘The Shades’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z In Hamburg she helped found the newspaper Die Zeit, became a prominent figure in liberal postwar circles and stood as a symbol of decency among the Prussian aristocracy under Hitler. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z Nonetheless, the evening sales of postwar and contemporary art raised $981 million, a 6.6 percent increase on the equivalent sales last May. Contemporary Art Evening Sales Bring $981 Million, Led by Koons and KAWS 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Then the many postwar years when, having written a book about his experiences, he no longer spoke of them, even as he taught for decades in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Opening Old Wounds as the Man Who Warned About the Holocaust 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Brett Gorvy, Christie’s worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art, said that Monday’s “Muse” sale had attracted both “the hard-core collector base and new buyers looking for a masterpiece.” With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It includes postcards and stills from the landmark's Victorian heyday and postwar boom years, as well as photos of a previous fire. Hastings pier: a history in clips 2010-10-05T12:26:00Z With songs by Denis King, it is much more than a star vehicle for Simon Russell Beale: it offers a heady mix of personal memoir, musical parody and jaundiced account of postwar colonial politics. Privates on Parade – review 2012-12-10T23:00:01Z The textbooks all tell us that postwar British theatre, prior to the Royal Court revolution of the mid-1950s, was as arid as the Gobi desert. Black Chiffon ? review 2011-01-18T22:01:01Z The palette in these postwar paintings is a uniform one of blue, gray, white and green. Alfred Sisley: The Unheralded Impressionist 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z After marrying industrial designer Arnold Arnold and giving birth to a son, she lived the life of a postwar Long Island wife and mother until undergoing her first and only formal instruction in photography. Who was Eve Arnold? The woman behind some iconic photographs 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Throughout the postwar years he expressed no remorse and either remained oblivious to, or rationalized, the enormity of his crimes. How Did Josef Mengele Become the Evil Doctor of Auschwitz? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z But to listen to Molly's quintessentially English postwar blues was to be reminded that melancholy meditations on the fragile nature of human happiness are not the sole domain of sensitive young men with guitars. Nick Drake: in search of his mother, Molly 2013-03-22T07:00:10Z Being the son of a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a scion of a well-connected European family, Pryce-Jones has known everyone in the postwar literary firmament, including W.H. Review | When the world was too much with me, here’s what I read for some R&R 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z His art – and he would insist his soul – was rooted in Catalonia, but also in surrealism, and in postwar American painting. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z WED Humanities Washington hosts conversation about the rise of consumerism in postwar America and its impact on our national well-being, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2012-03-28T23:08:04Z King, Rush is one of the last remaining Black blues musicians who experienced the horror of Jim Crow-era racism and participated, however tangentially, in the genre’s postwar flowering. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z "I have lived through very difficult times," said Penderecki, reflecting on the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War Two, the Holocaust and postwar communist oppression. Composer Penderecki is witness to history of native Poland 2014-02-14T20:28:17Z To research her book, Neiman read a variety of German writings from the postwar period: philosophy books, prisoner-of-war memoirs, best-selling novels. What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Most of the movie is set in postwar London and is the story of a midlife crisis. “Christopher Robin,” Reviewed: Disney’s Pleasantly Abrasive New Spin on Winnie-the-Pooh 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Jähner trains his focus on such details because it’s through them that so much of the real transformation in postwar Germany first came about. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Adrift in the tumult of postwar Europe, the teenage Hirsch eventually was adopted by a Canadian family in Winnipeg, where his career in the theater eventually took off. Critic’s Notebook: Christopher Plummer and John Hirsch Solo Shows at Stratford 2012-08-21T21:46:20Z Lest we forget, Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart Stafford-Clark is one of British theatre's greatest postwar directors. Max Stafford-Clark: by hook or by crook 2010-09-05T20:30:00Z Some of L.A.’s postwar modernist houses were supposed to make this dream more attainable. Lautner fans, be warned: Catherine Opie's 'The Modernist' will play like a horror movie 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The book is sprinkled, too, with recipes that chart her unbelieving first few years in postwar England, a culture which still thought that olive oil was something you bought from the chemist to treat earache. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Behind Dylan and his band, a massive video screen played old footage of train yards, steel foundries, oil derricks — evidence of postwar progress, sepia-toned and pixelated, decayed in two separate eras. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, in the atmosphere of general paranoia that pervaded the postwar era, the CIA maintained an important role in manipulating the developing drug culture. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z Some individuals and institutions take a beating — Dyja calls the postwar University of Chicago “a never-never land for maladjusted teenage geniuses” — but Dyja’s love for the city that was and could have been is unmistakable. ‘The Third Coast’: Chicago’s chapters in the book of American culture 2013-04-25T20:47:58Z Van Morrison is one of the most revered singers and songwriters of the postwar pop music era, which means there’s no shortage of singers eager to collaborate with him. Van Morrison on 'Re-Working the Catalogue' with an all-star lineup 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z In particular, it demonstrates once again that where postwar art is concerned, the East Coast still has much to learn about the West. Art Review: Surfing Art at Nyehaus, Petzel and Metro Pictures 2010-07-22T21:52:00Z “The Hunger Games” is a dystopian tale set in a postwar North America divided into 13 districts; “Divergent” is a dystopian tale set in postwar Chicago divided into five factions. Movie Review: In ‘Divergent,’ Jolted Awake by Fear and Romance 2014-03-20T14:31:38Z Above all, he uses the school, whose tutors include a Russian-Jewish emigre, a sensitive Forsterian aesthete and a down-to-earth Aussie, to capture the cosmopolitan confusion of postwar Europe. Lingua Franca 2010-07-19T21:16:00Z Next week, both auction houses are offering works by postwar and contemporary artists. Picasso's 'The Rescue' auctioned for $31.5M 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Jonathan Laib — then a senior vice president and senior specialist of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s — was excited to hear of an Albers. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Out of sorts with its esteemed surroundings, this red-brick postwar building is now awaiting demolition, its faded surfaces bearing inscrutable testimony to the untold lives that passed through its rooms. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z Never mind that In Cold Blood is one of the great postwar works of American prose. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z Watts’s musical style could be traced to mid-1950s London, the period just before rock took hold among the postwar generation that would dominate pop music a decade later. Charlie Watts, the Unlikely Soul of the Rolling Stones 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z It sharply divides our knowledge of postwar art — not just Californian but American — into two periods: before and after “Pacific Standard Time.” Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z Say what you will about Tito and the postwar regime that was so centered around his personality that it barely outlived him, but, under his leadership, the Party organized a resistance movement and liberated Yugoslavia. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The second, set in postwar Vienna, featured Orson Welles in a pivotal role as a black-market profiteer named Harry Lime. Guy Hamilton, resourceful James Bond director, dies at 93 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z At the same time, she is good at putting Manning into context – particularly in the postwar British literary scene. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David - review 2013-02-16T08:01:01Z In a lecture he gave in reunified Berlin, in 1993, he referred to “three separate and distinct experiences here”: the Weimar years; the postwar era; and his current visit. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z That coup ensured New York would be at the center of the conversation about humanity and survival in the postwar era. A Climate Center on Governors Island? Could Be a Game Changer 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Prosperity and family and friendship—this was the promised landscape of Archie, the postwar fantasy on offer, though it’s notable that the comic started in 1941. The Corrupted American Innocence of Archie Comics 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z This excellent box set contains a first-rate film from each of the three postwar generations of Polish directors. Polish Cinema Classics Volume II 2013-03-31T00:05:31Z Forster is also attached to produce the subsequent two films, which would expand on Kubrick's original story and head west in the postwar era. Stanley Kubrick's historical drama 'The Downslope' to be film trilogy 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Their goal was to provide material for a book that would expose the Holocaust as a Jewish exaggeration — “the lie of the six million,” as one postwar Nazi publication in Argentina put it. Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Boles, however, cited Newhall, a development of about 550 houses so far in the postwar new town of Harlow in Essex. Newhall, Harlow – review 2013-02-24T00:05:35Z In both its punning name and its serious musical intent, the Town Hall event typifies the original boom of Latin-Jewish music in the postwar decades as well as its fervent revival in the 21st century. On Religion: Decades Later, the Clave Beat Goes on for Latin Jazz and Jewish Musicians 2014-03-22T02:01:29Z In his early 20s, he quickly became disenchanted with the conservative ethos and restricted rehearsal conditions of the postwar Royal Opera House. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z The Tefaf report describes the art market in 2015 as “highly polarized,” with most of the value in sales of postwar, contemporary and modern art at “the very highest price levels.” Tefaf Faces Competitive Headwinds 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z And to rev up a postwar economy, it welcomed cheap labor from Turkey, Africa and Eastern Europe. Documenta Kassel: Using Art as Their Witness 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z This is the case with “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980” at the Met Breuer, a nervy multimedia survey of postwar art. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It approaches postwar art from a new, implicitly revisionist perspective that expands it beyond the usual male suspects. Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Booths at the fair used to be highly specialized, Ms. Lévy said — with one dealer, for example, focusing on postwar French works. How a Dealer Prepares for the ‘Most Important’ Art Fair of the Year 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The song’s success not only made her the biggest female country music star of the postwar era; it also persuaded record executives in Nashville to offer recording contracts to other women. Kitty Wells, Country Singer, Dies at 92 2012-07-16T21:02:25Z The postwar airwaves crackled with the exploits of tough, sassy private eyes like Philip Marlowe and Richard Diamond. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z This is the generational divide, brought about by the tumultuous changes in postwar popular media. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z He zeroed in the Bar jacket, a shapely bit of tailoring that Christian Dior first created for full, postwar skirts. Fashion Review: Dior, Lanvin, Hussein Chalayan, Roland Mouret: A Fashion Review 2012-09-28T22:32:12Z It made a fitting beginning to the Sinfonietta's celebration of a handful of postwar classics. Proms 43 & 44: RPO/Dutoit; Sinfonietta/Ridder – review 2012-08-15T17:08:40Z Butoh, an avant-garde style of dance with origins in postwar Japan, is an art form concerned with psychic pain. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z New Labour had an opportunity to reaffirm those postwar values, but instead they just uprooted and diluted them; it was just a kind of rebranded Thatcherism. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z This is what sets it apart from other European archives of postwar collaborator investigations, he said. Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z He passed the examinations one month before Japan surrendered, resigned himself to postwar national service as a radio operator and spent two years in Malaya at the start of the emergency. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z But what they lacked in cash they made up for in focus, passion and connections in the postwar art world, especially in New York’s Black art scene. Vivian Hewitt, Who Amassed a Major Collection of Black Art, Dies at 102 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z He is particularly dismissive of the idea that postwar Lawrence, variously known as T. E. Ross and T. E. Shaw, lived a monastic and friendless life. Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z Some scholars ask why, given Heidegger’s postwar efforts to minimize his enthusiasm for Nazism, he didn’t just destroy the notebooks from the 1930s. Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism 2014-03-30T21:44:42Z A subtly different postwar mood emerged – one of unease and resentment at the “teen-ager” with money and expectations. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The postwar Crosby is a fascinating figure; in a way he’s the upbeat, gently sentimental antidote to the doomed heroes of the films noirs then filling American screens. DVDs: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know 2010-12-25T03:53:01Z Champions of postwar progressive culture like Dubuisson had their faith in Modernism shaken, and lost their architectural bearings. A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Hollywood films exploring the lives of surfers once captured the essence of postwar America. Turning the tide: why surf films have lost their counterculture cachet 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z They do feel entitled, while we are coming from a postwar generation who worked and grafted. Special Report: Marketing to the Millennials 2010-03-02T13:30:00Z “The Stranger” was the first postwar Hollywood movie to acknowledge the Holocaust, with Welles playing a Nazi monster hiding out in a New England college town. ‘Othello’: Shakespeare’s Tragedy Was Orson Welles’s Triumph 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Nearly every booth provides a glimpse into some areas of visual culture, from Egyptian antiquities to American folk art to postwar Italian art glass. Winter Antiques Show Offers a Collection of Recent and Rare Works 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast of the latest postwar developments abroad. Japanese Gutai in the 1950s: Fast and Fearless 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The postwar rise of anti-Communism, bringing to power Hoover diehards like Nixon and Joseph R. McCarthy, did the rest. Books of The Times: Tim Weiner?s ?Enemies? and F.B.I. Counterintelligence 2012-03-14T21:09:12Z The immediate postwar world produced unprecedented benefits for its children. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z “They definitely stepped up their game,” said Alex Rotter, who recently left Sotheby’s to become chairman of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s Americas. Third Place? In Auction World, Phillips Is Making Strides 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Rich came of age in a postwar America where civil rights and antiwar movements were either getting started or were on the horizon. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I was more taken, though, with the work of another South African photographer, Jo Ractliffe, whose stark but evocative images of postwar Angolan landscapes are subtle and suggestive. Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles 2011-07-11T15:26:24Z Michael has gone missing after traveling to Germany, where postwar repercussions have led to much political and economic instability, including assassination attempts and hyperinflation. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z On the other hand, he approved of many of the young postwar artists. A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z One of the leading abstract artists of the postwar period, Kelly created works of cleanly juxtaposed colors and shapes, many of which reside in major museums. Ellsworth Kelly: 'Flexible perfectionist' remembered by Eli Broad and museums around the world 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z It culminates in his grand postwar plans for the “Fabulous Flamingo,” a swanky casino-cum-hotel in the Nevada desert. Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z We learn about a life of poverty and crime in postwar austerity Britain, where clothes are threadbare but the rare successful "job" allows a few months of living like kings. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – running blog book club 2013-05-15T10:15:17Z Konar constructs a sinuous plot from the chaos of the postwar landscape. The story of twins who endured Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” from “An American in Paris” Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography was the centerpiece of this sensuous Gershwin musical set in postwar Paris. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In Germany, there was an urgent need to break with the past, so nearly every postwar architect was a modernist. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z She pointed to postwar films like “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which broached anti-Semitism, and “Pinky,” about a light-skinned black woman who passes as white. From ‘Compton’ to ‘The Black Panthers’ to ‘Peace Officer,’ a Raw and Resonant Conversation 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z "The Late Middle Classes suffers from the very constipation it alleges of postwar England," he says. What to say about ? The Late Middle Classes 2010-06-04T10:00:00Z Its sleek, athletic design was practical yet chic, a splendid feat of American engineering in the halcyon days of postwar abundance, so remote to us now. Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z But in postwar America, where the goal had become a two-car garage and the white picket fence, “surprise pregnancies were an obstacle to a better life,” one that “needed to ‘go away,’” Glaser writes. Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z After his postwar return to Seattle, he died in 1948 at age 51. At SAAM: A lost art-history chapter restored 2011-12-07T23:48:10Z Among its passengers were approximately eight hundred West Indian workers, mostly from Jamaica, who had come in response to England’s postwar labor shortage. What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Over the next 10 years, he led and designed the groundbreaking "Wedgwood Rooms" programme – collaborations with major retailers which after postwar austerity brought Wedgwood's ware to shoppers and set new standards for retail display. Alick Smithers obituary 2013-02-14T17:37:07Z The exhibition's improbable title, New Wooabbeleri, is taken from a competition entry to name the town in the 1960s when developers pioneered a brave new, postwar Britain along the banks of the Thames. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The mix of nostalgia and hope helped make the young Andrews a reassuring figure in the anxious landscape of postwar Britain. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Two boys in postwar Switzerland form a lifelong friendship in this unconventional novel. 10 Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z In a revealing way, Double Take shows how Hitchcock exploited and mocked the Cold War, television and postwar conformity, and life and art merge suggestively in the film. Psycho; Double Take | Film review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z They leave out nearly all of postwar opera, then bemoan its paucity. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z He was a brash fixture within the world of postwar and contemporary art, traveling on private jets, renting villas in Ibiza and wearing handmade Italian suits. Art Dealer Sentenced to 7 Years in $86 Million Fraud Scheme 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z These terrible acts, the authors write, “are not a coincidence; they constitute frighteningly clairvoyant readings of ‘Catcher’ — the assassins intuiting the underlying postwar anger and violence in the book.” Books of The Times: A Biography From David Shields and Shane Salerno 2013-08-25T21:13:01Z Based on the award-winning novel by one of Japan's most beloved contemporary novelists, Kyogoku Natsuhiko, this series tells the story of the hunt for a serial killer in postwar Japan. Anime for beginners: five TV series to get you started 2013-04-01T14:00:00Z Aged 16, Haisman won a scholarship to Rada, and went on to entertain British troops in postwar Germany while doing national service with the army. Mervyn Haisman obituary 2010-12-09T18:02:00Z Like other postwar shows it enshrined a traditional nuclear family, with a full-time homemaker mom and dad with an outside job. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z It called for returning them to the countries where they'd been stolen and leaving it to their postwar governments to handle restitution claims. Norton Simon dealt setback in Nazi-looted art case 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Neon Neon's recent electro-pop album, Praxis Makes Perfect, hangs suspended between two unlikely poles: the power of literature and the milieu of postwar communism. Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z This was Saddam’s postwar Iraq: resources were scarce, I was suffering from hypoxia, and my father was forced to bribe the doctors for more oxygen to keep me alive. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But while expressing disappointment in Feynman’s behavior, Jogalekar essentially dismissed it as a byproduct of the “male-dominated American society in the giddy postwar years.” What’s going on at Scientific American? Deleted posts, sexism claims, a fired writer. In the Bohemian art world of postwar New York, appetites for self-indulgence tended to be large, and sexual mores loose, with relationships and romantic partners ever shifting. Mimi Kilgore, Arts Patron and de Kooning Muse, Dies at 87 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Feature filmmaking, which dated to the silent era there, had been moribund in the postwar period. ‘Wake in Fright’ and Australian New Wave 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z Even worse for Claire is wading through the postwar attitude toward women that shows itself everywhere, from Frank’s work gatherings to the delivery room. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 1: All That Was Me Is Gone 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z It was 2005, and the country was slowly getting back on its feet, postwar. 2010-01-22T16:52:00Z Colette's nostalgic wartime text and Ravel's postwar music look both back and forward. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z Advertisement Advertisement Kiesler’s Endless House sets the tone here for contributions by postwar artists who interrogated the form and the meaning of the single-family house. Review: ‘Endless House’ Expands the Definition of Home 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Photograph: AP He was one of the most notorious figures of postwar America, a behind-the-scenes puppet master revered by some and feared by many. Leonardo DiCaprio tapped for J Edgar Hoover biopic 2010-04-01T15:21:00Z Mr. Johansen, now 94, was a member of the Harvard Five, a group of young modernists associated with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in the postwar years. On Location: A Country Home, by a Modernist at Play 2011-04-13T23:55:52Z The paper, which tracked prices from 1970 through 2013, identified the segments of postwar and contemporary, as well as American art, as being in a bubble “still in the mania phase of its formation.” Art World Prepares for a Challenging Year 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z In the past decade some householders in these outwardly innocuous inter- and postwar cul-de-sacs have planted flagpoles beside the pampas grass or the rockery and raised the flag of St George. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z One of Ms. Sullivan’s main characters is Frances Gerety, the real advertising copywriter who created that sales pitch in 1947, in the postwar era when a diamond was anything but a necessity. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z Mexico was the only country to do so — an expression of solidarity postwar Austria recognized by naming a small plaza by the Danube canal “Mexikoplatz.” How Mexico tried to save Freud from the Nazis 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z There are twin influences in Saunders' work of postwar German fastidiousness and expressionism on one hand, and experimental, Cageian concentration on the other. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z But these numbers paled next to the statistics he gathered of radio commissions from Europe and Canada in the postwar era. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z An 1870s blanket with a star pattern was formed from 14,320 pieces by a wounded veteran who sewed alongside his new bride as a form of postwar therapy. Antiques: ‘Homefront & Battlefield’ at American Textile History Museum 2012-06-28T21:22:20Z It would do well to think not only past medium but past dogma, too, and to use its unrivaled collection to reveal the postwar era in all its plenitude breadth and tragedy. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Los Angeles may have entered the postwar years with little to speak of in the way of a contemporary art world, but within a decade it was more than making up for lost time. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z A corporeal response to the emotional wreckage of postwar Japan, Butoh channeled those images through the flesh. Mina Nishimura Invokes Butoh at Mount Tremper 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z In the years after she stopped performing, Ms. Shane’s star, like that of so many almost-famous performers dotting the universe of postwar popular music, quietly dimmed. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The new community was created following a postwar referendum by Krakow residents rejecting the new authoritarian regime. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The overall portrait is of an economically comfortable family in an anxious age, the postwar years when Europe was still shellshocked from two world wars and England’s leisure class was feeling unmoored. Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Heralded as a perfect example of postwar reconstruction, it wasn’t until years later that the role of slave labor was acknowledged. Exploring Austria like a local in delightful towns unfamiliar to most American tourists 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Female art dealers are often conjured in books about the postwar era in dopey anecdotes and observations from their male counterparts. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z If evidence was ever needed of what postwar American design got right, it’s all here, in an idyllic cul-de-sac outside San Francisco. California dreaming: the homes where the spirit of the 60s lives on 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z This prolific, promiscuous output is perhaps one reason he's not accorded the status he deserves in the postwar canon of English literature. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z American Pop Art is the strength of the Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Family Collection at Christie’s evening sale of postwar and contemporary art. Spring Art Sales: Yawns or Records? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z There is a clear structural argument in favour of Last Post: the first volume of the quartet is set before the war and the middle two during it; so a fourth, postwar volume makes sense. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z While much of it was PR hype, the representation of Andrews as an extraordinary musical prodigy resonated deeply with postwar British audiences. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z His 1970s stint as a collector of postwar paintings, including works by Jackson Pollock and de Kooning, ended when his investments soured; he sold the canvases. A Collection of Campaign Mementos, Starting With Washington, Goes to Auction 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z This celebration of the Japanese postwar dance style that has found adherents around the globe kicks off Monday, with artist talks and workshops during the week, and performances on Friday and Saturday. The week ahead: Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Oct. 21 2012-10-17T20:53:04Z The figure of the child was pivotal to the rhetoric of postwar British reconstruction. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Born in Amsterdam on Nov. 4, 1944, Mr. Breuker would later attribute his choice of instrument to postwar privations: he was drawn to the piano but couldn’t afford one, so he picked up the clarinet. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z Today, most of the buildings in the Old Town look darkened and disused, remote from the postwar city built up around it. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, he also badly botches a section that addresses Harlan’s postwar insistence on his innocence by inserting a clip from “Jew Süss” in which the caged Süss declares his own virtue. Movie Review | 'Harlan': Haunted by What Dad Did in the War 2010-03-02T23:38:00Z She was your basic gorgeous postwar blond: long-limbed and bosomy, with an inviting smile framed by cascading hair. Bunny and Bettie: The Photographer Who Immortalized a '50s Sex Goddess 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It is not much of an exaggeration to say that Head — along with her chief rival, the equally prolific Irene Sharaff — taught postwar moviegoers how to appreciate the seductive and semiotic power of clothes. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Britain was changing, or so went the conventional wisdom, with postwar affluence having led the working class to adapt middle-class attitudes and lifestyles. Movie Review: ‘56 Up’ Adds to Michael Apted’s Documentary Series 2013-01-03T23:33:57Z It was a time when circumstances diverted so many lives, when people found themselves behaving differently, unexpectedly, when the license of wartime spilled over into the postwar period, when pragmatism became crime and opportunity beckoned. Wartime Acts, Postwar Retribution: A Mother’s Risky Legacy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez, whose 90th birthday is being celebrated this year, was among the postwar composers to shatter the traditional structure of music and replace it with abstract, unpredictable forms. Review: Festival for Contemporary Performance Opens With Film, Boulez and Chaos 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly drawing on postwar film noir for inspiration in both content and style, this murder-mystery adventure promises much. Games preview for 2011 2011-01-02T00:04:02Z Adrian cleaned them of mold and mildew for the exhibition currently on view at Magazzino Italian Art, a museum of postwar and contemporary work in the Hudson Valley. When Reviving a Forgotten Sculptor’s Reputation Is a Family Affair 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Decades before the postwar push by the French government to decentralize a cultural scene concentrated in the capital, Pottecher convinced local workers to attend his plays and perform in them. This Theater Brings Nature Right Into the Drama 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Instead of incisive analyses of Hobsbawm’s books, read against the transformations of postwar politics and culture, Evans devotes pages to the haggling over contracts, royalties, translations, and sales. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “For a long while in postwar middle century America, they used to say that maybe only 5,000 people read it, but that it was the right 5,000 people.” The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The postwar and contemporary-art auctions happen twice a year in New York — in November and May — setting much of the tone for the global art market. At the Art Auctions During Tight Economic Times 2011-11-12T00:01:15Z He’d grown up in gray, postwar Britain under the eye of five disapproving aunts. A Memoirist Remembers the Twinkle in Her Father’s Eye 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In recent years, helped by expansive guarantees, Christie’s has dominated market share of auctions, particularly in the sector of postwar and contemporary art. Auction Sales Down at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, in a Challenging 2016 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But another example ends in success as Stuyvesant Town — meant to reflect a postwar ideal of subsidized urban planning — is forced to allow integrated housing. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z It’s a question that lies at the heart of her five encyclopedic volumes of oral history of postwar Russia. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Franck was an exemplar of a school of postwar photography that aimed to capture the real world. Martine Franck, Documentary Photographer, Dies at 74 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z The natural history of the postwar New York art world is usually understood according to a fairly simple geography. ‘Inventing Downtown’ Recalls When Artists Ran the Galleries 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z But let’s begin at the beginning, with “The Part About the Critics,” which focuses on the relationships among four academics all obsessed with the same fictional postwar German novelist, Benno Von Archimboldi. Review: Bolaño’s Mysterious ‘2666,’ Distilled to 5½ Hours by the Goodman Theater 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Americans and people from the forty other countries where Ferrante’s works are available in translation have not been reading her to get an eyewitness depiction of postwar Naples. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z These films also reflected the mood of Germany during the postwar Weimar period. LACMA spotlights '20s German Expressionist films 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z A German publisher, Berliner Verlag, just released a book of photographs of postwar Berlin that had somehow languished in its archives. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z In the postwar era, Long Island beach houses were, for the most part, architectural nonentities, basic boxes and inconsequential Cape Cods. How a Modernist Architect Shook Up the Hamptons with Funky, Low-Cost Vacation Houses 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z In later years, Athill would travel widely, but her postwar Florence stands apart. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z But as postwar L.A. boomed, the federal government supported discriminatory practices. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” tells the story of a public housing project in St. Louis that opened in the mid-1950s, part of the postwar dream of replacing slum apartments with modern, affordable high-rises. | 'The Pruitt-Igoe Myth': ?The Pruitt-Igoe Myth? by Chad Freidrichs ? Review 2012-01-20T01:11:44Z They are elegant, gritty works, alive with spontaneous splashes, pours and rivulets of paint, and they effortlessly claim a place in the history of American postwar abstraction, stain painting division. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Two-thirds of them went to the UK, attracted by the postwar reconstruction boom and the welfare state put in place by Clement Attlee's Labour government. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Faisal was a leader of a pan-Arab coalition of fighters hoping to establish a postwar independent Arab state. ‘Lawrence in Arabia’: blueprint for disaster in the Middle East 2013-08-07T21:54:23Z It's ideology, says Newman: big business wanted to roll back the gains of postwar social democracy, and selfish-gene theory offered them scientific legitimacy. Robert Newman – review 2013-05-23T17:21:02Z When 2017 arrived she was 26 and caring for the postwar version of her best friend — an able-bodied man without a job. Love’s Road Home 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z It was going to be one or the other for Niki de Saint Phalle, who made some of the most joyous art of postwar France, and also some of the most menacing. Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Prewar aestheticism, aloof from the social world, lingered in faded corners in those postwar years, but mostly it was swept aside by the new rappel à l'ordre. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z But several decades after its composition, much postwar modernist music remains tough to digest. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z It combined the postwar attitude that men should be in touch with their feelings, to the point that they may cry, with the intrinsic American ideal of white male privilege. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber and Gottlieb” explores a postwar phenomenon, a meeting of secular and spiritual agendas that would be hard to convene today. | 'Modern Art, Sacred Space': Daring Expressions in ?Modern Art, Sacred Space? 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z While stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, during the postwar Allied occupation, he enrolled in the new Biarritz American University in France. William Windom, Emmy Winner and TV Everyman, Dies at 88 2012-08-19T19:20:06Z Judith Ledeboer, a leading postwar architect, changed her career path immediately on hearing of Scott's win. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z Black paintings, a distinct and widely celebrated category of postwar American abstraction, took on a whole new meaning in Marshall’s often moving representations of black life since the 1950s. Best art in 2017: Our critic's top 10 exhibitions, plus one very big worry 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The firm was not exactly flush with cash in the postwar years, and the center was built with a mortgage taken out by 70 Japanese Canadians. Raymond Moriyama, Designer of Humane Public Spaces, Dies at 93 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Similar words and images recur at various points in a narrative that occasionally jumps forward in time but that mostly recounts the chronology of Sassoon’s postwar life. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He moved the story, which is set in a dreary postwar world, to the near future, to add a shimmer of technology-induced anxiety. ‘The Tenant,’ Reimagined by the David Lynch of Dance 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z After a few years, during which the pace of reselling accelerated, the data show that owners of postwar and contemporary works are holding onto their artwork longer again. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z “The Holy Virgin Mary” will be included in Christie’s June 30 auction of postwar and contemporary art in London, estimated at about $2.3 million. Chris Ofili’s ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’ to Be Sold 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “They came from a postwar, antifascist space and were talking about the morals and ethics that were prevalent at the time,” she said. ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Is Marvel’s Latest Double Act 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Probably the most ambitious city renewal plan of the postwar era, it envisioned replacing the crumbling West Side Highway with an interstate tunneled below the Hudson River. A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z One important turning point, Ms. Lorch suggests, was the development of the postwar ski industry, which created new customers for Savoie wines. From Savoie, White Wines That Refresh Like Mountain Air 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z On earlier challenges, Kershaw points out that postwar Europeans tackled difficult issues that make some of today’s troubles seem more manageable. Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Is that judgment altered by the knowledge that the paintings, rather than emerging from a self-promoting man’s supposed encounters with orphans in postwar Berlin, sprung from the unconscious of a self-effacing woman? ‘Big Eyes’ Casts Another Side of Keane Art 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The early chapters, set in postwar Australia, feel like the setup for a rom-com road race. Review | Peter Carey’s new novel is a strange ride through Australia’s racist past — and present 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Blowup: The Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni brought an intellectual voluptuousness to Europe’s postwar anomie; his English-language debut film also defined Swinging London’s new generation of cool kids who have it all and still feel empty. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z U.S. forces who discovered Goering's art stash in 1945 sent "Adam" and "Eve" back to Holland in keeping with the postwar art restitution policy. Norton Simon dealt setback in Nazi-looted art case 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In 1941, Walt Disney traveled to South America with a small army of artists and screenwriters as part of the United States government’s postwar “Good Neighbor” policy. At a Los Angeles Art Show, Mickey Mouse as an Imperialist Icon 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “Gulf View Drive” shifts locales to a sleepy western Florida beach town in the postwar boom years, a cinderblock-and-palm-tree paradise stylishly evoked in Mike Billings’ back porch set and Marcy Froehlich’s period costumes. Mining the drama of everyday life in 'Gulf View Drive' 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The UK is in a time of huge national flux and turmoil, and the Queen, the last link with the postwar consensus, is 93. Meghan and Harry's story is quite the drama, but it's no abdication crisis 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “The Wait,” which the Whitney has owned since 1966, and which hasn’t been on display there in 15 years, is now part of “Singular Visions,” an exhibition of a dozen rarely seen postwar works. Inside Art: The Cat Is Stuffed, but the Bird Is Real 2011-01-06T22:44:44Z Clemenceau’s bitterness against Germany helped inspire the postwar reparations that made Hitler’s rise possible, but the Great War figures only as an ominous background rumble, as does the Dreyfus Affair. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z In Italy’s early postwar years especially, she catalyzed the desires of an orphan nation, a newborn democracy looking for a mother. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The 's latest Total Immersion day focused on postwar Japan, its complex cultural dialogue with Europe, and the re-examination of its own musical traditions that resulted. Total Immersion: Sounds from Japan – review 2013-02-04T17:50:15Z “In the beginning there was the blues,” Spitz intones, before jumping right into postwar England and recounting the seismic effect the blues had on the country’s nascent youth culture. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z In the first two decades of television, the family comedy, with some exceptions, was a straightforward endorsement of middle-class values and postwar ideas of normalcy. The serious side of 'The Simpsons' and 'Seinfeld' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z RW: There was something in that postwar period: it was when the Arts Council began, the Third Programme – Radio 3's ancestor – began. The conversation: Classical music vs rock'n'roll 2012-07-13T19:30:02Z Freddie Mercury onstage at Live Aid: 'one of the most extraordinary days in postwar history.' The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones – review 2013-07-08T09:00:02Z But its 408 properties nationwide still do not include a single site dedicated to the postwar struggle to build a racially equal democracy. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z “He had predicted grand vistas for the postwar electronics industry even before the transistor,” Mr. Gertner writes. Books of The Times: ?The Idea Factory,? by Jon Gertner 2012-03-19T21:54:23Z Arthur had already shrugged off the collectivist values of the postwar years. On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z I imagine there is plenty more to tell, especially about the prewar lives and postwar fates of the refugees the sisters helped, than Ida Cook does in a book that is often discreet. Ida and Louise Cook, Two Unusual Heroines of the Second World War 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Also Southerners, they set the stage for postwar art by choosing images and objects from everyday life. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z If you want to see what American cities are going to be like when we’re done reversing the postwar expansion of the middle class, South Shore’s a good place to look. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The argument over whether postwar Britain should see a perpetuation of private enterprise or major social reconstruction was a living issue in 1944. Less Than Kind 2011-01-24T18:09:40Z Built by the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames in 1949, it was part of a program to design intelligent, affordable housing in the postwar era. Cultured Traveler: California Houses as Celebrities in Themselves 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z She’s starring in the Public Theater’s revival of David Hare’s drama about a former secret agent for Britain during World War II as she struggles to adjust to postwar life. Where to See Celebrities Onstage This Fall 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Founded by Pierre Balmain in 1945, the label was among the vanguards of postwar Paris fashion, along with houses founded by Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga. Designer Christophe Decarnin leaves Balmain 2011-04-06T19:35:49Z Delving into the city’s unforgivable housing policies, Dyja describes how postwar Chicagoans became so obsessed with racial boundaries that they “now read the city map the way they’d recently read the European Theater.” ‘The Third Coast’: Chicago’s chapters in the book of American culture 2013-04-25T20:47:58Z Over lunch with the Padwees last month, Mr. Pinart reminisced about his childhood in wartime Paris, his postwar jobs repairing church windows and his move in the 1950s to the United States to find work. A Stained-Glass Artist Enjoys a Renaissance 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z That is where the Whitney show begins, in postwar Paris in 1948, the same time and place that shaped Ellsworth Kelly’s entree into abstraction. A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Stritch wasn't just a legend on the Great White Way — she was the wisecracking, lovably irascible, emotionally naked incarnation of the American theater's postwar golden age. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His motivation for so doing is tied in with his war trauma, and postwar trauma, and all the stuff that happened to him in the multiple other Rambo movies. ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Review: Death Country for Old Men 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “It is,” he added, “a Hamlet for this bewildered, postwar generation, frustrated, unhappy, sure of nothing.” David Warner, Actor Who Played Villains and More, Dies at 80 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z After what she calls her “bohemian fun” of university life, she married Jan Kulczyk, a businessman who built his fortune in postwar Poland in energy, telecommunications and car dealerships. A Polish Collector’s Passion for Art and Dance 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z A three-play David Hare season kicks off with a revival of his 1978 study of the lies and disappointments of the postwar world. Plenty ? review 2011-02-09T19:15:00Z She personified the postwar generation’s apprehension about the mid-century women’s movement, especially when it came to sexual agency. Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Howard Rachofsky, 76, who owns a museum-quality collection of postwar and contemporary art in Dallas, said he was not sure he would ever want to visit an international art fair again. As the Art World Goes Online, a Generation Gap Opens 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The crimson-toned art work captures a distorted vision of Freud, who like Bacon was one of postwar Britain's leading artists. Francis Bacon painting auctioned for $37 million 2011-02-10T22:45:10Z Part chilling ghost story, part psychological drama, this novel also examines the shifting class identities of postwar Britain. Guardian Review book club with Sarah Waters 2010-05-19T13:28:00Z But he knew how to work the other side of the camera, in his early self-portraits and especially in the postwar photo spreads of his late career. Picasso Aplenty, at the Pace and Gagosian Galleries 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z A sardonic riff on the difference between postwar and prewar ideas is matched by an angry discussion on the gap between constitutionally guaranteed rights and brutal realities. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z His music also initially received a hostile welcome, deemed too expressive for the postwar avant-garde but too thorny for general consumption. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z Over a leisurely three-hour meal at an Italian restaurant near his new home he discussed his childhood in Rome, postwar Italian politics and his infatuation with American pop culture. Jovanotti, Italian Rapper, Brings His Act to New York 2012-10-03T22:23:44Z Allen traces his enthusiasm for aviation back to his father’s postwar gig. Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:33Z This plea for eagle-eyed vigilance suited the postwar era of Pax Americana, in which economic prosperity was leveraged against a creeping paranoia — of threats coming from above or within. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “It was like a continuation of how the Nazis treated Kurt Weill,” he said of postwar Germany. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The art-hunting team, officially known as the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, grew to more than 300 people in the postwar years. Not All Monuments Men Were Men 2014-01-29T18:13:42Z The pair are currently collaborating on The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, a play that examines her life from her childhood in postwar Yugoslavia through her performance work to a staging of her death. From Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga: how pop embraced performance art 2011-07-07T21:00:03Z Many architects trained in the postwar years had done their national service in the RAF, which had stoked a professional passion for the aerial view. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z And of course it adheres to the inflexible unwritten rule: No exhibition of postwar art today is complete without something by Robert Smithson or Dan Graham, preferably both. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z During the postwar Soviet occupation of Hungary, his family determined that Balthazar, an architecture student, must escape to the West. Balthazar Korab, Architectural Photographer, Dies at 86 2013-01-27T03:33:58Z New York and Basel, it was a challenge to keep clients focused,” said Brett Gorvy, Christie’s worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art. ArtsBeat: Basquiat Painting Draws Top Price at Christie’s 2013-06-25T23:22:55Z One of the many messages delivered by this profusion of what will eventually be nearly 70 museum exhibitions is that New York did not act alone in the postwar era. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z At home, Britons faced bleak and dispiriting postwar deprivation, and globally their once-mighty Empire was crumbling in the face of colonial independence movements — including Jamaica’s. ‘Goldeneye’: Jamaica, Ian Fleming and James Bond 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The leap from the ’30s fairs to postwar America is not all that far. Exhibition Review: World’s Fairs of 1930s Showed Boundless Vision of Prosperity 2012-12-06T23:31:49Z Among these was a postwar catalog mentioning a looted Matisse of a seated woman from the Paul Rosenberg collection. The Void at the Heart of ‘Gurlitt: Status Report’ 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z But the towering man with trademark worker suits, hoarse voice and wavy hair also is remembered by Greeks for his stubborn opposition to postwar regimes that persecuted him and outlawed his music. Greek music great Mikis Theodorakis dies at 96 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z There was only one occasion in all the postwar elections when the Tories won a majority of the popular vote in England – that was in 1955. English devolution: a view from Scotland 2010-04-23T12:25:00Z She won a best actress Oscar for the postwar romantic drama The Reader and accepted a CBE earlier this year for services to drama. Kate Winslet weds third husband Ned Rocknroll in private ceremony 2012-12-28T00:57:46Z I asked Mr. Serra who among postwar artists was the first to take sculpture off the pedestal. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Unlike so many literary young men and women of his moment, he didn’t rush to travel through postwar Europe. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Cacoyannis’s early work brought a new level of respect to Greek filmmaking in the 1950s, when postwar European cinema was dominated by the Italians and French. Michael Cacoyannis, Director of ?Zorba the Greek,? Dies at 90 2011-07-26T05:08:08Z In their seeming abjection and haphazardness they exhibited affinities with postwar Japanese photography. Christopher Wool on What Brought a ‘Sunday Painter’ Back to Life 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z But the appearance around 20 years ago of natural wines as a group challenged an industry dominated by a postwar promise of better living through chemistry and technology. France Defines Natural Wine, but Is That Enough? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “The retrospective really helped put him on the map,” said Alexis Klein, a senior specialist in Christie’s postwar and contemporary department. A 40-year-old Painting on Gun Violence Takes on New Meaning 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z That next step led to a deeply researched story with a postwar setting new to Mr. Ondaatje’s work. In ‘Warlight,’ Echoes of Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z During a postwar interrogation, one policeman recalled hearing a colleague at the time exclaim, "It's really nice to shoot to military march music." How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Her life and work are detailed against the vivid tapestry of postwar Eastern European history — itself an education. Best Art Books of 2021 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Six years in the making, “La Tregua” was based on Primo Levi’s account of his postwar odyssey back to Turin from Auschwitz. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z Of course, cynicism has always had its place in cinema, from the tough noir films of the postwar 1940s to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. At the dawn of the Trump era, cynicism in film has become instantly obsolete 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z "We were getting comics and records and a very strong American influence for a long time, for the entire postwar period right into the 80s," he said. Comic book writer bows out from Batman after killing off Robin 2013-07-09T12:52:39Z It’s an unwelcoming postwar muddle, with huge brick walls and raised walkways, partly situated on a roundabout in one of London’s grayer spots. The British Museum is full of plunder. The Museum of London reflects the city’s soul. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z First up, George Hunka considers the figure of the salesman as "a central character of postwar American drama". Noises off: From Salesman to selling out 2012-06-08T11:20:39Z The museum seeks to present a version of French history that highlights immigrants’ contributions to the country from the 19th century, when it received Germans, Italians and Belgians, to postwar migration from France’s former colonies. In a country that stresses assimilation, this Paris museum highlights the contributions of immigrants 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z My mother had been my father’s first wife, and the plate was their first joint purchase, bought when they were students in postwar Europe. The Art of Mending 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The Festival of Britain cost an eye-popping £8m – more than £200m in today's money – and was meant to be a tonic for postwar Britons. Skylon's the limit 2011-01-19T17:27:31Z Since then, cities everywhere have been tearing down postwar highways that ripped through downtowns. Louisville Wrestles With Freeway Dilemma 2012-09-26T14:52:51Z Scheduled for May 11, “Looking Forward to the Past” is an evening sale of about 25 lots organized by Loic Gouzer, of Christie’s postwar and contemporary art department. A Picasso Is the Center of Attention at Christie’s Auction 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Some of those movies were set in the immediate postwar period, such as “Sentence: Eighteen Years,” about yakuza gangs operating in the black market. Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z There were any number of spectacular “flips” to be seen at last month’s $1.6 billion series of postwar and contemporary auctions in New York. For Art Collectors, the Risk Behind the High Returns 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z White was usurping the School of Paris as surely as postwar American painters were. Minor White snaps into focus again in Getty Museum show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z For the last few years, motivated by affection rather than expertise, I’ve taught a college course on postwar Italian cinema. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The great postwar Iraqi novel has yet to appear – probably due to the lack of paper, publishers etc – but until it does, why doesn't the prime minister bite down on Kafka's "In the Penal Settlement"? Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z He was known for figurative work of a decidedly dour postwar cast that culminated in a series of drawings of truncated bodies and body parts floating in tilted, tile-lined bathrooms. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The postwar reconstruction retained the old city's street plan, so the scale of things remains relatively diffident: inside the Ring, the blocks are small, the sightlines are short and the buildings are pokey. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z She begins with newsreel footage of the Nazi death camps and the immediate postwar period, much of it from U.S. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z A more personal photo panel traces the postwar life of young Madame Aghion. Fashion Review: Chloé at 60: Forward and Back 2012-10-01T18:49:38Z But the Labour party had a vision for postwar Britain, and education, art and culture for everyone were at the heart of that vision. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z "He certainly is considered one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st Centuries," said Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman of the postwar art department at Christie's auction house in New York. Realist painter Lucian Freud has died aged 88 2011-07-21T20:28:08Z In her five-decade career, the 68-year-old French actress has appeared in over 120 films, including recurring collaborations with some of the most important filmmakers in postwar European cinema. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z In its quietude “Oranges and Sunshine” is the opposite of the recent film “The Whistleblower,” a devastating, high-pitched exposé of human trafficking involving United Nations workers in postwar Bosnia. | 'Oranges and Sunshine': ?Oranges and Sunshine,? Starring Emily Watson - Review 2011-10-20T23:25:39Z I think she was the best bel canto soprano I'll ever hear: the vocal phenomenon of the postwar era indeed. Joan Sutherland: a tribute 2010-10-11T17:15:00Z Immediately after the war, he worked for U.S. military intelligence hunting Nazis in postwar Germany. Gene Gutowski, Holocaust survivor who produced Roman Polanski films, died at 90 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Hard-Swinging Sounds, With the Help of Friends Warren WolfWOLFGANG The vibraphonist Warren Wolf has both feet planted on a bedrock of midcentury modern jazz, meaning its postwar peak of popular refinement. Playlist: Hard-Swinging Sounds, With the Help of Friends 2013-08-16T19:26:20Z Vital as he was in molding postwar American policy, Kennan knew little and cared even less about American politics or culture. Books of The Times: ?George F. Kennan? by John Lewis Gaddis - Review 2011-11-23T00:16:55Z The decision was based on advice from English Heritage, whose chief executive Simon Thurley called it "an excellent example of high-calibre postwar architecture". Goldfinger's Alexander Fleming House finally gets Grade II listing 2013-07-09T13:53:22Z On a summer day in postwar London, Nathaniel and Rachel, both teenagers, listen bleakly as their parents announce that they are leaving for Singapore on business, without them. Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z At a time when postwar Japan was rebuilding itself and sensitive to Americanization, confronting Westernization with Japanese tradition was a form of cultural resistance. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z This book, one of the outstanding novels of the postwar period, is about a gentle, submissive, gullible woman whose arrogant, worldly husband leaves her for someone strong and manipulative, but otherwise perfectly unprepossessing. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z At the same time it was among the first of the postwar “pro-Indian” westerns. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z “They had known war and terror and hunger, had seen dear ones dead before their times,” Mitchell writes of postwar southerners. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z Wagner also said that Lowry should be placed in an international context, and his work assessed alongside that of peers working in the 1930s in Germany or in the postwar Soviet Union. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z The beach, while interesting as a 20th-century and postwar phenomenon — and particularly as a local obsession — is not, in his hands, the stuff of great art history. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Eric Fischl: Beach Life,’ in East Hampton 2012-09-22T05:19:13Z Christie's says Basquiat is being recognized as a classic of postwar American art, alongside such artists as Jackson Pollock. Work by graffiti artist Basquiat set for NYC sale 2012-09-19T20:11:10Z It was less effective, however, in the postwar period, as Algerian nationalism began to assert itself against France, modelling itself on the values of the French Resistance. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z But The Third Man is a postwar movie. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Born into postwar poverty and raised in Oklahoma, Dalton had a warm voice that was as creaky and lived-in as a beloved rocking chair. Karen Dalton, a Musical Mystery That Doesn’t Need to Be Solved 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z I was struck by the quality of some postwar buildings: a modern addition to the city’s Beaux-Arts main public library is a 1960s gem of Brutalist design by Louis & Henry, a local firm. Louisville Wrestles With Freeway Dilemma 2012-09-26T14:52:51Z Another ambitious, but unrealized, precedent for the area would have been Ely Jacques Kahn’s Dowling Theater, a postwar fusion of Modernism with Art Deco’s bursts of neon color, texture and light. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z “The trophies justified their value,” Brett Gorvy, worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, said after the sale, explaining that the big-ticket purchases were bought by seasoned bidders. Francis Bacon Work Sells for $70 Million at Christie’s Auction 2014-02-14T00:12:49Z The artists found a generally supportive milieu; but, art historically, the postwar School of Paris languished in the engulfing shadow of the ascendant New York School. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Miss Williams’s hiring by City Opera was of a piece with the tentative first stabs by postwar America at integrating the worlds of culture and entertainment. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z It also offers them a foothold on the city’s postwar future, with its prospect of unlimited expansion. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor Nearly 15,000 Dutch citizens were convicted of some form of collaboration in the postwar courts, about 10 percent of them for informing on Jews in hiding. Scholars Doubt New Theory on Anne Frank’s Betrayal 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Like Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, which also knew how potent cheap music is, Distant Vices, Still Lives was laced with dozens of postwar tunes to counterpoint or underline the narrative. The Long Day Closes: The Passion of Terence Davies 2012-03-23T22:27:48Z Erwin spends his time riding the trains of postwar Austria, traveling to small towns for a few nights before moving on. What to Read Before a Jewish Heritage Trip 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z His decision came after he finished filming Phantom Thread, a dark romance set in 1950s postwar London which took Director Paul Thomas Anderson two years to research and write. Time to explore world after acting, triple Oscar winner Day-Lewis says 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z By 1930, 50,000 whales were being killed annually, and in the postwar years, whale oil was a cheap filler, used in everything from margarine to ice cream, fertilizer to soap. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Now Southern California’s chief infrastructural investments are united in trying to undo some of that postwar damage. A lawsuit to protect LAX parking garages in the name of 'environmental quality'? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z A gnawing dissatisfaction with life after the postwar bubble, when, for the first time, women married younger and had more children than their mothers, was setting in among American women. Despite Virginia Johnson's legacy, we're still screwed-up about sex 2013-07-26T17:33:54Z And he played a key role as Italian cinema moved away from the neo-realism of the postwar years to incorporate stylization and artifice. Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z Where architecture led, government followed, doing terrible things to the environment of postwar Europe. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z And it showed that the world had changed from the postwar age of professional loyalty. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z But why, if he's right, did France have this postwar adventure, this dizzying explosion of intellectual life? Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z The auction signaled the arrival not only of this singular painter, but also of an entire generation of postwar Indian artists. V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Bill’s quirky, unpretentious voice guides the reader through the postwar period of Manhattan glamour. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Thereafter I used story to escape my humdrum life amid gray postwar austerity in Britain. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Outside of Seoul and other major metropolitan cities, Korea remained a largely rural country with thatch-roofed homes in the postwar period. When a Track Suit Embodies a Nation 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The postwar decades in Italy were a time of unprecedented growth, referred to as the "economic miracle." Italians avoided pizza for centuries — tourism changed everything 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The knotty-pine-paneled kitchen of our postwar suburban home was steamy and redolent of corned-beef brine, mingled with the intoxicating waft of rye turning golden in the chrome Sunbeam toaster. My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The story of a young Viennese girl arrested by the Germans who becomes a violinist in an orchestra of Auschwitz concentration camp inmates, it's set both during World War II and in postwar England. John Lawton, British mystery writer, talks about 'A Lily of the Field' and Inspector Troy 2010-10-15T20:57:00Z On Tuesday and Wednesday, MoMA presented two concerts in collaboration with the contemporary music collective Bang on a Can that highlighted Rauschenberg’s participation in, and influence on, postwar American composition. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z In another insightful segment, Wiesenthal’s wife pleads with him to abandon their postwar home in Vienna after death threats. ‘Wiesenthal,’ a One-Man Show by Tom Dugan 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z I’m referring, of course, to Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, the underworld figure who, calling himself an “investment broker,” abetted the postwar transformation of a once sleepy Nevada town into that “American Gomorrah” known as Las Vegas. Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Rosenkranz’s contributions poke fun at various strains of postwar painting, including the monochrome and gestural abstraction, while maintaining a close relationship to the body. Art in Review: PAMELA ROSENKRANZ/ NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF: ?This Is Not My Color/The Seven Habits of HighlyEffective People? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Janáček, Schoenberg, and the majority of postwar composers never produced a full-scale Beethovenian symphony. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Instead of the leonine presence of Brando, you have Mr. Foster’s more lumbering hominid gait, the sense of a man who has never quite made peace with the postwar world or his domestic environment. Ben Foster Brings His Beast Mode to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Ellington's postwar recordings were variable compared to the majestic output of his famous 40s band, and changes in musical fashions were affecting the once-indomitable orchestra's pulling power and record sales. 50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington plays Newport jazz festival 2010-04-06T11:02:00Z That explains the image on the catalog cover for Christie’s Feb. 14 London sale of postwar and contemporary art. Inside Art: Francis Bacon?s ?Portrait of Henrietta Moraes? at Christie?s 2012-01-19T22:12:50Z “There’s a positivity in the financial markets, and that is helping,” said Francis Outred, Christie’s head of postwar and contemporary art in Europe. Auction Sales Down at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, in a Challenging 2016 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z These trailblazers of cool minimalism found the ideal petri dish in midcentury Palm Springs: an anything-goes locale then flush with postwar affluence, forward-thinking Californian optimism and giddy Hollywood clients willing to take design risks. 2010-01-20T06:35:00Z Besides doing strategic planning and designing furniture herself, Ms. Knoll recruited and hired many of the world’s best postwar designers. Florence Knoll Bassett, 101, Designer of the Modern American Office, Dies 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Though Ms. Fure is American, her work has been heard mainly in Europe, particularly at the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, once the home of the postwar avant-garde. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z He says he seeks much of his inspiration from writers such as Frank O'Hara and Jack Kerouac and the postwar American art of Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston. Bryce Dessner talks about his 'double life' as a classical, rock musician 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z These efforts may be the last, ironically cheerful gasp of the postwar period’s often lugubrious Existential figuration — at its best in Jean Dubuffet’s work, which Mr. Hockney admired. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Leimert Park, where prewar City Beautiful ambition and rich postwar African American cultural history are piled together, is certainly one of them. Los Angeles public space is rambunctious again; let's dress it properly 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “In Fabric” sometimes feels like a spontaneous cinematic outpouring from the esoteric record label Ghost Box, whose aesthetic applied hauntology to anti-nostalgia for postwar England. ‘In Fabric’ Review: The Dress Is Possessed. But It Was on Sale. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Newman, recognizable for his balding head and fierce dark eyebrows, was known to three decades of postwar television viewers for his erudition, droll wit and seemingly limitless penchant for puns. Edwin Newman, Journalist, Dies at 91 2010-09-16T15:17:00Z Artistic Director Jude Kelly said the new celebration was not an attempt to recreate the festival, but to capture its postwar spirit of optimism. London celebrates Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011-04-21T17:16:04Z Italian horror borrows heavily from giallo, or the Italian thriller — a genre term that repurposes the Italian word for yellow, a reference to the cheap paperback crime novels of postwar Italy. ‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Nathaniel finds it hard to form a postwar relationship with her, affected still by her abandonment of him and his sister. Wartime Acts, Postwar Retribution: A Mother’s Risky Legacy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z With 150 works spanning more than three decades, the Whitney retrospective chronicles Koons' career, showcasing the works that made him one of the most popular, influential and controversial postwar artists. NY's Whitney Museum celebrates Jeff Koons with retrospective 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Typical and emblemetic of postwar Japanese popular culture, the dress conflates a traditionalist taste for ritual with a fascination for the electronic networks of the urban environment. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z According to his most strident critics, he bore responsibility for the misguided urban renewal projects — influenced by his ideas — that left massive scars on the postwar American landscape. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z By that point Dodger Stadium, built by O’Malley and the engineer Emil Praeger in a streamlined, appealingly informal and decidedly forward-looking style, was already cementing its reputation as the finest of baseball’s postwar stadiums. The battle of the ballparks: Cubs vs. Dodgers and the lost history of L.A.'s own Wrigley Field 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The dazzling cinematography brings home the harsh reality of everyday life in a dull, postwar provincial town at least as starkly as the same era’s kitchen-sink British films. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z When you visualize jazz, a certain image springs to mind: The dapper postwar musician in a darkened basement club, cigarette smoke curling around them, all of it captured in crisp black and white. Don Cherry is a deserving giant of jazz. Now his wife, Moki, gets her due as his visionary collaborator. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Influenced by the postwar existentialist novels of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, Mr. Kertesz was fascinated by the fate of the individual in an often totalitarian environment, where others decided his destiny. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It may sound like a lot to keep track of, but the magic system and geopolitics are both elegantly simple; this is not a book about the minutiae of postwar economics in a fantasy setting. Dark Books for Dark Times 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z At 14, he was sent with his two younger brothers to a children’s colony in western Siberia to escape the famine and hardships of post-revolutionary, postwar Petrograd. Review: ‘Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z A titanic, Teutonic Mantovani, Mr. Last was among the most commercially successful bandleaders of the postwar world. James Last, Bandleader Known for ‘Happy Sound,’ Dies at 86 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Today the question is whether a new generation of Germans wants to exorcise the postwar ghosts. Abroad: 50 Years After Trial, Eichmann Secrets Live On 2011-05-09T01:15:07Z The conversion of blighted places into space to play speaks to the special resilience of this postwar, postwall city. What Makes Berlin a Playground Paradise 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The key thing about the time period, though, is the transition taking place from a hardscrabble postwar society to the new, button-down London. Review: Nostalgia for a 1970s British Adolescence in ‘Cradle to Grave’ 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Sotheby’s, for its part, will hold its annual celebratory “Made in Britain” sale on Sept. 28, with items ranging from Swinging Sixties photographs and colorful postwar canvases to Young British Artist works by Damien Hirst. Will ‘Brexit’ Upset the Melting Pot That Has Been British Fashion? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The whole narrative of postwar U.S. history is demographically skewed. The Misconception about Baby Boomers and the Sixties 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z He is a real estate titan whose company controls the crown jewels of modernism, the Seagram Building and Lever House, and an art collector with 800 postwar gems, including 100-plus Warhols. Aby Rosen Is the Life of the Party 2013-05-29T19:51:55Z No wonder we longed for the problems of postwar mass society: Those were corporate sins we could actually comprehend, and that we found downright soothing to contemplate. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z The sly, eccentric Italian industrial designer produced biomorphic buildings and interiors across booming postwar Turin, as well as furniture that now sells for millions. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z This spatially ambiguous background is pushed to the fore in the postwar period, and startlingly bright colors — especially fiery reds — are layered together with a palette knife for a smooth, dry, frescolike surface. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a Modernist Often Overlooked, Gets a Smithsonian Retrospective 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The unruly charisma of its urbanism, its tolerance and the wide space it opened up for experimentation — these were postwar L.A.'s great contributions to world culture. Consider the social-architectural context of LACMA's 1965 design 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z At its postwar and contemporary art sale in November, it directly guaranteed 23 lots that accounted for 44 percent of the sale’s $853 million in revenue. Sotheby’s and Christie’s Return to Guaranteeing Art Prices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The closing Late Night Final samples What a Life!, a 1948 film intended to dispel the gloom of postwar austerity. Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain – review 2013-05-02T14:29:01Z Lock Kresler has left his job as head of private sales at Christie’s postwar and contemporary art department in London to run the new gallery. The Morgan Gets a Gift: A Lichtenstein Trove 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In Perisic’s poignant telling, the erasure of Yugoslavia and its socialist experiment continues to haunt its people, exes now adrift in a postwar vacancy. When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z And the author’s powers of observation were equally keen in his valedictory novel, “All That Is,” a tale of postwar New York, published in 2013. James Salter, a ‘Writer’s Writer’ Short on Sales but Long on Acclaim, Dies at 90 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It not only reflects Mr. Prince’s talents for drawing and painting, but also other activities that feed his consummately American art as editor, writer, connoisseur of postwar music and literature and collector of ’60s ephemera. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The oil shocks of the 70s were an early warning of the fragility of the postwar order. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z "Oh, Betty Parsons, definitely," she says, referring to the pioneering postwar New York gallery owner. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z That exhibition, which covered the same time period in which “Untitled” was painted, revisited the postwar years in which she developed her style of simple, Constructivist-like abstractions. A Mural Designed by Carmen Herrera Will Be Painted by Bronx School Students 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Although the film that replaced the runway show had as its inspiration the opening up of postwar Japan, it was a theme delicately treated. Special Report: Fashion: A Fresh Breeze of Change 2011-03-02T19:46:33Z On Friday, March 27th, Yee uploaded a video that criticized Lee Kuan Yew, the recently deceased founding father of postwar Singapore, and also took a swipe at organized Christianity. The Arrest of a Teen-Aged YouTube Star 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z He will next appear at the Public Theater in a revival of David Hare’s postwar drama “Plenty.” Corey Stoll on Shakespeare Boot Camp and Killing Tiny Vampires 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Orwell’s speeches, either in rehearsal with Carlotta or made directly to the audience, survey his writings, offer biographical anecdotes and announce his hope that socialism will triumph in the postwar world. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Curtis, who died late Wednesday, was among the purest and most authentic examples of what a movie star in postwar Hollywood could be. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z “It was a strong estimate, but we went for it,” said Alex Rotter, Christie’s co-chairman of postwar and contemporary art in the Americas. Contemporary Art Buyers Cautious After Wall Street Dips 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In fact, the Recession produced the biggest postwar unemployment rate among men and the largest male-female jobless rate gap. Surprising stuff happens to men who earn less than their wives 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Italian postwar classics by globally admired names such as Manzoni and Lucio Fontana have been viewed by many collectors as a safe haven after the speculative excesses of the last art market boom. Auction Houses Gear Up for Frieze Week 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Forged in the fires of Black urban life during the postwar era, bebop was, as Amiri Baraka writes in “Blues People,” the style that “led jazz into the arena of art.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z These films feel very contemporary, but in fact they connect all over the map of postwar art — to Concrete poetry, the choreography of Merce Cunningham, Conceptual Art’s use of language — and painting too. Review: Stan VanDerBeek at Andrea Rosen Gallery 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The old Stedelijk pioneered the collecting of modern art and design in postwar Europe. Critic’s Notebook: Amsterdam’s New Stedelijk Museum 2012-12-23T20:27:43Z It was left to the postwar governments of the formerly Nazi-controlled nations to invite claims to looted art and judge whether they were valid. Norton Simon asks Supreme Court to let it keep 'Adam' and 'Eve' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z I spent my years at art school in the early 1970s being force-fed the giants of postwar American criticism, Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, even though they were already passé. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z Once, public housing was a proud symbol of postwar American democracy. In Gowanus, a People’s Housing Plan to Challenge the Mayor’s 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “At the end of 1946,” he notes, “Capra and Wyler’s diametrically opposed visions of what a postwar Hollywood movie should look like ended up in a head-to-head competition.” Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z Many of its clients signed on when real estate companies expanded their holdings in booming postwar New York. Debriefing: Because the Doorman Doesn’t Iron 2013-07-11T22:22:35Z Many men worked in postwar construction and manufacturing, and some of the women as domestics. Dipping Into a French Melting Pot 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Years Lee served as president of Washington College in Lexington, Va., his only postwar job. National Portrait Gallery exhibit shows Grant and Lee at the end of the Civil War The effects of the postwar austerity anticipate those of the present recession and, then as now, the politicians and priests of what Quirke calls "this tight little island" are more impressive in rhetoric than record. A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black ? review 2011-07-07T08:16:57Z Mr. Hess was initially drawn to postwar American painting, but, with some hand-holding by the institute’s curatorial staff, grew to love contemporary art as well. Museums Special Section: Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons 2014-03-19T20:40:58Z The actor Michael Gough, who has died aged 94, was an arresting presence on stage, television and film for the entire postwar period, notably as the butler Alfred Pennyworth in Tim Burton's Batman movies. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z He entered the postwar period as “a bulwark of stability and reassurance,” a dominant presence on film, record and radio. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Reference letters used postwar hardship as a justification for priority consideration or tried to explain how a person had been pulled into, as one put it, the “vortex” of Nazi politics. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The Warhol, which opened in 1994, was the first museum devoted exclusively to a postwar American artist. Warhol Museum Reimagines the Factory in a New ‘Pop District’ 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Orwell despised the book because of what he viewed as its fascistic reverence for sexual power, but the movie substitutes something more topical and subversive in those unsettled postwar years: an erotic dream of democracy. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z Kauffman has been called the most naturally gifted painter produced in the first generation of major postwar Los Angeles artists, and here it’s easy to see why. Uncharted seas in 'How to Build a Foghorn' at Samuel Freeman Gallery 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z When Natalie joined the textile department, the postwar task of reinstalling the museum's collections was slowing and research into aspects of the collections increased. Natalie Rothstein obituary 2010-04-20T18:10:00Z The popularity of Gutai artists — members of the postwar Japanese collective that was the subject of a show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York last year — has grown steadily. Art World’s Cream Rises at Maastricht 2014-03-16T21:21:41Z The building was part of a postwar boom in civic structures across Japan, but none of those, even ones designed by Tange himself, has surpassed this masterpiece. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z In the postwar baby boom, Vegemite advertisements responded to concerns about the nation's health and the need to rebuild a healthy population. A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Growing up in the immediate postwar period, the young Mr. Petersen idolized America and American movies. Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Francis Outred, a director at Christie’s and a specialist in postwar and contemporary art, told me that it is only one of two of Bacon’s small portraits of Freud. Roald Francis Dahl's Bacon 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The masterworks of postwar auteurs were not easy to see, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center provided a beachhead and a clearinghouse, an alternative to network television and Times Square. Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Train exemplified the attitudes and values of the exalted class he was born into: the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants of the postwar era. John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Ivy clothing was also a good investment for the impoverished Japanese postwar consumer: durable, functional, traditional, and in easy-to-clean natural materials. Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This survey of tenacious, innovative, often beautiful work belatedly reveals its maker, now 90, as the queen of Arte Povera, the postwar Italian movement known for using humble materials. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Let's just remember what he did in the 1950s and 60s to promote the furthest reaches of the avant garde in what was still the conservative confines of the postwar scene in the UK. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z Cup Noodle epitomized the dominant belief in postwar Japan that a better life could be achieved through convenience and comfort, whether it was through appliances like refrigerators and televisions or takeout food. How Cup Noodles became one of the biggest transpacific business success stories of all time 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z But changes in the Allies’ postwar priorities resulted in the materials — including five mostly completed reels, an outline and a finished script — being put on the shelf and officially suppressed. A Father’s Legacy: Grim Footage of Concentration Camps 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Susan Sheehan, a New York dealer in postwar American prints, said that 18 months ago she bought what she thought were two Andy Warhol flower prints for $100,000 at a major German auction house. Art Experts Warn of a Surging Market in Fake Prints 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z I was surprised to learn from his obituary that as a young man he was drawn to the silence of postwar Paris, because I knew him as a real talker. An Appraisal: Scott Rothkopf, Chief Curator at the Whitney, Recalls Ellsworth Kelly 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z She filed a postwar compensation suit in September 1993, Tokyo District Court. The flight of Lola Catalina Lorenzo: In the Philippines, "comfort women" demand long-delayed justice 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z As always in this singular series, the mother-and-son team who write as Charles Todd position their mystery within the broader context of a nation frozen in postwar depression. Murderous Trips Into the Past, Then a Return to a Dangerous Present 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Leaving Polarization at the Door Robert Rauschenberg, who died four years ago after a career as big-spirited and optimistic as any in postwar art, was not considered first and foremost a politically motivated artist. Rauschenberg Foundation Gallery Opens as a Big Tent 2012-09-26T21:48:32Z He was pure affability, clever, charming and confident — just about the embodiment of how Americans liked to picture themselves back then, at the postwar apex of their nation’s power. James Garner: Tribute to a Marvelous Maverick 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z As Ms. Kort explains in her essay, postwar Germans were highly sensitive to any form of social or cultural expression involving folksy superstition and religiosity. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z Photograph: Graham Wood/Getty Images Lots of people get their knuckles rapped in David Goodhart's critical of postwar immigration, from lazy Somalis and macho African-Caribbeans to inbreeding Pakistanis and standoffish Poles. The British Dream by David Goodhart – review 2013-04-03T10:04:20Z I grew up in postwar Wigan, in a theatre-going family, so it didn't seem odd that my big sister Jean should take me to my first Shakespeare when I was only seven years old. Shakespeare and me: Sir Ian McKellen 2012-06-30T23:07:03Z Their contention is that if, after FDR died in April 1945, vice-president Wallace had succeeded, postwar world history would have been very different. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z But with a few exceptions — the early noir “The Murderers Are Among Us,” the postwar drama “I Was 19” — most are now long forgotten. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z "I think of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as one of the great novels of postwar Britain." Salman Rushdie and John le Carré end fatwa face-off 2012-11-12T12:56:57Z The exhibition argues convincingly that protests against such injustices, particularly in the context of a war fought in the name of freedom, led to the postwar civil rights movement. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z Pat Adams is something like the Jan van Eyck of postwar American abstraction. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z For director David Pountney, the opera resonates with postwar cults of artistic celebrity as well as with ideas of collusion with bourgeois philistinism or totalitarian politics. The Portrait - review 2011-02-03T16:56:25Z In an audio tour of “German to Me,” for example, an exhibition of postwar German art, patrons hear a young German-American interviewing her mother and grandmother about their experiences growing up after World War II. Technology Invites a Deep Dive Into Art 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Both stylistically and thematically, “Caligari” imagined the splintering of the postwar German psyche, presenting a sense that reality itself had been destabilizing, and was reconstituting itself in jagged lines and oblique curlicues. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z It remains one of the great works of postwar Italian cinema, a film whose poetic realism influenced Martin Scorsese as well as the young Bernardo Bertolucci, at that time Pasolini's cameraman. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z According to Queenie is an expression of her lifelong admiration for Dr Johnson, while An Awfully Big Adventure is concerned with her brief career as an actress in postwar Liverpool. 'The rarest of friends' 2010-07-02T16:00:00Z Men in Japan were just drab clones of each other in the postwar period. Fashion Diary: Studying the Preppy Look and its Reference Points 2010-07-23T22:30:00Z Since then, the couple have acquired the most celebrated names of postwar and contemporary art. How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z That talent eventually took him to the Royal College of Art in London just as the liberating atmosphere of the 1960s was about to eclipse Britain's lingering postwar gloom. Hockney bio brings artist to dandified life 2012-06-13T20:48:04Z “The cynical, disenchanted and footloose postwar youths of England, who justifiably have been termed ‘angry,’ never have been put into sharper focus,” A.H. ‘Room at the Top’: An Affair to Remember 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z As a result, she likens herself to a European postwar “D.P.”—displaced person—in New York. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The initial efflorescence of important African American art in postwar California, especially Los Angeles, is typically seen as emerging through assemblage techniques. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z With postwar passions still running high, Lifar’s partial reinstatement provoked protests. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Hardy is here well into his broodingly impassive hunk phase in this hefty adaptation of the historical bestseller, set in the postwar Soviet Union and based on a real case. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z That postwar period was dominated by Zane Grey’s westerns and Mary Roberts Rinehart’s mysteries, so it will be fascinating to see what Grandma was up to. Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z But a new era of international accords recognizes that Jews’ claims to Nazi-looted property in fact often were not handled fairly by postwar authorities in Europe. University of Oklahoma fights claim to a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Photograph: Andrew Testa The American composer Elliott Carter, who has died aged 103, was, apart from Pierre Boulez, the last survivor of the heroic age of postwar musical modernism, and perhaps its greatest exponent. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z He studied sociology at City College of New York, but dropped out a year before graduation and joined the postwar Army. William Klein, Who Photographed the Energy of City Life, Dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z The fire was brought under control at around 7am on Friday morning as authorities began to assess the damage to what is deemed a monument to postwar communal housing. Marseille's Cit? Radieuse damaged by fire 2012-02-10T10:41:36Z The market divides into four segments: 19th- and early 20th-century historical; 1920s to 1950s vintage; postwar; and contemporary, from the mid-1990s onward. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Photography Returns to Its Parisian Roots 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z The film, after all, tells of a couple torn apart by the Cultural Revolution, and it seems to be interested, more than most recent Zhang work, in revisiting postwar China. Cannes: For Zhang Yimou, a return to roots amid a turn to Hollywood 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z As in a suburban shopping mall, the center of the exhibit is a whole car: the huggable Fiat 500, one of the most charming symbols of the Italian postwar “economic miracle.” How “Good Design” Failed Us 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z If video-conferencing needs a patron saint, though, it is surely Yasujiro Ozu, the purveyor of such restrained, achingly humane studies of postwar family life as Tokyo Story, Late Spring and Floating Weeds. Need zing in your Zoom? Let Warhol and the avant-garde vamp up your video conferences 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Basil Fawlty reminds us that postwar Anglo-German relations weren't just complicated by changing economic fortunes and a rapidly unfolding European project, but also by increasingly divergent ideas of what humour could and should do. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z It captured that strange period between the end of postwar austerity and the start of what became known as the 60s, with all the hedonism that involved and which my character represented. Billy Liar ? still in town 2010-09-01T20:30:00Z From the time he graduated from Cornell in 1948 until the early 1960s, Mr. Friedman was by some standards a case study in postwar American business success. B. H. Friedman, a Novelist, Art Critic and Pollock Biographer, Is Dead at 84 2011-01-10T05:26:28Z The film industry reflected the concerns of the immediate postwar era and helped to assuage the anxieties of a frustrated public that, like "Miracle on 34th Street's" young protagonist, dreamed of a home. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z They also witnessed the mounting postwar frustrations among their neighbors, black men who had been enlisted to fight but whose freedoms remained limited upon their return home. Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, Artistic Giants of Postwar Harlem 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z A petite, ribald dynamo, Patachou was one of the most renowned French singers of the postwar period, known for her deep, husky voice; warm, earthy manner; and amiably irreverent stage persona. Patachou, a French Singer With a Habit of Snipping Neckties, Dies at 96 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z The idea that mass affluence posed grave perils for the bourgeois soul was mostly associated with American social critics during the great postwar boom. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z This beautiful book by Mazower, a historian at Columbia University, revolves around his grandfather Max’s enigmatic postwar silences. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Once in the United States, however, he discovered the German Expressionists George Grosz and Otto Dix, and the American postwar painter Philip Guston, who combined humorous, even cartoony iconography with masterly painting. Part Traditionalist, Part Naturalist, Part Dissident 2010-02-19T21:56:00Z That may help explain why postwar, women were dismissed from their jobs and pressured to return to the home. The Great War, and Great Change for Women 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z My field was postwar American fiction, which meant it was my job to read novels. I Quit Yale 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The subtext of the movie is the struggle of a Milanese industrial dynasty to cling to the values of postwar Italy. Design: If There Were an Oscar for Film Titles 2011-02-21T03:00:04Z Not long ago it was the most venturesome modern art museum in the country, recasting the history of postwar American art in shows like “A Minimal Future?” The Los Angeles Art Scene Looks to the World 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Hayes does an especially good job of explaining the musical landscape of postwar white America. Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Often imitated, seldom bettered, he is one of the giants of postwar American photography and, excellent as this book is, we can only hope the accompanying exhibition will make it to these shores soon. Garry Winogrand, edited by Leo Rubinfien et al – review 2013-05-18T23:05:28Z The museum also includes what Ingvild Krogvig, a curator focused on contemporary art, described as the first permanent overview exhibition of postwar Norwegian art in an Oslo museum. More Than Fjords: A New Museum to Put Oslo on the Map 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Ray Charles was one such artist, finding his way into the industry first as a bebop pianist on the Jackson Street scene in postwar Seattle. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Yet a closer look at Bauhaus and the German modernist architectural movement known as Neues Bauen, or New Objectivity, makes clear how little these movements had to do with the prefab obscenities of postwar modernism. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z We are seeing the emergence of an alternate lineage, an entirely female canon, that reaches back to the postwar period even as it builds in the present. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He worked with local experts and volunteers to create a show that echoes the polyphonic structure of “The Waste Land,” and explores its roots here in a specific time of postwar crisis. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z While differing widely in temperament, they were of a mind about the direction that postwar photography of the photojournalism sort should take. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Winspear's books are intriguing combinations of chilling postwar reality and the comforts of a classic British cozy. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z Sixty years ago, neo-Realist directors drew on postwar poverty and moral disarray as their principal leitmotifs. Film: China and Italy Meet in a Seaside Bar 2011-01-19T16:58:51Z And “Panorama” subtly wrestles with what it meant to be a significant artist in postwar Europe. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Gerhard Richter, Bruce Davidson, Cartoon Advertising, Football 2011-11-03T20:10:14Z “Hunters” is about a postwar hunt in New York for Nazi war criminals. Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series “Hunters” 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z One of the strangest fruits of his postwar Neo-Classicism was his infatuation with the pianola, a mechanical instrument that never missed a note or a cue and never grew tired. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z The social mobility of the postwar era is part of the subject of Gardam's trilogy, an ambitious and complex portrait of extraordinary times. Last Friends by Jane Gardam – review 2013-06-08T08:02:01Z Both are set in the waning days of World War II, as Nazis desperate for a postwar parachute are pursuing a trove of gold. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z In this memoir, written with a warm, intimate voice, she writes about growing up in postwar Brooklyn in a semi-observant Jewish family. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The action takes viewers from the dreary landscape of postwar East Berlin to the sun-drenched sights of Rome and the Italian coast. Tour the Stylish ’60s Sets of The Man from U.N.C.L.E 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Rama, after the early watercolors and a postwar period of rather negligible Informel painting, began to create dark abstract panels from which she hung sliced, deflated strips of rubber tires. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Not long ago I went to the Sherman theatre in Cardiff to see Say It With Flowers, a play with music about the rise and fall of postwar Welsh singer Dorothy Squires. Nights to remember at the theatre 2013-06-25T17:14:28Z Although he enjoyed great freedom to publish what he wanted, he reached the limits of his editor's patience with a series about postwar novels from around the world. Christopher MacLehose: A life in publishing 2012-12-28T22:55:09Z All I remember is being buffeted by gusts from across the plains, and then crossing a tiny stream into Velky Grob, a village of neat postwar homes with tiled facades and backyard grapevines. A Walk From Vienna to Budapest 2010-05-22T02:41:00Z In the postwar years this imperial collapse left the international financial environment vulnerable to slumps, inflations and depressions. Book review: ‘The Deluge, the post-World War I global order, by Adam Tooze 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “It’s a great painting, and it was totally undersold the last time,” said Brett Gorvy, Christie’s worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art. ‘Four Marilyns’ Is Back on the Auction Block 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z They were twin responses to the shattered postwar world – vast collages of competing voices which declared that the old ways were dead and new language was needed. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z “Initially, I wrote about all these as if war and peace were discrete: prewar, war, peace or postwar,” she said. Marilyn Young, Historian Who Challenged U.S. Foreign Policy, Dies at 79 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But while Levinson is not working from his own history as in “Diner” or “Avalon,” “The Survivor,” partly because of its subject matter and postwar milieu, feels of a piece with those overtly personal films. ‘The Survivor’ Review: Clenched Fists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The game-changer for me was Doris Lessing’s “Children of Violence” series, a five-novel bildungsroman stretching from colonial Rhodesia to postwar London. Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Citing the economic historian Karl Polanyi, Zuboff shows how postwar corporations were expected to offer some sort of communal reciprocity — hiring workers and hiking wages, sharing prosperity rather than hoarding it. O.K., Google: How Much Money Have I Made for You Today? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z This is the swampy world of postwar Rome in which Wächter died, believing himself “to be hunted by Americans, Poles, Soviets and Jews,” as Sands writes. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In the postwar period, such avant garde methods survived in the cut-up writings of William Burroughs and in the chaotic mythology, if not the actual composition, of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. As if by chance 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z The Village Voice would become the model for scores of alternative weeklies, but at its founding in 1955, its midwives thought mainly of giving expression to the sizzling postwar Greenwich Village scene. Jerry Tallmer, Critic Who Created the Obies, Dies at 93 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In some respects, Arte Povera followed on the heels of slightly earlier assemblage art in postwar California, which was driven by similar impulses. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z They were a tough generation – many had fought in the war or lived as vagrants during the Depression, including Charles – and exemplified the kind of grit that made postwar America prosper. There's no I in Eames 2010-10-26T09:47:00Z To keep steady in postwar Boston, Claire has had to push forward and hope that denial can be the same as healing. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 2: The Prison I Live in Now 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Just as Zimmer worked with Honegger in the spring of 1944 on “Chant de Libération,” in 1945 Bernard chose the composer for his first postwar film despite the contrast in their wartime fates. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z As soon as he could play, Mr. Gwangwa was swept up in the jazz boom in Sophiatown, a racially mixed Johannesburg neighborhood where a vibrant youth culture emerged in the postwar years. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Edythe Broad, who has helped to shape the museum’s collection of postwar and contemporary art, will lend her personal stamp on the dinner table centerpieces, inspired by her pop-up book collection. Ed Ruscha, meet Val Kilmer: Art world, Hollywood to collide at Broad museum parties 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Among them were waves of European migrants who flocked to "the Snowies" in the postwar years to toil on nation-building hydroelectric power installations. The Long Run: Australia's Storied Ski Heaven 2011-08-25T12:20:00Z It’s wonderfully evocative of the atmosphere of 1920s and postwar Vienna and of wartime London. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z “City Noir” is a symphonic meditation on what he calls “the dark, eerie chiaroscuro” of Hollywood noir films and the anxious energy of postwar Los Angeles. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z The action continues next week when the market for postwar and contemporary art is put to the test. A Manet Portrait Fuels High Prices on a Competitive Night for Christie’s 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z His best-selling trilogy — “The Runner,” “The Runner Sees Action” and “The Runner Slows Down,” is considered “the Iliad of postwar America.” Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z The benefits of homeownership swelled the ranks of the postwar middle class, transforming the economy while entrenching residential segregation. Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z For those 10 seconds, he said, he forgot he was living in a postwar zone. 2010-01-22T16:52:00Z In a range of ways, Southern California is beginning to make up for neglecting its public realm for the bulk of the postwar era. Two downtown L.A. parks and the tricky task of designing them to best serve the city 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z She specializes in the music and culture of postwar Britain, Benjamin Britten, English modernism and 20th-century opera. What Music to Expect at Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Arrayed in full-cut coats and accessorized in bright, saturated colors — an early shot lingers over the pulsating orange hues of her fingernails, her scarf and her hat — Carol is postwar glamour incarnate. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Underpinning this analysis is the classical conservative view that postwar state welfare systems created dependency on central government, weakening traditional systems of mutual assistance and depleting stores of self-reliance. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z This uplifting addition to Robinson’s Gilead series centers on an interracial romance in postwar St. Louis that was hinted at but not amplified in the three books that preceded it. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Another extraordinary photograph, of an empty hearse parked on a street of grimy terrace houses, seems to say it all: postwar Britain is a terminal case. Great Britain, Strange and Familiar 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Blas and Mr. Duenas also pointed to signs of Guam’s long postwar rebirth, not just the gleaming buildings of Tamuning or the new subdivisions going up, but also a cultural revival. Guam Is Suddenly in the News. But What Is It Like to Travel There? 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z This year, the annual Focus Festival, curated by Joel Sachs, looks at the utterly central role of radio stations and broadcasting companies as commissioners of new music in the postwar period. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z He emerged, aged 20, into a world of opportunities – the first being postwar government funding for GIs to train for a career. Tony Curtis obituary 2010-09-30T13:06:00Z And the winner is: "Ida," Pawel Pawlikowski's compelling, compact drama set in postwar Poland also received an Oscar nomination for its elegant, black-and-white photography. With some 'surefire' films shunned, a horse race gets underway 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z He weaves together the Joe DiMaggio-Ted Williams rivalry and the Yankees-Sox rivalry with a great pennant race, all the while describing some of the many changes affecting baseball in the postwar era. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Baseball's Opening Week 2012-04-06T16:28:27Z Two years later, the base, known as Camp Lockett, became a postwar convalescent hospital and held Italian and German prisoners of war. In Campo, 25 feet from the Mexican border, California’s Old West roots remain 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The Broad museum, in preparation for its Sept. 20 opening in downtown Los Angeles, announced Tuesday that it has acquired more than 50 works for its 2,000-plus collection of postwar and contemporary art. Broad museum acquires 50-plus works in advance of opening 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z "There's also a touch of postwar frugality, with the mini sizes that look like the clothes that young women actually wore during World War II, when they just had to make due." Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z Now Christie’s is selling what is left of their postwar and contemporary art, prints, African art, 20th-century photographs and decorative works, which are expected to bring more than $30 million. Inside Art: Barnett Newman’s ‘Onement VI,’ at Sotheby’s 2013-04-18T21:17:37Z More than on postwar Germany, the United Kingdom or Japan. ‘It’s John against the world right now’ And yet, while “Brigadoon” may at first glance seem irredeemably locked in a mood of postwar optimism, on deeper inspection, it reveals some intriguingly darker undercurrents. ‘Brigadoon,’ a Musical Revival at the Goodman Theater 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z That brand of cynicism wafted through last week’s Gangster Squad, in which a posse of rogue-cop heroes applied a blood colonic to postwar L.A. The Mystery of Broken City: Who Killed the New York Crime Drama? 2013-01-18T15:23:42Z Thea Sharrock is reviving David Hare's fine play of postwar disillusionment, Plenty, in the Sheffield Crucible Studio, where the Hare season will continue with Racing Demon and Breath of Life. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-02-04T17:25:21Z Traditional in structure and sometimes veering into potboiler territory, the Naples novels follow the friendship of two women, Elena and Lila, from their impoverished childhoods in postwar Naples well into the women's 60s. Elena Ferrante, Author of Naples Novels, Stays Mysterious 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In our journey through the museum, he has been our Virgil, our calm, sage guide through the hell and heaven of postwar racial history. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Here, says America In Primetime, is a figure that encapsulates 60 years of American TV maleness, from the sexless omniscience of the postwar breadwinner to the achy-breaky self-doubt of today's Mr Boo Hoos. America In Primetime, an engrossing squint at US television 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z Not easy postwar times for most people, but I like to think that Old Pat and Jim enjoyed being together. Family life 2011-08-12T23:06:13Z As anxieties over nuclear testing and the effects of radiation swept postwar America, Mr. Gordon embarked on a low-budget filmmaking odyssey that turned mutated monsters loose on the hapless world. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z At the time Cleveland was on a serious upswing – the postwar manufacturing boom had been very kind. Numero Group: the crate-digging record label's top 10 2013-06-13T16:05:50Z With a career that spans from the optimism of postwar reconstruction to the neurotic hyper-consumption of the early 21st century, it's difficult to know where to start with Grange's work. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z In its postwar rebuilding, Hiroshima decided to conserve the dome as it was in 1961, leaving it as an icon of devastation in a city where such scars were quickly becoming invisible. A sad reminder of nuclear devastation 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The internet is only the latest in a procession that includes telephones, televisions and jet planes, and of course the postwar prosperity that enabled people to make use of these tools. How the Internet Has Left Its Mark on Terroir 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Because back then, it was postwar and a matter of survival. Han who? Sung Kang on his new "Snakehead" bad boy: "Even his hairstyle – he's overcompensating" 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z "Dr. No" arrived in movie theaters with perfect timing, as Britain swapped postwar austerity for growing prosperity. No mid-life crisis for 007 as Bond films turn 50 2012-10-02T15:43:12Z But he also made some of the first shaped canvases of the postwar period. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The UK's largest surviving estate of postwar prefab houses, described by conservationists as a unique slice of 20th-century social history, is set to be bulldozed and replaced by modern . Largest postwar prefab estate to be demolished 2011-01-02T18:39:33Z Each show devotes uncommon attention and expense to its period details — costumes, décor, automobiles and even large sets and soundstages — recreating Weimar Berlin and postwar Naples, the better to envelop us in the illusion. Escaping Into ‘Babylon Berlin’ and ‘My Brilliant Friend’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The books have scenes in London, Paris, Moscow, New York and Vienna, but their primary locale is Berlin, a city of endless conflict and intrigue in the postwar years. ‘The Unfortunate Englishman’: a stylish spy thriller set in postwar Berlin 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Prefabs were a blind alley of postwar rehousing. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z Like the postwar Vienna of Reed’s classic, “The Departed” teems with compromised and untrustworthy characters. A Guide to Watching Scorsese Movies Like an Insider 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And yet you can hear the excitement of discovery; the turbulence of the times; and the dark, dank, grey streets of postwar London. Old music: The Graham Collier Sextet – Lullaby for a Lonely Child 2012-06-18T08:37:56Z What is this world of postwar America, what are its rules? Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann – review 2012-08-08T09:30:02Z For an hour and a half I sat shivering as we glided through history, from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 to the city’s postwar revival and beyond. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z After their liberation, they let loose for Decca; the Eloquence set superbly reproduces the orchestra’s distinctive postwar timbre, as well as Munch’s intensity of expression. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The commercial art market has changed since 2008, with the focus on postwar, blue-chip art such as Warhol, Basquiat, Calder, Bacon, Lichtenstein, Rothko, Kline etc accounting for a large majority of the total auction sales. Damien Hirst's split from Larry Gagosian turns heads in art world 2013-01-06T16:01:24Z The postwar years were the heyday of the popular American pictorial magazines, with Life and Look leading the charge. Stanley Kubrick: Before He Wrote Scripts, He Took Photos 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z In that book, “Bonjour Tristesse,” she described the hedonism and amorality of youth, the hedonism and amorality of well-heeled French intellectuals, the hedonism and amorality of postwar Europe on the cusp of the sixties. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Hidden is about the nagging doubt in the mind of the west that its placid postwar prosperity is teetering on a cliff edge. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Scratch that – revolutions, plural; there wasn’t a cause on the postwar left for which he didn’t pitch in, add his skills and offer his two cents. Haskell Wexler, the genius cinematographer committed to the left 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Deftly weaving academic inquiry with personal and familial narratives, Ramsey traces what he calls “Afro-modernism” and the various social and political intersections of black music in postwar America through the 1990s. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “Damien was one of the most radical artists of postwar Britain, both as a sculptor and as a thinker,” Braka said. Damien Hirst and the Art of the Deal 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z The major players of the postwar food world walk through this book and few are spared. Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Back in postwar Europe, she turned to the task of reconstruction, designing minimally sized rooms in university dorms that synthesized color, form and composition in succinct masterworks of function. Charlotte Perriand, Stepping Out of Corbusier’s Shadow 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The beautiful Rose Burgunder had confessed her wealthy background to William Styron only after they had taken up together, two young postwar expats in Rome encouraged in their romance by Truman Capote. Memoir of a ‘Very Large Life,’ With Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Jamie Fisher is a freelance writer working on a novel set in postwar Italy. ‘To Siri With Love’: The tale of a mother, a son and a phone 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The history of postwar American abstract painting remains a work in progress. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The rest of the disc takes in the postwar movies that see Jennings struggling to continue the moral certainties of the wartime propaganda pictures. The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy 2013-07-27T23:05:17Z And individual artists, many positioning themselves in resistance to postwar political and social authority, joined forces in collectives. Art Review: ‘Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde’ at MoMA 2012-11-15T22:48:46Z Still, it would have been churlish to disallow the cyclist his gruffness: Briercliffe's passion for his hobby was pivotal in encouraging and prolonging the postwar cycling boom. TV Review: Britain By Bike and Baby Beauty Queens 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z A letter from June 1942 details his efforts to establish crafts courses, “as a method of vocational training looking towards postwar survival.” Isamu Noguchi’s Efforts to Improve Life in an Internment Camp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Bill Nighy plays a postwar civil servant in London whose great ambition, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, is to build a playground. 159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Rather like a designer, it appears, and his unexpected uptown postwar digs. Arthur Dunnam 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z Bailey grew up in the hardscrabble neighborhoods of London’s East End, during the final years of postwar rationing. The Rolling Stones, David Bailey and Taschen's big, pricey book 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Originally known as Salem Village, Danvers is most associated with the famous witch trials of 1692 - the inspiration for Miller's classic play that draws parallels with McCarthy's anti-communist investigations in postwar America. 'It's a full-body experience' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z This lavish, thrillingly revisionist show challenges the bias of postwar American art history in favor of New York, abstraction and Conceptual art. Review: ‘What Nerve!’ Presents an Alternative History of American Art 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Both houses will auction contemporary and postwar works a week later. Expectations high for record spending at New York art auctions 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The postwar high heels reflect postwar American society's move from rural to suburban, with open-toed shoes and spiked heels. Yakima shoe show strolls through history 2011-02-12T04:44:01Z It set the agenda and was a window into the burgeoning affluence of the postwar generation. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z It was to create feminine clothing with less formality and more freedom than what was being shown in postwar couture. At Chloé, Clare Waight Keller Pushes Femininity Forward, but It’s More Modern 2012-10-17T23:23:02Z “The whole of Japan changed from a rather military pre-war style to a postwar economic powerhouse, and obviously the emperor was part of that.” Japan's slide into war chronicled in Emperor Hirohito's memoir 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “No one in Hemingway’s postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.” Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z We both grew up working class, and we were well educated as a result of the postwar college boom. Richard Goldstein's 'Another Little Piece of My Heart' recalls '60s 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Immediately after the war, Monnet was an economic nationalist, advocating for French control of the German Ruhr to ensure French domination of postwar European steel production. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z As a young man in postwar Belgium, De Keyser pursued a reasonably successful career as a journalist, commentating eclectically on sport and art. Raoul de Keyser obituary 2012-10-14T15:40:33Z Next month the British Film Institute launches a retrospective of documentaries that were made during that 30-year era known as the postwar settlement. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable! 2010-10-23T06:00:00Z He and his talented brood — he and Hattie had nearly two dozen children — were fixtures of Washington’s postwar country music boom. Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ shines a spotlight on an unsung Washingtonian 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z According to data provided by the London analysts ArtTactic, Christie’s and Sotheby’s raised a total of $3.7 billion last year from sales of postwar and contemporary works in New York and London. A Year of Highs and Corrections in the Art Market 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z One role the postwar, professional, “objective” daily newspaper played was to referee the political fights, to decide, through coverage decisions or omission or outright editorializing, which positions were mainstream and which weren’t. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z Gordon played the role of outsider in Danish art, unaffected by events within it, his paintings in the style of postwar abstract impressionism based on literature and music. Gordon Fazakerley obituary 2011-08-11T17:21:27Z Mr. Margolius, after studying economics and working for an organization to rebuild Czechoslovakia’s postwar industry, was offered a post in the ministry of foreign trade after the Communists assumed power in 1948. Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91 2010-12-09T05:29:00Z This show includes fascinating documents of large-scale Nigerian infrastructure works, some masterminded by Milica Steric, one of the few women in the first rank of postwar European architects. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Other women became almost professional widows, making what Elder calls “a postwar career” of it. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z “Moscow and New York are incredibly alike these days,” said Mr. Nikitin, who added that the midnight-to-dawn bike tour of Manhattan would focus on architecture and sites evocative of the city’s postwar culture. In Transit Blog: Taking Manhattan by Bike (the Russian Way) 2011-09-16T15:23:53Z A central figure in the book, and one of the most absorbing characters of the postwar era, is Stewart Brand. The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He was nominated for a Tony for his 1983 role in David Hare’s play “Plenty” as a diplomat in postwar Europe. Edward Herrmann, actor who played FDR and ‘Gilmore Girls’ father, dies at 71 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z While browsing street-style blogs, I began to notice that fashion-forward young women were trading in their lip gloss for the crisp, matte, sharply etched reds of wartime pinups and postwar Hollywood starlets. | The Stained Look Comes to Lipstick 2013-08-16T13:00:25Z In postwar America there were two reigning fashion designers, one on the East Coast and one on the West: Norman Norell and the much younger James Galanos. ‘James Galanos: Design Integrity’ Review: The West Coast King of Fashion 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Maybe you associate New York with the fizzy glamour of those midcentury Rock Hudson-Doris Day romances, with the noir shadows of the immediate postwar years or with the penthouses and streetcars of classic studio comedies. The City So Nice They Can’t Stop Making Movies About It 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Though Eiland and Jennings arrange Benjamin’s life and work into not just chronological but a rough evolutionary order, they never argue that this evolution gestures toward any particular region of the postwar intellectual landscape. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z Finally, for his first film as director, Ewan McGregor has chosen to adapt Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, a postwar drama about a family coping with political turmoil. Lights, camera, aliens … what we’ll be talking about at the movies next year 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Quietly charismatic, able to flicker from steeliness to desperation with an eye movement or a hand gesture, Ms. Hoss embodies Mr. Petzold’s fluctuating idea of postwar Germany itself: vain, guilty, vulnerable, confused. Review: ‘Phoenix’ Shows Rebirth and a Ruse in Postwar Germany 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z His family is selling 31 works on Tuesday and another 117 on Wednesday as part of Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale. 'Flag' auction could set record for Jasper Johns work 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z “An exciting new discovery at Christie’s,” read a statement from Francis Outred, the head of the postwar and contemporary art department in Europe for Christie’s. Inside Art: Christie’s to Auction Bacon Work 2012-06-21T20:52:27Z But all is not well in Juliet’s placid and somewhat dull postwar world. Review | Kate Atkinson’s new spy novel toys with our expectations 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z After his discharge from the army, he peddled tofu in impoverished postwar South Korea before joining a traveling musical theater troupe, in which he sang and performed in variety shows. Song Hae, Who Survived War and Poverty to Become a Beloved TV Host, Dies at 95 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Right, I was fascinated to learn how small the houses were in Levittown on Long Island, the most famous postwar suburb. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z A political leftist and an aesthetic snob, Macdonald surveyed the abundance of postwar America with a skeptical eye. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Like Emma, the reader too might prefer that Fife stop torturing himself in public, indulging in what is at times a kind of baroque self-recrimination complete with the sexist presumptions of the postwar American male. After a Life Built on Lies, a Dying Man Comes Clean 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Homer, Marge and the rest of the family were the archetypal middle-class family that existed in that decade, the last lingering days of the postwar boom. “The Simpsons” hasn’t declined due to bad writing; its outdated politics no longer make sense 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Along with a concert hall that would be the envy of any big city is the Anderson Collection, a home for a trove of postwar modern and contemporary art that opened in September. On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z For instance, “The Postcard” explores the unsettling reality of postwar France, where Holocaust survivors were silenced for decades in an attempt to allow the country to start with a clean slate after the Nazi occupation. An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Sales of postwar and contemporary art represented 46 percent of these sales by value, with modern works making up 30 percent. Tefaf Faces Competitive Headwinds 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Kaplan, 32, is a vice president and a specialist in the postwar and contemporary art department at Christie’s New York. Emily Kaplan, David Rosenberg 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z In less than 20 minutes, he provides a gravitas to Hemingway’s postwar experiences. Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z There are several new — as in postwar — hotels in Monrovia. 2010-01-22T16:52:00Z “This was the dirty secret of the postwar art world, and people who should have known better were part of it,” Mr. Lauder said. Senate Bill Would Help Recover Art Stolen by Nazis 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Visually arresting, technically ambitious and personally urgent, it can feel like a missing link between the abstract expressionists of the postwar years and the minimalists and conceptualists of the ’70s and ’80s. Perspective | Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead, Corneille and his friends formed a united front in postwar Europe, urging a break from tradition and toward freedom and vitality. Corneille, Dutch Artist With a Lyrical Modernism, Dies at 88 2010-09-07T02:00:00Z Much of postwar Dutch literature is written by ex-Protestants bitter about their severe upbringing. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z Scott was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, but spent his schooldays in postwar northern Germany, his father being an official with the Allied Control Council, which oversaw the defeated powers. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z James comes from that remarkable generation of ambitious postwar Australians – other members are Robert Hughes and Germaine Greer – who felt they had to get out. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z Last week the critic Gabriel Josipovici dismissed the "big names" of the postwar British literary tradition as "limited, smart alecky, arrogant, and self-satisfied", but I dispute that. Is the Booker a barometer of the best literature? 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z TH By "successful", you mean in terms of raising living standards in the postwar years? From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z When she died in 2007, she was one of the most influential — and feared — American critics of the postwar era. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The hosts say they thought they were tough, pressing him, for example, on the role of white racial backlash in fueling postwar conservatism. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The five most devastating intrastate or interstate conflicts of the postwar decades — in China, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and between Iran and Iraq — took place during the Cold War. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z It slowly leaks out that she’s not in Singapore but apparently doing dangerous postwar intelligence work. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Though the postwar art of his own time was his focus for decades, he started embracing late 19th-century painters like Cézanne and van Gogh, now going up for auction. S.I. Newhouse Jr.’s Collection of Modern Masters Comes to Christie’s 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z And a man’s white shirt, worn by a Civil War veteran and amputee, has one of its sleeves sewn up — not an uncommon postwar alteration, as a nearby Winslow Homer engraving shows. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z Before “My Bed” was auctioned at Christie’s postwar and contemporary art sale on July 1, Ms. Emin told the BBC that she hoped a benefactor would buy it and donate it to a museum. Tracey Emin's 'My Bed' Headed to the Tate 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly’s importance in American postwar art was increasingly acknowledged from the late 1970s onward, in part thanks to strong gallery representation. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Born in Frankfurt to Holocaust survivors, Mr. Rosen grew up an outsider, a Jew in postwar Germany. Aby Rosen Is the Life of the Party 2013-05-29T19:51:55Z “This group represents a long tradition of artists who collected each other’s work,” said Laura Paulson, a director of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s. Christie’s to Sell Works From Twombly’s Collection 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z They were all reacting against hollow, regimented postwar societies, but as I recall it I found the American writers altogether more positive, expansive and ebullient than their bitter British contemporaries. On the Road – review 2012-10-13T23:06:07Z He played an invaluable role in the development of the entire postwar Japanese avant-garde scene. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z He composed orchestral, chamber and other music that found rare stylistic range within the broad confines of postwar modernism. Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z For today’s socially conscious British filmmakers, northern England is more or less what southern Italy was to the postwar neorealists: a landscape of social misery, both picturesque and harsh. Movie Review: ‘The Selfish Giant,’ Directed by Clio Barnard 2013-12-19T23:03:38Z This is the design school museum’s broadest exhibition so far – more than 40 artists — of postwar art and design. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z A draft bill permitting the free trade of works less than 70 years old — virtually all postwar art — is in the process of being approved by the Italian Senate. In the Shadow of Art Basel and Frieze 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It takes us through the artist’s postwar reunion with Ernst, who came to seem less like a liberator and more like a drag on her energies. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z He describes postwar Berlin as a "mirror image of the splintered whole … divided fractiously … a little smackerel of it even going to French …" with a Nabokovian playfulness. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z Mr. Chamberlain’s bent and folded metal pieces have a beautiful excess and also brought a new level of abstraction and color to postwar sculpture. ‘Chamberlain/Prouvé’ at Gagosian Gallery 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Gunther is one of crime fiction’s most gratifyingly melancholy creations, and in “Prussian Blue” we watch him match wits with the officialdom of two Germanys, pre- and postwar. ‘Prussian Blue’: Philip Kerr’s crime fiction at its best 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Working as a female artist in postwar America was a difficult challenge, she said. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born abstract artist, dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Among her postwar duties was a tour of Southeast Asia, where she concluded that the nascent independence movements in Indonesia, Vietnam and elsewhere were anti-colonialism, not pro-communism. 'A Covert Affair': Julia Child and Paul Child in a true spy story 2011-03-23T23:02:03Z That face – as hangdog as his childhood hero Tony Hancock's – made Smith, who has died of a heart attack aged 60, one of the most recognisable of postwar British comedians. Mel Smith 2013-07-21T16:12:44Z Mr. Amis’s talent was undeniable: He was the most dazzling stylist in postwar British fiction. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z But on Friday they will appear in part of “The Great Learning,” Cornelius Cardew’s masterpiece of the postwar avant-garde that is in equal parts live music, performance art and social experiment. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z In that postwar year, an average of 30 tickets were sold to every man, woman and child. Hollywood Harakiri: A Bad 2011 for the Movie Business 2012-01-15T18:55:01Z Still, given that several lots sold for single bids against guaranteed prices, others described the evening postwar and contemporary sale as lackluster. A Richter, Owned by Clapton, Fetches $22 Million at Christie’s 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Regrettably, Feigel does not confine herself to these lives in wartime, but tries to encompass their postwar careers as well. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z Historians dispute the impact of China's postwar reforms – although few deny that millions died in the brutally mismanaged Great Leap Forward. A Chinese Life by Li Kunwu and P Ôtié – review 2012-10-12T07:00:01Z "The Hour" has been hailed for recasting a time usually remembered in Britain as a gray era of postwar austerity. BBC drama 'The Hour' back to make the 1950s sexy 2012-11-28T18:16:04Z Their scenes are rendered in the free brushwork of the best of postwar fashion illustration, such as one rarely encounters today. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z In the postwar years, Auerbach found exhilarating subject matter in the bombed sites that still littered London, and evoked the city’s postwar reconstruction in dynamic compositions of thrusting diagonals and verticals balanced by geometric forms. At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z What all this meant for womanhood, and particularly for motherhood as it was understood in the postwar United States, remains central to the story. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z A postwar American career was stymied when Lom was denied a visa, though he later appeared on U.S. Pink Panther Actor Herbert Lom Dead at 95 2012-09-27T16:17:21Z The list of postwar New York painters, dealers, and critics who pass through this documentary by Emile de Antonio is admittedly a little clubby — Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Leo Castelli, Clement Greenberg. 15 Documentaries That Get Inside an Artist’s Head 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It brought together singers and instrumentalists who had worked with all three composers with artists from a new postwar generation who were tackling this repertory for the first time. The RIAS Second Viennese School Project – review 2012-12-05T15:30:01Z Experts at the auction house Christie's made the discovery about Study for Self-portrait ahead of its planned sale in next month's London sales of postwar and contemporary art. Francis Bacon's body turns out to be Lucian Freud's in self-portrait 2012-05-25T15:51:40Z To complicate matters, his wife, a fellow musician, was Japanese, making their choice of a postwar home problematic. Adams, Namkung: nature at Woodside/Braseth 2011-09-29T20:05:03Z In addition to being one of the most important sculptors of the postwar period and a pioneer of the Minimalist movement, he was combative, doctrinaire and wholly uncompromising about his work. BAM Has a New Display of Michael Graves Murals 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z There are other classic works, such as "Woman Standing – Pink" by Willem de Kooning, Pollock's chief rival for postwar artistic supremacy, and Sam Francis' flutter of cellular color, "Red in Red." Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It is then, as Vienna prepares to open its new postwar opera house with an ex-Nazi on the podium, that we are explicitly asked to consider the connected problems of historical memory and premonition. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think about postwar Warley, but I don't think I'm supposed to want to move there. TV review: Room at the Top; Doomsday Preppers 2012-09-26T21:00:02Z Noir arose, say some analysts, as a reaction to the horrors of the war and the peril of an atomic postwar world when there was a sense that we had reached the end of days. A race to the finish in the age of edge 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Gatsby claims to be from old money, to have studied at Oxford and dabbled in painting, like the best class of America’s postwar emigres in Europe. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z "Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles" captures L.A. as it transforms from rural Western outpost to full-on postwar urban/suburban center knitted together by traffick-y freeways. 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Photograph: David Redfern The Modern Jazz Quartet is one of the most astonishing cultural phenomena of the postwar period. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z The design entrepreneur Rosamind Julius, who has died aged 86, helped to change the face of Britain in the early postwar period. Rosamind Julius obituary 2010-07-01T17:47:00Z The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Margaret grew up in postwar Manhattan, a daughter of German parents who fled the Nazis. Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The Beyeler has long-term loans from the Louise Bourgeois estate and the Calder Foundation, for example, and has received a gift of works from the Renard collection of mostly postwar European art. Basel’s Beyeler Builds Out for the Future 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Eagle Has Landed sold more than 50m copies worldwide, and has become one of the landmark thrillers of the postwar years. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Many of these new visions would have been inconceivable even during the headiest days of the postwar black and brown racial revolution. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Last year, postwar and contemporary works by artists born after 1910 generated 52 percent of the value of the world’s fine-art auction sales, their highest share, according to a recent report. Collectors Shy Away From Art Market’s Former Darlings 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The original entrance is closed, so you have to enter this century-old granite building through an ugly postwar lobby annex. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z He was also known for directing some of the leading British and American actors of the postwar period. Bryan Forbes, ‘Stepford Wives’ Director, Dies at 86 2013-05-09T00:42:58Z Paradis’s book tells how four Japanese officers held responsible for the killing of the Doolittle airmen were tried as suspected war criminals by a United States military commission in postwar Shanghai. Trying the Japanese for War Crimes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Later he emerged as a kind of philosopher king of the postwar nuclear era, publicly opposing the development of the hydrogen bomb and becoming a symbol both of America’s technological genius and of its conscience. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The young poet quickly became a fixture of the city's postwar literary circles, which initially accepted Soviet-imposed ideology in art and literature, and she joined the communist party in 1952. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z In her autobiography, she seemed surprised by the postwar hostility towards Harlan, astonished that their children were taunted as Nazis at school in Sweden. The 'Nazi Marilyn Monroe': Goebbels had very nice eyes – but he was a devil! 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z A creature of the European postwar avant-garde, Marker would seem an unlikely influence on modern Hollywood. The Inspiration Issue: What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ 2012-09-26T15:52:19Z A robust figurative painting tradition emerged in the 1980s in West Germany in reaction, some say, to the brooding, abstract work of postwar German artists like Joseph Beuys. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z “Living” transposes “Ikiru” to a gloomy postwar London filled with buttoned-up men of dignity; bowler-hat-wearing worker bees who commute in and out of the city with the solemn demeanor of churchgoers. ‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Like many powerful men, he retains a deep desire to be accepted by the working class world he arose from — in his case, a postwar industrial Leeds of poverty and broken homes. Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z At an outdoor cafe in Silver Lake, he talked about Black homes that were torched in the postwar era, about the racial epithet posted on Nat King Cole’s lawn. In ‘Them,’ a Black Family Is Haunted by Real-Life Monsters 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The galleries dominated by postwar American art are the most confused and arbitrary, but they also roil with different sensibilities. Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built ? Review 2011-12-26T15:29:45Z For the last six years Mr. Elderfield has immersed himself in the work of de Kooning, who helped define the shape of postwar American art. De Kooning Retrospective Is to Open at MoMA 2011-09-13T17:57:51Z McLaughlin is among the most profound avant-garde painters to work in the United States in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was World War II. He’s also Southern California’s first momentous postwar artist. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But those movies were reflections of the realities of the postwar political economy. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The lyrics Ms. Wells sang, written by J. D. Miller, merely expressed sympathy for “fallen” women, but given rising divorce rates and changing sexual mores in postwar America, the song resounded like a proto-feminist anthem. Kitty Wells, Country Singer, Dies at 92 2012-07-16T21:02:25Z Golden clouds glow over a cheerful postwar Tokyo, where a dignified-looking General MacArthur salutes a city of baseball fields, Western-style buildings and strolling citizens. Art and Politics Meet in Boston, Sometimes All Night 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z In postwar Baltimore, Black neighborhoods were condemned as sources of tuberculosis before they were razed to the ground. Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The books trace the lives of two women from their childhoods in poverty in Naples into the middle class against the backdrop of Italian postwar history, exploring the complexities of female friendship. Who Is the Real Elena Ferrante? Italian Journalist Reveals His Answer 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z How a once idyllic postwar town fell under the sway of a teen-age gang. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Prize marrows and a group of handbell enthusiasts convey notions of postwar modesty and aspiration. Gloriana; 66th Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-22T23:05:50Z “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is important the way shows of postwar geometric abstraction are. A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z One of the great event movies of the postwar era and an inspired exploitation nightmare that sensationally took Hitchcock – then in late middle-age – to the next level of cinematic greatness. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z As for the most popular categories of our online auctions, they are postwar and contemporary art, fashion and photographs, followed by wine and jewelry. Christie's Ramps Up Online-Only Sales 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In this model postwar world, a dapper man mixes cocktails while an elegant woman peels oranges in the kitchen. A world of change in 250 photos at London exhibition 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The institute holds an archive of about 30 original Heukels photos from the Dutch Ministry of Justice, which confiscated them as part of his postwar collaboration trial. Photos That Helped to Document the Holocaust Were Taken by a Nazi 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until years after his parents died that the director Pawel Pawlikowski saw how to transform their tumultuous postwar romance into a film. In ‘Cold War,’ a Filmmaker Takes His Parents’ Love Story and Runs With It 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Anyone drawn to postwar New York’s art scene that centered in part on East 10th Street should read the last book of Mr. Sandler, the art historian and critic extraordinaire who died in June. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The postwar period was strong for The New Yorker’s fiction department and for American fiction in general. “Brad’s Status” feels like a movie about America in 2017, but it’s more timeless 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Arising from the desolation of postwar Germany, it was “an attempt to put some kind of order on a musical world after this total disorder had happened.” 109 Players. 3 Conductors. It’s Even Harder Than It Sounds. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z But she had no intention of relinquishing an iota of the visual power or immediacy staked out by preceding postwar art movements. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z It ends with Allied efforts to cleanse postwar Germany of any vestige of Nazi propaganda. The art of propaganda: Central Library exhibition pulls Nazi past into the present 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The miners came from Bottrop, a city in western Germany, where the country’s last coal mine closed in December, marking the end of an industry that played a vital role in Germany’s postwar economic success. Fashion Gets Down and Dirty 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z In Europe and North America the postwar baby boom tailed off. A global population of 10 billion is nothing to worry about 2013-06-14T08:59:17Z Her troubles are deeper than plain old patriarchy, though, and derive also from Nazism, and the ways in which fascism transforms from public to private menace, a postwar spectre of cruelty and destruction. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “The show presents her as an artist of formidable discipline, consistency and clarity of purpose, and a key player in any history of postwar art.” Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z By the postwar years, black string bands were, at most, a local hobby. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z Dreazen uses one military family’s tragedy to examine the troubling rise of postwar suicides. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Spring chose to focus on postwar France, but for many of the writers he chronicles those years were difficult. Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z As the division develops, it will encompass other fine art categories of the period, including American, Latin American and modern and postwar British art. Sotheby’s, in a Gamble, Acquires Boutique Art Advisory Firm 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z According to the auction house, 72 postwar and contemporary artworks sold for just under $660 million in a New York evening auction. Christie's Sold Over $1 Billion Worth of Artwork in 3 Days 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The story follows the lives of two Australian-born sisters over decades of their lives in postwar Britain. Shirley Hazzard in The New Yorker 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z A balmy Saturday morning finds most of the gardens well tended and the plain, postwar semis in a good state of repair. Back to Bradford: Andrea Dunbar remembered on film 2010-04-12T20:35:00Z The house, known as Geller I, helped Breuer to develop the style that made him a leading postwar architect, historians said. Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z From Old Master drawings and blue-chip postwar prints to sculptural installations by up-and-coming contemporary artists, collectible art of all kinds is now at your fingertips. How to Buy Art Online 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Mostly, they wrote in a language and style intended for the city’s postwar wave of Cuban and Puerto Rican newcomers, the obvious audience. On Religion: Decades Later, the Clave Beat Goes on for Latin Jazz and Jewish Musicians 2014-03-22T02:01:29Z Hi Duk Lee, who arrived in Los Angeles from South Korea in 1968, became the most outspoken champion of the area's postwar growth. Koreatown's cool old buildings point to L.A.'s future 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z The sentiment was perfectly in tune with postwar America – a time and place of both space-age optimism and cold war uncertainty. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He does nothing awful in the war or in his prewar or postwar life, or in his life on the planet Tralfamadore. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The Lyons prints remain an evocative snapshot of a distinctive moment in time – a period when utility and invention worked together – and a reflection of Britain's undemonstrative but confident postwar self-image. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z Burlesque lost its luster in the postwar years. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Part of that broadening involves acknowledging the brutal ironies that attached themselves to the work of non-white L.A. architects in the postwar decades. Credit where it's due: Why Gin Wong never quite became one of L.A. architecture's household names 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z He’s met the who’s who of the postwar avant-garde and formed his own opinions. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z And he brought to this country — not for the first time but with pathbreaking energy and detail — some of the adventurous spirit of postwar European artists. In DVD of ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Hints of Sellars’s Future 2012-06-08T19:21:28Z The real problem for MoMA, at least until now, is that most of Oppenheim’s work dated from the postwar era, when the golden years of high European modernism were past and American art dominated. Meret Oppenheim: Enough With That Tempest in a Teacup 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z What of the Geometry of Fear, Britain's answer to French postwar existentialism and angst? Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs 2011-01-18T21:31:01Z Sloughing off the baggage of postwar politics, Lévi-Strauss offered a way out.” Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Two of her films captured the rigors of the immediate postwar years and the possibility of renewal amid the ruins. Setsuko Hara, Japanese Star of Films by Ozu and Kurosawa, Is Dead at 95 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The business lobbies of the postwar years knew what they wanted and generally got it, but theirs was a limited agenda that stuck to a relatively narrow set of demands. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Because the end of Hitler did not mean the end of Stalin, and because some of the eventual Russian gains were to prove as appalling as the incalculable losses, postwar relief was laced with tension. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Symphony #9’ Has City Center Premiere 2012-10-20T02:30:07Z It was polished, in the tradition of the postwar masters, but it lacked their whimsy and quirkiness; it appeared to be all business. At Home in the World 2010-10-12T14:29:00Z Today, the Blitz’s legacy is seen in places like Wapping and the Barbican complex, in the absence of pretty Victorian homes and the plethora of Brutalist postwar apartment blocks. For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z “After New York and Basel, it was a challenge to keep clients focused,” said Brett Gorvy, Christie’s worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art. Critic’s Notebook: Art Fatigue in London 2013-06-28T22:17:49Z They reverse the common trajectory of postwar American abstract sculpture, where bigger has typically been thought to be better. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z His next films were similarly frugal productions, somewhat quixotic attempts to make art films in postwar Hollywood. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Rosen grew up in postwar Britain wondering about his missing relatives. Michael Rosen: ‘Stories hung in the air about great-aunts and uncles who’d gone’ 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Titled “Bourbier” — “quagmire” — the picture is, in this context anyway, like an unshakable postwar dream of trauma. ‘Thin Skin’: ‘Six Artists from Beirut’ 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “When I was doing graphic design in the postwar period, architecture was going to save the world,” she recalled. Elaine Lustig Cohen, Designer Who Left Her Mark Everywhere, Dies at 89 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Focussing on Magnum’s bond with his Navy buddies T.C. and Rick, the original series touched on the postwar experience of Vietnam veterans and anticipated “The A-Team” as an action show working through cultural P.S.T.D. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z That the show would embrace the theme of postwar feminism is unsurprising, probably even inevitable, but not particularly dramatic in its own right. ‘Marvel’s Agent Carter’ Debuts on ABC 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “What the chino or the white T-shirt was to postwar America is now being replaced by sweats,” he said. Check Out That Dude 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z With “Son of Saul,” we wanted to forget all the postwar perceptions and, let’s be frank, the deformed vision of the Holocaust. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The project would be his only major postwar construction in his country of birth. A 6-Year Refit Winds Back the Clock at a Berlin Landmark 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z They recently exec-produced the Oscar-nominated documentary American Factory and have a number of projects on the way, including a drama series called Bloom set in the world of fashion in postwar New York. Netflix announces surprise Michelle Obama documentary 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The year 1947 did mark a tipping point between the savagery of the immediate past and the tentative stirrings of postwar potentialities. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" resonated with so many white women in the 1960s because it articulated their dissatisfaction with the postwar gender order. Why feminist horror novel "The Stepford Wives" is still relevant, 50 years on 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Further sharpening its focus on postwar and contemporary art, the L.A. The L.A. Art Show reinvents itself again — with help from major museums 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z As yet, online bidding hasn’t been much of a factor in the seven- and eight-figure prices that are bloating the totals of Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions of postwar and contemporary art. Art Makes a Move Online 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Her most recent novel was The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set against the postwar decline of the aristocracy and the birth of the welfare state. Sarah Waters 2011-07-13T09:17:12Z Yet, for many philosophers of the postwar era, too much order seemed just as dangerous as too little. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z That fashion changed — and the person that many like to blame is George Balanchine, the founding choreographer of New York City Ballet, who had an outsize influence on postwar ballet in America. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Politics in Poland is still largely determined by the past, and after 1989 there have been only two acceptable ways of looking at the postwar era. Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Biography by Artur Domoslawski – review 2012-08-02T07:00:02Z Or, to propose only one alternative, is it a meditation on ultimate beginnings and endings that frames an autobiographical rendering of middle-class life in postwar Waco, Tex.? Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z After being raised by relatives, Forman joined the Prague Film Academy, and began writing scripts in the late 1950s, gradually moving up the ranks in the postwar Czechoslovak industry. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman dies aged 86 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z He and his parents were “boat people,” postwar refugees from Communist Vietnam. Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Howard Hodgkin, a British artist whose lush, semiabstract paintings, aquiver with implicit drama, established him as one of the most admired artists of the postwar period, died on Thursday in London. Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This he maintained whatever befell him, whether incarceration in Colditz as a PoW or in reporting the communist show trials of postwar Europe. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z The third is the world that surrounds them — the “massive experiment in social engineering” in postwar America of which they were all subjects. Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z His last words — ‘I was only an obedient servant of my master’ — anticipate the position adopted by innumerable Nazi criminals, big and small, in the postwar trials.” Movie Review | 'Harlan': Haunted by What Dad Did in the War 2010-03-02T23:38:00Z While her work was often likened to that of postwar feminist novelists like Doris Lessing, Marge Piercy and Marilyn French, it was distinguished by its specifically Jewish focus. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z Garry Winogrand, the renowned rambling chronicler of postwar New York City and American life, and pioneer of the “snapshot aesthetic”, is considered one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. 10 Art Exhibits to Discover This Summer 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Back home in postwar New York, Hazel, on a whim, decides to move into the Chelsea Hotel, which Maxine described to her as a wonderland for actors, writers and creative types. Review | ‘The Chelsea Girls’ revisits the fear and desperation of the McCarthy-era theater world 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Moving, beautiful, mournful and uplifting, talent met talent, words met images and postwar England met its wisest cultural thinker. The best visual art event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:03Z The actor, who starred in the 1983 film version of Wolfe’s 1979 classic about postwar test pilots and the space race, lends his voice to the story once again. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Caffeine to the Space Race 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Baselitz is routinely lumped together with these giants of postwar art. Review | Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him — but you don’t have to. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “In the standard history,” Boyle writes, “the shattering started with the idealism of a new generation,” which rejected the stultifying compromises required by the “relentlessly moderate consensus” of the postwar era. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Like many postwar planning projects, Lafayette Park rose on the former site of a working-class African-American neighborhood. Lafayette Park in Detroit Granted Landmark Status 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The assumption, in advanced circles, was that abstraction was wholly superior, raising large, lofty questions about the essence of painting instead of getting bogged down in the picayune details of postwar life. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z One of David Lean's great achievements in The Third Man was to show that decimated postwar Vienna looked less appealing than the spectacular sewer system beneath it. Clip joint: manhole covers 2011-02-23T13:59:15Z The classic novel about eight young women — all Vassar graduates, all constrained by the men in their lives — and their encounters with a postwar future. If You Love ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ You’ll Love These Books 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center totaled $495 million, the highest sales figure at any art auction. Christie’s Art Auction Sets Record at $495 Million 2013-05-16T03:53:51Z The headline-grabbing millions spent on postwar and contemporary trophies dominate perceptions of how art is bought and sold, leaving more earth-bound collecting short of attention. Art: The Great Divide in the Art Market 2014-04-27T16:01:16Z Vigorous support from the postwar German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, helped keep the final stanza alive, and it has remained official ever since. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The other element is the need for smaller plants, or smaller versions of old plants, to fit in gardens that are inherently smaller than the postwar suburban archetype. Planning your 2020 garden? You’ll want to check out the year’s Gold Medal Plants. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z In Germany, where the postwar occupying powers designed a decentralized broadcasting landscape free of government control, the mission is broader. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z In major public plantings in postwar Japan, the Yoshino became predominant. Perspective | Yoshinos aren’t the only cherry out there. It’s worth knowing, and growing, these others. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Over the last four decades, he has explored a variety of subjects through his art, including the effects of globalization, societal changes in postwar Japan, the evolution of popular culture, consumerism, spirituality and religion. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z These streets became mean in the postwar years, when highways barreled into cities, some plunging through the hearts of poor districts, some creating them by splitting up more stable neighborhoods. Mean Streets, Kind Cameras 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Jenni Murray: ‘We will leave a kindly legacy’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Jenni Murray, 60, broadcaster We baby boomers were to some degree a spoiled generation - free education, affordable housing, postwar optimism. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z With Belgian waffles, Michelangelo’s “Pietà” and a Tent of Tomorrow, the event was a last postwar blast of guilt-free consumption, Sunday school piety and faith in the future as a good place to be. Art Review: Warhol Shows Open, on World’s Fair and on Jackie Kennedy 2014-04-24T12:00:01Z The author of well over 100 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, Mr. Wilson became a sensation at 24, when “The Outsider” was published and instantly touched a deep nerve in postwar Britain. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z While researching old production manuals, Fasanella discovered that a postwar 10 was roughly the equivalent of a current size 2. Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z And working-class political parties were crucial in forcing 20th-century European governments to create welfare states, while the social compromises of postwar Europe owed much to elite fears that workers would otherwise vote Communist. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z Rankin, in particular, combined the sensibility of a postwar New York analysand with a strong appreciation of the release offered by fairy tales. In Praise of Rudolph 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The movie’s final laugh, however, is on us, the audience inheriting the world that is left in the wake of the Deltas’ assault on the motorcade of postwar progress. From Bluto Blutarsky to Donald Trump: The United States of "Animal House" at 40 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Globalization, financial deregulation and the lure of art as a tax-efficient alternative investment have encouraged people to pour money into the market for postwar and contemporary art. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Drozdiak finds in Germany a reluctant hegemon, unsure how to repair the postwar liberal international order now so disdained by the Trump administration. A Grand Tour of the Crisis in Europe 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Published in 1950 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, “Born of Man and Woman” immediately established Matheson’s name in the burgeoning postwar fantasy genre. Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z As the Christian embodiment of evil temptation, Satan promised access to any and all sensual pleasures—an invitation to lustful exploration that resonated within the postwar era’s ongoing disarticulation of sex, marriage, and reproduction. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z Print use of “creepiness,” after holding steady for a couple of postwar decades, began climbing precipitously during the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton Presidencies, a fact that will shock no one. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z While the island was an aspirational symbol of modern housekeeping, it was mostly a product of postwar new construction for suburban single-family homes. Americans love the kitchen island. These designers want the trend to die. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z But the narrative of postwar American art tends to be populated by male envelope-pushers: Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Thirteen Crucial Years for Art in Downtown New York 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z A similar mood exudes from a very different subject dealt with in another postwar picture 19 years later. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z In 1947, the postwar government passed the Fundamental Law on Education to bolster the liberal and democratic values of the postwar pacifist constitution. Japanese kindergarten teaches students pre-war ideals 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z However, it was through challenging the conformism of postwar Catholic Italy that he made his name as a journalist in the pages of the liberal weekly news magazine Cronache, which he helped found in 1953. Gualtiero Jacopetti obituary 2011-08-18T21:06:08Z His proclivities for drinking, gambling and sado-masochistic relationships made him an enfant terrible of the postwar London set. Art Review: Two Meaty Visions of Flesh and Blood 2011-05-12T21:55:51Z In the postwar years Thomas became a household name in Britain through radio programs that brought poems like “Under Milk Wood” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” to a broad public. A Dylan Thomas Poem Resurfaces, 73 Years Later 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z At the Observer, I found myself standing in for my idol, the greatest critic of postwar Britain and unabashed stammerer, Ken Tynan. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z This helped create a middle class, but a reliance on growing things was replaced by the canned-and-shrink-wrapped gospel of postwar America. Reclaiming Puerto Rico’s Food Paradise 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Making pictures on star-filled movie sets and sun-drenched beaches, Mr. Gowland contributed to the myth of California as a postwar paradise. Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 2010-04-05T02:49:00Z I loved that postwar optimism that all the kids had before the Vietnam War. Matthew Modine Isn’t Sure if ‘Stranger Things’ Is Done With Him 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The young women positively radiate good health and postwar American optimism, which drove Hefner's critics crazy. "Hugh Hefner" and the creation of American manhood 2010-07-30T00:30:00Z When he acquired the 3,100-square-foot space, which is in a severe postwar palazzo, a bit over a year ago, a primary objective was to banish the apartment's darkness. Fiat Heir Lapo Elkann Opens The Doors To His Provocative Milan Penthouse 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Some atmospheric galleries are surprisingly effective, and it ultimately seems appropriate that Nazi memorabilia is shown through transparent floor panels over which we walk as we reach the postwar period. Museum Review: The Memory of Holocaust, Fortified 2011-04-22T22:46:32Z The first show in the United States in decades devoted to postwar Indian painting continues a welcome, belated effort in Western museums to globalize art history after 1945. 24 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z An original and overlooked bad boy of postwar art. Museum & Gallery Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z It has also found itself in recent years on a growing list of important postwar American residences that face an uncertain future. Can Vanna Venturi House and other landmark homes survive the test of new owners? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In an interview this year with Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Mr. Kelly said his years in postwar Paris were filled with such moments of visual discovery. Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The other is 2011's "Pacific Standard Time," the marvelous citywide array of exhibitions on postwar Southern California art history. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Installed with appropriate precision on the Whitney’s eighth floor, the show presents her as an artist of formidable discipline, consistency and clarity of purpose, and a key player in any history of postwar art. A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But as she shares entries from her journal, Rapp’s creation seems just as steeped in youthful existential alienation as her postwar predecessor. ‘Edge of our Bodies’: a teen lost in reality, memory 2014-04-03T21:26:07Z “That was a real wake up call for all of us,” said Noah Davis, a specialist in postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, “to see such significant sums being paid.” Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The academy’s postwar motto, “Duty, Honor, Country,” was a rebuke to secession. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Together they would try to convince the world that they need a staggering $8 billion in recovery assistance — a so-called “Marshall Plan” that they have likened to a postwar strategy. Guinea’s president bears the weight of what Ebola has done to his country 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Being true to oneself is a key issue in Clifford Odets' dark play, "The Big Knife," written in 1948 during the flush of postwar success, when America's focus turned toward capitalism. Review: Fame cuts both ways in 'The Big Knife' 2013-04-17T03:16:04Z There is plenty of contemporary art on view, along with many terrific examples of postwar modernism by the big names of the period. Art Review: Yale University Art Gallery Reopens After Renovations 2012-12-13T23:11:46Z Older folks will remember the decline of American cities in the postwar decades, and in Washington, the city’s tree canopy withered as people abandoned the urban core for the suburbs. Perspective | Appreciating the need for — and the beauty of — the urban forest 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The company’s success coincided with the postwar baby boom and pioneering work by child psychologists such as Jerome Singer, author of the 1973 book the Child’s World of Make Believe. Ninety and still into toys: how Fisher-Price pulled a town out of depression 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Abstract expressionism was the dominant avant-garde style of the postwar period, and Guston, who had been a close friend of Jackson Pollock’s in his youth, became one of its most acclaimed practitioners. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z “The whole of Japan changed from a rather military pre-war style to a postwar economic powerhouse, and obviously the emperor was part of that.” Japan's slide into war chronicled in Emperor Hirohito's memoir 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Rations to soldiers during World War II and the invention of the postwar “coffee break” helped feed America’s growing habit. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The Broad's collection is made up of pieces from the Broad Art Foundation and the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection, which together hold 2,000 works of postwar and contemporary art. Broad museum to show more than 250 works in inaugural display 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Many of these places, Smith said, were facing a shared context of postwar trauma and instability, which could have resulted in similar ideas of what art should be, and how it looked. Retelling the Story of Abstract Expressionism Through Women Artists 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Carol Bove continues to mess with the mostly male history of postwar sculpture. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The answer lies in the tight rein restraining British architects in the immediate postwar years. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z In jazzing up the tale for the screen, Rogers sands down the somberness — Baltese is all fuzzy blues and pinks, with nary a trace of postwar grit — while turning up the silliness for gimmicky thrills. ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Review: The Promise of a Pachyderm 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But mostly he stayed in New York, where he was staggered by the material abundance, in stark contrast to the deprivations of postwar France. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s an experiment that takes only what it needs from the Euripides drama of Trojan women raging about their postwar fate. Review | From the Trojan War to Trump: Troupe makes a feminist statement at festival 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Thinkers like Arendt and Sartre looked around the postwar landscape and concluded that freedom would be the era’s byword. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z During the postwar period, Colette’s public image softened: She was a famous eccentric, known as much for her love of cats and creature comforts as for her work. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Christie's achieved the best total in the history of auctions in May when it sold $745 million worth of art at its postwar and contemporary sale. Expectations high for record spending at New York art auctions 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Its publisher, Stark House, also reprints paperback classics of postwar noir fiction. Review | Beyond the bestsellers: Lesser-known literary delights make perfect holiday gifts 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Well-meaning documentarians with an interest in postwar immigration would deploy archival images of Rasta youth, inner-city kids clashing with police, the burgeoning of militant community organisations. Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review 2012-05-25T21:55:10Z In the spirit of postwar liberation, those handsome gents delighted a public that, thanks to the paparazzi, was newly attuned to their antics. Fashion Review: Review of Men?s Fashion From Milan 2010-06-23T21:42:00Z He was one of Britain's most successful postwar national hunt jockeys, although he never won the Grand National. 2010-02-14T17:57:00Z The castle was one of 14 estates in the region requisitioned by the Army as postwar officers’ clubs. Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Our Side 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Now all this postwar and contemporary art, by some of the most recognizable names of the last 40 years, is heading to a single place for the first time. Filling L.A.'s new Broad museum is an art in itself 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Horizon House looked like a postwar high-rise in upper Manhattan. Death and Taxes: Remembering an Old Friend from the Copydesk 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z We also got an esteemed literary biographer turning her lens on herself, a sprawling, fresh look at New York’s postwar art world and cleareyed advice about how to die. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z She previously spent 13 years as chairwoman of postwar and contemporary-art development at Christie’s and began her career as an art adviser and curator. Powerful Auction Veterans Aim New Company at Asian Market 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson has cited it as a crucial touchstone for his 2012 drama The Master, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a traumatised veteran bouncing around postwar America. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He nursed two orchestras, the Krakow and Warsaw Philharmonics, back to postwar life. Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z We were looking at the ocean and he was unusually quiet, and then he said: "I came here when I was your age, as part of the postwar effort." Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z These passages are the best part of the film, showing the postwar boom decades in a new light. Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland – review 2012-06-12T12:59:02Z He stuck around in large part because there was so much work for adventurous architects in postwar Southern California. Investor donates his gravity-defying John Lautner-designed home in Beverly Crest to LACMA 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Two Big Collectors Ready for November The big art auctions don’t kick off until November, but several seasoned collectors have already consigned works to Christie’s for its Nov. 14 postwar and contemporary art auction. Inside Art: Steven Cohen and Douglas Cramer to Sell Pieces at Christie’s 2012-09-20T22:59:26Z The theme of Ms. Lévy’s booth this year is postwar Europe and America, showing how a Pierre Soulages painting, for example, echoes a David Smith sculpture. How a Dealer Prepares for the ‘Most Important’ Art Fair of the Year 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Baum is trying a new approach to postwar art. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Making a triple threat, this exhibition channels the optimism and reflection of postwar Paris in work by 11 artists and designers. This week's new art exhibitions 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z As time went on, and postwar Vietnam became a tourist destination, he wove in corporate logos and references to Southeast Asian pop culture. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z Thus his postwar business model of custom-designed furniture was not only a celebration of his craft skills but also a route around union restrictions. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Blondie was one of the most copied pieces of postwar artwork and was one of the last pieces Don painted before returning home at the end of the war. In Pictures: Don Allen's "nose art" 2012-08-17T14:57:36Z Nonetheless, Mr. Davies’s work came to be so highly regarded that he was long considered one of the most eminent postwar composers in the world. Peter Maxwell Davies, Contrarian British Composer, Dies at 81 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In the postwar years, Keynesianism settled into its perch as the new economic orthodoxy in the United States. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z A name for that place, in the postwar years, would be America, which emerged as a kind of Promised Land — or nightmarish dystopia, depending on whom you asked — of middlebrow culture. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The literature of the period in particular bristles with the energy of young men in revolt against the expectations of their parents and the stultifying conventions of postwar society. William Goldman’s Journey From Page to Screen 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The friendship that would lead to one of the more successful pairings in postwar art began inauspiciously, almost provisionally. Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Chambers rides a bicycle around the bucolic postwar English countryside, getting mixed up in intrigue while battling his own demons, including combat PTSD. Is this the cultural moment of the ‘hot priest’? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z However, it was clearly from someone who had precise information about the émigré, not only in Brussels under the occupation but also in Antwerp postwar. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z There’s a deep longing, especially in postwar America at the time, of thinking: “Can things be fixed? Are we going to be OK? Is the family going to stay together?” With ‘Lucy and Desi,’ Amy Poehler Gets to the Heart of a Marriage 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “You can see those young men who were thrown into postwar Britain,” she told The Guardian, “and found humor here, found love here, found terror here.” In Nadifa Mohamed’s Latest, a Man Hangs for a Murder He Didn’t Commit 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z She also continued painting, adopting a colorful abstract style associated with the postwar School of Paris rather than imitating Picasso. Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z A postwar council estate on the edge of Coventry, with trees, grass and loads of woodland just beyond. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z But remember, these are antiquated representations, born a half-century ago, of the corrupt values of a fraying postwar British establishment. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Stille puts the story of the Sicilian mafia in the context of postwar Italian politics, doesn’t he? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z The Modern was swept into the postwar period on the wave of Abstract Expressionism. What to Do in New York City in August 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z I think it was a reaction to postwar rationing and frankly some of the recipes sounded horrible and looked worse. 23 recipes for leftover wine 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z A prismatic investigation of the rise and fall of a postwar model worker, densely interweaving fact and fiction, “Man of Marble” was the Polish equivalent of “Citizen Kane.” Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Geffen is among the world’s top art collectors, with a cache consisting largely of postwar art by American masters including Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning valued at more than $2 billion. David Geffen pledges $150 million for new LACMA building 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Now, most staircases in postwar blocks of flats are nothing to write home about. London's most underappreciated architecture – in pictures 2013-05-28T13:39:21Z It goes straight into the canon of great postwar films: at once so pristine and so adventurously expansive that you wonder how its young director can possibly follow it. Streaming: the best film of 2019? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z In the last few decades it’s been fashionable to favor the early Giacometti, with its sex and humor, and to huff that the lanky postwar sculptures merely reiterate that we are doomed to isolation. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z And “Body and Matter,” opening January 29 at Dominique Lévy, will place 23 important abstract paintings by Shiraga in conversation with more than a dozen 1990s works by Satoru Hoshino, an avant-garde postwar Japanese ceramicist. Three gallery shows spotlight Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In the heart of the city, near the central train station, rises a monument from a different era: Giò Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi’s Pirelli skyscraper, the symbol of Italy’s postwar economic boom. New Venues Put Milan on the Contemporary Art Map 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z A pianist originally from Cuba, he has a superb new album, “Hidden Voices,” informed both by folkloric Afro-Cuban custom and the postwar jazz avant-garde. Jazz Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z By the time all the prints had been completed, they offered an overview of postwar Britain as seen by almost all of the period's most renowned artists. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z But as long as the prices of instantly recognizable postwar and contemporary works keep rising, do these earlier rarities necessarily represent better value? European Fine Art Fair Showcases Shaker Furniture 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z He was educated at Eton and Oxford and served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II, winding up in postwar Germany. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The city’s decimated downtown was swiftly rebuilt, almost single-handedly, by Solidere, the company partly owned by the prime minister, Rafik Hariri, a tycoon considered the messiah of postwar Lebanon, especially by his fellow Sunnis. T Magazine: Dancing on the Edge 2011-09-23T13:30:33Z Originally built as one of Austria’s sleek postwar modernist buildings, this showcase for cutting-edge contemporary art reopened after extensive renovations in early 2013. 36 Hours in Graz, Austria 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The English Powell and the Hungarian émigré Pressburger produced some of the finest British films of the wartime and postwar period, often spiced with fantasy. The Week Ahead: Nov. 13 ? 19 2011-11-11T14:58:50Z In the chaos and deprivation of postwar London, he's tracking crimes rooted in the recent horrors of concentration camps. New in crime fiction: Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, more 2010-10-06T23:16:00Z "It was well above average postwar housing but it suffered from a lack of maintenance and good management," said Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, an architecture conservation group. Anger surrounds demise of 1970s housing estate 2011-02-07T20:33:13Z It is a story about a battle of ideas between the people who built postwar American culture and their critics, like Whyte. The Forces That Are Killing the American Dream 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z A range of groundbreaking postwar analytical instrumentation was sought for exhibition. Frank Greenaway obituary 2013-07-16T16:48:05Z They served separately at an ebb tide of postwar American power in the early 1970s, witnesses to defeat abroad and malaise at home. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell: The Odd Couple 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Newspaper publishers were waking up to lucrative possibilities: postwar gloom had lifted, shiny new products were on the shelves; cars, televisions and holidays were within the reach of ordinary people. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z Not so the cafeterias of the Big Five: These are creatures sprung fully formed from the brow of the postwar shopping mall culture. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Has Britain revised the postwar image of Germany, its favorite enemy, as that nation’s dozen years of Nazi rule recede in the collective memory? A German Comedian in London: Working Out the War in Punch Lines 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z One of the spider sculptures sold at auction at Christie’s New York in November for $28.2 million, a record for a postwar female artist. A Look Inside Louise Bourgeois’s Home, Just How She Left It 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In the third episode of the series, we are introduced to Bill Monroe not only as “the father of bluegrass” but as a postwar innovator on par with that better-known country modernist, Hank Williams. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z But it also offers a history lesson in world events, politics and the social manners and mores of postwar British society, seen through the prism of Elizabeth’s reign. In ‘The Crown,’ a Young Queen, but a Young Woman, Too 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Earlier during voting leaders from all sides emphasized the importance of the vote for the future of Greece, which is suffering one of Europe's worst postwar recessions. Greeks maul pro-bailout parties: exit polls 2012-05-06T16:19:02Z By her early 20s, she was living in postwar Europe, setting up theatres in Germany and picking up acting work in Italy. Blanche Marvin, 93: ‘I’m never lonely in this house, because I have my life with me’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Pape, the most experimental and restless of Brazil’s great postwar artists, offers one answer. Lygia Pape’s Brazil, From the Beach to the Barricades 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z They love him, even though the island of Sodor belongs to a far-off postwar world where things like "coal" and "steam" and "public transport" – unimaginable to the modern child-brain – were still comprehensible concepts. The tyrannical world of Thomas the Tank Engine 2012-07-04T10:06:59Z It’s there in the pumped bodies of his moody postwar work. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z For many, the one out-and-out trophy of the season is David Hockney’s rediscovered acrylic on canvas, “Sur la Terrasse,” offered at Christie’s Wednesday night postwar and contemporary auction. Will Global Jitters Dull the Glitter of New York’s Art Gigaweek? 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Or cluster in front of ballerina brooches redolent, in their sweet innocence, of the postwar period of the 1950s? Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z Her selfie stick sculptures are clumsy, combinations of lumpy organic forms a la William Tucker, and upright wood planks familiar to much postwar abstraction. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Though his early works embraced European postwar avant-garde styles, including serialism and electronic music, Mr. Andriessen kept an ear on American developments too and quickly found his own path. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z Robertson places Walker’s world on a continuum of postwar abusive power that still resonates today, while also reminding the reader of older instances of displacement such as the Trail of Tears and Scotland’s Sutherland clearances. Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z For others, the concrete high-rises in south were a horrible place to work and represented one of the worst examples of soulless postwar development. Goldfinger's Alexander Fleming House finally gets Grade II listing 2013-07-09T13:53:22Z For a generation of postwar children in homes without television, that phrase remains stingingly evocative. Daphne Oxenford obituary 2013-01-06T16:57:00Z This extraordinary exhibition of over 70 works transports us to the early, most innovative years of the Gutai group, the leading avant-gardists of postwar Japan. 24 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Agnelli, though, was a showboat, in part a creation of a postwar tabloid culture fascinated by the doings of a newly minted cosmopolitan jet set. Nino Cerruti Gave Elegance a Good Name 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Wilson's ability to recreate the wartime and postwar eras is uncanny, and no doubt based on impressive research. A Capital Crime By Laura Wilson 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z This was the music of postwar cocktail parties, one of those adult mysteries that young boomers, sometimes in pajamas, might have witnessed from a distance in their homes. Get shaken and stirred at Seattle Symphony's 'Cocktail Hour' 2012-09-20T20:50:04Z Chiyoko’s roles provide a chronicle of postwar Japan; unconstrained by chronology, she walks in and out of period movies. Animation That Broke the Rules 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Liberia and Sierra Leone's fragile postwar economies will shrink by 3.5% this year, the IMF said, meaning less money is likely to go into vital infrastructure and education projects. Ebola outbreak: US to send 3,000 troops to west Africa to fight epidemic 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Except for the middle-class accents, the film presents an honest, down-to-earth portrait of Britain in the postwar age of austerity. Dance Hall 2013-04-20T23:05:30Z The book serves both as an account of Ernaux’s experience and as a generational memoir of postwar France, and captures the shift toward sexual liberation and consumerism. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z But the postwar atmosphere was more succinctly captured a decade or so later by Kander and Ebb: “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z Into this anxious moment comes a wistfully romantic portrait of the postwar dealer Richard Bellamy, a passionate advocate for contemporary art and a notably indifferent businessman. When Dealers, Too, Were Romantics 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s fun to peek inside a model apartment from the 1950s, which the mayor’s office maintains in a classic Perret building to depict what life was like for the postwar tenants. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Bernhard, who died in 1989, was the bad boy of postwar Austrian literature, and he loved to thumb his nose at his compatriots for maintaining that they were Hitler’s first victims. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z In the same postwar years that saw British art dig itself into a realistic trench, US painting became heroically and famously abstract. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z He expunged his postwar demons with a Mass for the Dead. 'What It Is Like to Go to War': Karl Marlantes' unvarnished account of the highs, lows and tragedy of war 2011-09-07T20:06:04Z “At the beginning we recorded two sessions per week,” Ms. Kerr wrote on her website, describing the postwar boom in Nashville’s music industry. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The first PST grew out of an effort to save the historical record of Los Angeles’ postwar art scene, spanning the years 1945 to 1980. What's next for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time? This critic has an idea 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Gory wartime violence and less explicit but equally upsetting postwar brutality. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Moorcock's "funny family" gave him an outsider's perspective on postwar England. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z Catering to this breed, Christie’s is selling 21 of Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” in a single lot during its Nov. 12 evening sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York. Cindy Sherman’s ‘Untitled Film Stills’ Go to Auction 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Once the front moved north, the Origos and the unharmed children returned to La Foce to repair and replant — but in some ways the postwar years were even more devastating. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z There was not a night in London over the last two weeks when sales reached nearly $500 million, as happened in May at the Christie’s evening sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York. Critic’s Notebook: Art Fatigue in London 2013-06-28T22:17:49Z Decades before the present outward flood of people from Africa and the Middle East, there was another newsworthy exodus, equally catastrophic, the one from postwar Vietnam. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to sales of postwar and contemporary art at the three auction houses that totaled $981 million. Contemporary Art Evening Sales Bring $981 Million, Led by Koons and KAWS 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Most plentiful and least familiar are the “Polka Dots” works, which mine the conventions of postwar sculpture with a directness new to Ms. Bove. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z You can learn more about Flora, Trip and others who lived through the war as you wander through five galleries, which include the prewar period through the postwar struggles of a new nation. New museum in Virginia explores other heroes of the Revolutionary War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z About 95 percent of the city center was destroyed during World War II, and unfortunately it was quickly rebuilt, in that typical, postwar low-key style that conduces to a dreary anonymity. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z For him – as for many postwar English schoolboys – Rogue Male had been a formative book that had buried itself in his imagination at an early age. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z He called the Gustons a “great gift” providing, he said, that “the numbers and space required to show the works do not create a serious imbalance in the presentation of postwar art.” The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill? 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z In his speech “The Human Crisis,” delivered at Columbia University in 1946, he pushed for a postwar return to the human scale, calling hatred and indifference “symptoms” of this crisis. Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z He saw Italy’s postwar boom as an irreversible blight, turning the masses into mindless consumers and erasing local cultures. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z Plenty depicts postwar, post-imperial Britain as a world of drab compromises and frustrated desires. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z The neighborhood itself is rather ho-hum, composed mostly of dreary postwar apartment buildings on the edge of Prater park, where Freud would play as a young boy. Freud’s City, From Couch to Cafes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The county's famous postwar system of serially designed primary schools using prefabricated kits was already up and running. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z After his 1949 noir, “The Third Man,” set in postwar Vienna, the director Carol Reed returned to the region for this drama that takes place in postwar Berlin. What’s on TV Monday: New Year’s Eve Celebrations and Taylor Swift 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “It was postwar, and it was all about security and stability. My dad wanted no emotional conversations; no expressions of dismay or unhappiness.” Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Rumsey, not one of jazz’s greatest bassists but surely one of its champion promoters, transformed it into a locus of postwar, California jazz. Howard Rumsey, Musician Who Invigorated West Coast Jazz Scene, Dies at 97 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z In postwar Paris tapestry was promoted as a glory of French culture, but by the late ’60s the French organizers of this event were looking to shake things up. A Career Woven From Life 2011-04-03T02:14:47Z “When people think of modernism, they think of it as new and contemporary,” said Liz Waytkus, executive director of Docomomo US, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving architecture from the postwar period. Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Last year, postwar and contemporary art accounted for 46 percent of the world’s $63.8 billion of auction and dealer sales, according to the 2016 Tefaf Art Market Report that was published in March. Paris Art Fairs Strive to Get Back on Track 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s all too easy to peer back at moments from that hopeful postwar era through a veil of nostalgia, even though the economic boom masked darker currents of inequity that would erupt a decade later. Review | Amor Towles’s ‘The Lincoln Highway’ is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 Hank Jones, whose self-effacing nature belied his stature as one of the most respected jazz pianists of the postwar era, died Sunday at a hospice in Manhattan. Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 2010-05-17T15:40:00Z Although sprightly in tone and merciless in its put-downs of the younger generation, this is really a play about postwar ennui, the sterility of the City and the banality of suburbia. The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z The crowd changed - from the postwar displaced to the likes of Warhol, playwright Arthur Miller and local literary and artistic giants, to business travelers, students and tourists. Viennese Cafe Icon Hawelka dead at 100 2011-12-29T20:37:07Z In the accompanying monograph, author Sarah Thornton writes: “Now that the art world is revoking its virtual excommunication of Judy Chicago, it is time to position her work in broader dialogue with postwar art history.” Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z As time went on, Dix also became increasingly critical of postwar German society during a period in which soaring inflation meant financial ruin for most. Gallery finds art by Nazi-branded "degenerate" Dix 2011-08-31T18:14:50Z The Nazis were so enamored with fashion’s place in French culture that in their plans for postwar Europe, they stipulated that, unlike other industries, the fashion sector would remain in France. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z Japan had long since remade itself as a postwar economic engine, but by the late 1970s it was becoming something else: a global emblem of techno-utopianism and futuristic cool. Yukihiro Takahashi, Pioneer of Electronic Pop Music, Dies at 70 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Doubtless the Bush-haters will assume he wrote the letters to his family as a form of prewar spin planning that could be trotted out postwar when it all went wrong. Decision Points by George W Bush ? review 2010-11-19T10:09:00Z Compare a handful of dry, sweet British postwar movies to … well, two words – American noir, inspired by European film-makers not from Britain. Readers' reviews: Postwar British cinema and Selena Gomez 2011-07-28T22:15:01Z “We are at a time of uncertainty,” Alex Rotter, Christie’s chairman of postwar and contemporary art in New York, said in a media webinar on Friday. Christie’s Gets Creative for 20th-Century Art Auction in July 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z There is an undercurrent of revulsion beneath the otherwise placid exterior of the postwar German family. The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke – review 2013-02-12T08:01:01Z Mitchell, who died in 1992, is considered one of the great abstract artists of the postwar period, and her large-scale works regularly sell for over $1 million at auction. Joan Mitchell Foundation Claims Vuitton Ads Infringe on Painter’s Copyright 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z “Set Fire to the Stars” barely skims the surface of characters you wish had been given more dimension, but as a snapshot of postwar academia and its pretensions, it exerts a creepy fascination. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Limón choreographed the dance after touring Poland and being struck by the postwar fortitude of its people. Dance Review: Lim?n?s Spiritual Heights and Depths 2011-06-09T22:42:37Z One unexpected benefit from the postwar boom was rising disposable income. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “Auschwitz is a pillar of postwar Europe,” Mr. Cywinski said, “and the key to understanding today.” Abroad: Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching 2011-02-18T21:35:20Z “Orange Glyph,” for instance, presents a bright orange canvas that would live happily among the postwar monochromes of Yves Klein. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Completed in 2009, it retells a Hans Christian Andersen story, here set in a postwar Polish village and shot in black and white reminiscent of 1970s Eastern European realism. Art: Gallery Week, With Zwirner, Nolan, Petzel and More 2010-05-06T22:23:00Z Early canvases like 1946's The Yellow Runner turned the implicit dynamism of sweeping hills to an upbeat narrative of postwar rebirth. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Though still relatively unknown outside Japan, Tomatsu, now 80, is arguably the greatest and most influential of all the photographers that emerged during his country's turbulent postwar era. Shomei Tomatsu 2010-09-06T13:41:00Z Turn to the grimy postwar Birmingham, England, of Steven Knight’s “Peaky Blinders.” Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z What’s more, his deportation to Dachau in 1944 was not related to saving Jews but to German accusations of embezzlement and treason for passing plans for the postwar independence of Fiume to the British. An Italian Saint in the Making or a Collaborator With Nazis 2013-06-19T23:11:51Z Mark Ravenhill's A Bigger Banner tackles the shattering of postwar dreams of democracy and equality with succinct savagery and wistfulness. Theatre Uncut - review 2011-03-17T17:58:55Z She wrote sharp-clawed columns in postwar newspapers, but by then public appetite for her blend of feminism and acid wit had paled. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “The Dutch view is that this is the postwar novel that revolutionized Dutch literature stylistically,” said Adam Freudenheim, the publisher and managing director of Pushkin Press. ‘The Evenings,’ a Dutch Classic, Arrives in English. It Only Took 70 Years. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The other misses a key critical roadblock that impeded taking postwar L.A. art seriously. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “To the degree that the film tries to help us see how violent and conflicted the postwar period was, that is accurate, even of course if the details are invented,” Mr. Downs wrote via email. Samuel L. Jackson Defends Use of Epithet in ‘Hateful Eight’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In postwar Germany, courts and government agencies oversaw the many claims brought by displaced Jews. The Mystery of the Painting in Gallery 634 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z His mother was a general practitioner, but like so many German women in the immediate postwar period, a time of general deprivation, she scrounged to bring home butter and meat. Jürgen Flimm, Director of Festivals and Opera Houses, Dies at 81 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z At Sheffield's Weston Park Museum there is a twilight tasting, part of its postwar British food retrospective Food Glorious Food. Museum food: eat the ancestors 2010-05-14T09:15:00Z Although he found himself unable to meet Goebbels' exacting standards of sycophancy, and got into trouble, he did the same thing when the communists were in power, postwar. Letters: Alone in Berlin is morally compromised 2011-01-11T00:04:00Z One of his most eloquent postwar paintings, it may reflect the pervasive national call for restoration and recovery. ‘Monet & Architecture’ Review: Watching a Painter Build His Career 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z In the postwar United States, robust mental health was seen as necessary armor for the Cold War. Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The brothers realized that they had a tremendous opportunity in the postwar world: to unite progressive design with new advances in engineering and materials. What We’ve Learned from Dieter Rams, and What We’ve Ignored 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z At least half the turnover now at these major auction houses is from one department, postwar and contemporary. Chairman of Phillips Sees Major Changes in Auctions 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z This was the postwar literary society and it was essentially the same as the world of Conrad, Stevenson, Dickens and Johnson. The third age of Grub Street – and a new era for books 2013-03-04T15:43:30Z On this side of the Atlantic, Billy Bragg celebrates the British postwar dream of a better world – "build me a path from cradle to grave" – and denounces the spectre of militarism in Between the Wars. Readers recommend: songs about leftwing politics – results 2013-04-18T10:56:59Z The original art for the comic book story “Master Race,” about a postwar encounter between a Nazi war criminal and a Holocaust survivor, sold for $600,000 at Heritage Auctions on Thursday. ‘Master Race’ Original Art Sells for $600,000 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “My parents had a difficult time navigating a very racist postwar situation in England,” she said. Veronica Ryan’s Uncanny Objects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z It's also a rebuke to postwar and often postmodern French philosophers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Foucault with whom he argued and all of whom he has outlived. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z Rents were cheap, and there was a stock of impressive architecture, including Art Deco buildings wrapped in terra cotta and postwar towers of glass and steel. Koreatown's cool old buildings point to L.A.'s future 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Bowie was born David Robert Jones on Jan. 8, 1947, in the postwar gloom and rubble of the Brixton district of south London. Books of The Times: David Bowie, the Cool Chameleon From Mars 2011-07-21T22:10:17Z She seems to have seen every noir film featuring a disillusioned veteran who struggles to adjust to the postwar American dispensation. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z In reality, though, America built its primacy in postwar art on something more specific than urbanism or reactions against business-minded studio moguls. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Without that net, postwar British culture – nay, the world's – would have been deprived of Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Cats. Betty Blue Eyes: can Cameron Mackintosh make this pig musical fly? 2011-04-12T14:45:08Z Matthew Sweet led the boosting last week, with his article challenging the received wisdom that postwar British cinema – exemplified by the work of Ealing Studios – was cosy and parochial. Readers' reviews: Postwar British cinema and Selena Gomez 2011-07-28T22:15:01Z Like many other Yale undergraduates in the postwar decades, he made time to take one of Vincent Scully’s famed architectural history courses. Dick Polich, Master Forger of Sculptures for Artists, Dies at 90 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z By the time he was just twenty-one, he had impressed Edward Steichen, who bought two portraits of children he had taken on a postwar trip to Europe. Elliott Erwitt’s Visual One-Liners 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Civilians, and combatants from both sides of the conflict, struggled to survive in a deteriorating postwar environment. A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z That meeting opens James Graham’s play “Ink,” the prolific British playwright’s latest attempt to unpack Britain’s postwar history. He’s Playing Rupert Murdoch as More Than a ‘Pantomime Villain’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z This was the era of the corruptly alluring spiv, the postwar black market and the reaction against socialist austerity fostered by a combination of the rightwing press and the subversive Ealing Comedy. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z The epicenter of postwar Parisian nightlife, the caves symbolized youth, sex, freedom and the avant-garde. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Everyone is so sad in this postwar paradise. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z "A lot of these people came from the revolutionary postwar youth culture," says Andrew Male, deputy editor of Mojo magazine, which has Cohen on its latest cover. From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen ? the old masters finding new inspiration 2012-02-10T19:24:18Z It was left to postwar governments to determine the rightful owners. Court seems to boost claim to 'Adam' and 'Eve' at Norton Simon Museum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z An atmospheric theme tune and echo-chamber sound effects contributed to its success: music was a regular feature of the various panoramas that Chilton summoned up far away from postwar Britain. Charles Chilton 2013-01-14T18:14:41Z It was obviously irresistible to many members of a new postwar generation thrashing around in search of new attitudes. The Best-Seller List 55 Years Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z He said collectors were showing an “appetite for cross-category collecting between Impressionist and postwar art — two categories traditionally kept separate from one another.” Another Single Week of Sales for Christie's This Fall, With Modigliani as Its Star 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z His art has authority, even though he seemed forever stuck in a postwar London of peeling stucco and disappointed lives. Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck 2011-07-22T00:34:23Z However much you know about postwar Berlin, Lawton will take you deeper into its people, conflicts and courage. ‘The Unfortunate Englishman’: a stylish spy thriller set in postwar Berlin 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z It suggests a packed-earth floor strewn with petals — as well as an ingenuous way to save paint while commenting on Japan’s postwar poverty. Japanese Gutai in the 1950s: Fast and Fearless 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The social phenomenon that allowed women to claim a position of enduring influence as art dealers in postwar New York remains a mostly overlooked subject, not least of all by the women themselves. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In 2006, it sold for $27.1 million, then an auction high not only for the Abstract Expressionist artist, but for any postwar and contemporary work. A Richter, Owned by Clapton, Fetches $22 Million at Christie’s 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, a homespun philosopher and cult leader in postwar America. The 10 best films of 2012, No 1 – The Master 2012-12-13T22:00:28Z In the US, where the population is ageing because of the baby-boom postwar bubble, there's an older population, which means a trough. The AFM gets down to business – and not a leopard-print bikini in sight 2012-11-13T18:12:39Z It was an unusual film for its time, sitting most comfortably in the broad category of postwar Polish film-making that academic Marek Haltof refers to as "Third Polish Cinema". Janusz Kondratiuk: Poland's answer to Woody Allen 2011-03-24T16:39:35Z The aesthetic, he said, was more postwar British ballet than Ballets Russes, even though the “Red Shoes” characters were probably inspired by the Ballets Russes impresario Serge Diaghilev and his dancers. ‘The Red Shoes’ Takes the Stage 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Body and Soul, From the Surrealistic to the Fetishistic The small but intense survey of Alina Szapocznikow at the Museum of Modern Art is in some ways the story of postwar sculpture. Art Review: Alina Szapocznikow’s Sculptures at MoMA 2012-10-11T21:47:25Z The first major retrospective of the Italian artist’s work in 35 years, it will explore how Burri, who died in 1995, became a major pioneer of postwar European art. Coming to the Met’s Rooftop: A Pierre Huyghe Installation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In 1957 she managed to get a passport and a visa, and sewed dollars into her dresses to circumvent postwar currency controls. How Yayoi Kusama, the ‘Infinity Mirrors’ visionary, channels mental illness into art 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z In postwar testimony, one of the policemen described the presence of a band as the Jews were marched to the grave site. How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z We're supposed to be happy playing the bit part assigned to us in postwar America. 'A Strange Stirring': Stephanie Coontz weighs the impact of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' 2011-02-24T20:36:03Z She is widely credited with introducing postwar American art to Europe in the 1960s and Italian Arte Povera to the United States. | Art: Star of the Show? The Art Dealer 2013-12-20T21:08:29Z But in her heyday Squires, who was born in the shadow of the Llanelli tin works, was one of the UK's most successful performers and the highest-paid postwar entertainer. These Shining Lives, Knee Deep, Mayfest: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-11T05:00:24Z What we have here are excellent transfers of hard-to-see films that provide fine showcases for some of the most provocative actresses of the postwar years. 2010-02-06T01:50:00Z With a sprightly wit and an all-star cast to bring it to life, the movie manages to be a loving parody of theater gossips, postwar London and Christie’s murder mysteries all at once. ‘See How They Run’ Review: An Agatha Christie Mystery Spoof 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z See More » “This was a woman who was ahead of her time,” said Laura Paulson, Christie’s chairwoman of postwar and contemporary art. The Washington Hostess Who Nurtured Warhol 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Those houses pretended that all was well, that Los Angeles was capable of bringing its diverse and mushrooming postwar population into something resembling harmony. For the late L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, national honor overlaps with a bleak anniversary 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s the summer of 1963, before the Kennedy assassination shattered the shiny facade of postwar Americana. A New ‘Dirty Dancing,’ and Baby’s Love Story Is Just the Start 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z He was one of the first artists to emerge from postwar Germany to achieve international recognition. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z The evening auctions of postwar and contemporary art at the three houses, for example, are expected to draw about $536 million, compared with $1.2 billion for the same auctions in November 2015. The Art Market’s Reaction to Trump? Sales This Week Offer First Test 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z "In postwar England, and that was still the mood in the 1960s, we were very reverential," said Jacobson this weekend. The Australians who set 60s Britain swinging 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z In the show’s catalog, Gates cites the “shamanic conceptualism” of the German postwar artist Joseph Beuys as inspiration for his work. Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z One of the most pointed alignments of Andrews' juvenile stardom with a discourse of postwar British nationalism came with her appearance at the 1948 Royal Command Variety Performance. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z While the story touches on postwar tensions, it doesn’t dwell on them. This Is the Beirut We Wish You Could See 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z To understand why one of the country’s most intriguing shopping experiences is in a small, unassuming town in Okayama prefecture, you have to rewind a few decades – to postwar Japan. Jean genius: how Kojima became Japan’s denim mecca 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z “With international museums purchasing postwar Italian art for their collections, and prices at auction moving steadily upward, private international collectors are following suit,” he said. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Postwar Italians Find Their Niche 2011-03-03T12:30:05Z It was a cocksure swagger of pouting androgyny that appealed to pubescent working-class youth across Britain – a Britain still dominated by postwar austerity and weed-filled bomb sites. Gary Kemp: My teen crush on David Bowie 2010-06-28T20:45:00Z He came to the wider world from the narrow task of postwar European economic reconstruction, yet adjusted to the beginnings of the culturally conflicted postcolonial globe with an intellectual flexibility and empathy posterity can admire. My hero: Dag Hammarskjöld by Timothy Mo 2012-05-25T21:55:11Z In pictures such as Giant and Magnificent Obsession, he made a generation of postwar women swoon and fantasise; they were convinced of his rock solid straightness. Earth to Bret Easton Ellis: you needn't be straight to play a lady-spanker 2012-08-08T15:25:58Z In a way, this amounted to a callow extension of American exceptionalism—postwar national hubris, only negative. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z If you have any interest in Hollywood history, the postwar communist witch hunts, screenwriting or the art of biography, you should grab this new paperback of “Trumbo.” ‘Trumbo,’ soon to be a film, tells the tale of one of the Hollywood Ten 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Jarrar, 40, graduated from the University of Baghdad and received a master’s degree in architectural engineering with an emphasis on postwar reconstruction from the University of Jordan. Love, Not War, Resonates for Two Activists 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z The Design Museum’s director, Deyan Sudjic, was offered other sites but passed in favor of the Commonwealth, he said, “to make our project the first major renovation of postwar modernity in the city.” Millions of Square Feet, Billions of Dollars: An Arts Universe Expands 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Lubetkin himself, despite his brilliance, abandoned architecture after a testing year in which he tried to plan and design a postwar new town for the mining families in and around Peterlee in Co Durham. Finsbury Health Centre ? an expert's view 2010-04-12T19:26:00Z Parker again provides context for Brecht’s often distasteful actions in the postwar years. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht Düsseldorf provided an excellent environment for a budding artist; it was the site of the first postwar exhibition of Dada in 1958. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z Iconic monuments were destroyed and works of architecture left in ruins, the but the postwar effort to salvage, preserve, and rebuild was extraordinary. Rising from the Ashes 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z In the postwar era, even as they faced challenges from television, the antitrust division of the Justice Department and the demographic volatility of the audience, the studios conceived their mission in universal terms. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Munch refused to stay put; his constant motion can bring to mind that of the great peripatetic postwar German artist Sigmar Polke. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z And finally the postwar years, when she returned to a Leningrad in shambles and endured another Stalinist crackdown on the arts. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z Binge all eight episodes now or slowly take in the lush, meticulous backdrop that captures the contradiction of grim, postwar Paris and the world of haute couture. What’s on TV Friday: Ricky Gervais on Netflix and Revisiting Anna Nicole Smith 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Symphony for a Beloved Sun is a nod to one of Kapoor's heroes, the late German sculptor Joseph Beuys, who exhibited in the same atrium space shortly after the building's postwar restoration, in 1982. Anish Kapoor scathing on British culture 2013-05-15T16:52:11Z In 1963 they were collected in Towards a New Novel – for my money, one of the most important works of postwar literary criticism. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z Like many, the family struggled with the hardships of postwar Europe. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Times were getting tough for big bands in the postwar years, and Basie reduced his group from 18 pieces to a sextet in 1950, but he retained Mr. Terry. Clark Terry, Influential Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 94 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The house, which owes its fame to Andrew Wyeth’s famous postwar painting “Christina’s World,” showing a woman in a pink dress crawling through a field toward home, is closed to the public until Memorial Day. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Seacrest is a collector of postwar and contemporary works, according to the museum. Ryan Seacrest, Ann Ziff among new trustees at LACMA 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Crammed with sinister shadows, shady characters and skewed angles, it takes place in the rubble-strewn, postwar Vienna, opening right after Lime has ostensibly died. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z I learned this after I chose to set my novel “A Gentleman’s Murder” at a prestigious club for veterans in what I thought would be the glamorous world of postwar London. Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Look at a graph of postwar obesity rates and it becomes clear that something changed after 1980. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Here, the image of short-back-and-sides policemen in their black Wolseleys, the visual embodiment of benevolent authority from countless postwar crime dramas, disquietingly masks a corrupt and amoral world. Stop or we'll shoot: British cinema's portrayal of the police 2011-08-11T21:10:00Z In addition to postwar art, the collection includes plein air, Social Realist and important early Modern paintings from the first half of the 20th century, especially in Southern California. A storied art collection shrouded in mystery will anchor new UC Irvine museum 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z You are surrounded by galleries presenting solos of little-known or underappreciated postwar artists, like a seminar in the flesh. Amid the Bloat at Frieze, Art Worth Seeking Out 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It was lost in the murk of the postwar years, and de Man gambled accurately that no one really wanted to wade into it. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z Gates tersely notes how Rumsfeld demanded control over postwar planning, didn’t do any and then abdicated responsibility for the mess that followed. How Can the U.S. Fix Its Foreign Policy? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z They eventually settled in Albany; after a postwar stint in the military, Weinberg studied history at the University of Chicago, focussing on the Second World War and foreign policy. A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z It is a story of drab origins in the postwar period, a place of ration books, National Health specs and grandmas who insist on knitting you itchy jumpers. My Animal Life by Maggie Gee 2010-05-14T23:31:00Z Starting in the postwar period, tranquilizers were marketed and prescribed to many women who were experiencing discontent related to their domestic roles. Mother’s Little Helper Is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Bowie would talk of his brother sparingly, but with affectionate gratitude, acknowledging Terry for introducing him to Beat literature and jazz, the emblems of American cool for postwar youth everywhere. In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z And a final question: What were the unintended consequences of this dominant postwar viewpoint? Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z After the Red Army conquered Berlin in May 1945, the city was under Soviet control for two months, and Stalin proposed hosting a postwar conference for the victors there. Looking Back on 16 Days That Shaped History 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Michael has gone missing after traveling to Germany, where postwar repercussions have led to much political and economic instability, including assassination attempts and hyperinflation. ‘Downton Abbey’ and History: A Look Back 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z And though the hair styles and casual clothes of the postwar decade are worn without irony today, that time is foreign to ours. On the Road: Sex, Drugs and Kristen Stewart 2012-12-20T16:00:10Z In contrast the works’ assorted patterns and paintings are tightly layered, alluding, it would seem, to postwar modernism’s infatuation with flatness. Art in Review: JOHN MCALLISTER: ?Damned Sparkling Pomp? 2011-10-20T18:54:20Z Bacall was playing for real a high-grade version of the postwar homemaker bride, but she was not in many movies. Lauren Bacall obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Yes, for the past few years, postwar and contemporary art has been reselling at auction faster than, say, a decade ago, the data show. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Others are little-known in the United States, and this is the first American show in more than three decades to examine the Progressives’ entire collective postwar output, as well as their later, independent careers. Firebrands Who Forged a New Art for a New India 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z A former law student and leftwing activist, Oshima worked in direct opposition to what he felt was the timid gentility of postwar Japanese cinema. Nagisa Oshima dies aged 80 2013-01-15T13:50:08Z The postwar revelations of the Soviet penetration of the British secret service by the Cambridge spies cast a long, baleful shadow – not least over our novelists and screenwriters. Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring 2012-12-21T22:55:09Z Either way, the account’s always good for a quick hit of the clean lines and simple colors that I associate with postwar optimism as well as midcentury design. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Existential Photography, which features vernacular photography centred around the postwar phenomenon of the funfair shooting gallery – you aimed at the bullseye and if you hit it, it triggered a camera which took your snapshot. Tom Wood: the people's maverick photographer 2012-10-12T15:29:36Z Donizetti was, of course, a major beneficiary of the postwar revival of Italian bel canto operas of the early 19th century, which put a premium on vocal beauty and display. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z An inspector's report said Goldfinger, a Hungarian emigre who moved to London in 1934, considered Alexander Fleming House his "major work" which "endorsed his postwar interpretation for the city". Goldfinger's Alexander Fleming House finally gets Grade II listing 2013-07-09T13:53:22Z The postwar period also saw the expansion of education. Arts cuts are like ripping up the Magna Carta 2011-01-04T11:10:32Z “And, it is truly gratifying that the judges chose a novel which explores the realities of combat and its postwar impact on our troops.” Novel about Vietnam veteran wins $5,000 William Colby prize 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The Suit Stays on the Hanger at the Paris Men’s Shows Paris IN a haze of soot and postwar austerity, Robert Frank’s 1950s photographs of London bankers released a torrent of feeling. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z That meant lots of odes to fast girls and faster cars, but ultimately, Berry was teaching America’s postwar babies how to best live in a democracy. Perspective | Chuck Berry helped build rock-and-roll. Then he took it for a ride. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Enhanced by burning colors; outrageously tactile, rhinestone-studded surfaces; and fractured, almost Cubist perspectives, these images draw equally from 19th- and 20th-century French modernism, portrait painting, 1970s blaxploitation extravagance and an array of postwar pictorial styles. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z He grew up under harsh wartime conditions and describes Tokyo as a grim postwar city. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Korab captured the romance, moodiness and humanity of even the most austere postwar buildings. Balthazar Korab, Architectural Photographer, Dies at 86 2013-01-27T03:33:58Z It sold at Christie's auction of postwar and contemporary art on Wednesday. Bea Arthur topless painting fetches $1.9M in NYC 2013-05-17T01:58:09Z Photograph: EPA Reactions to film director 's ambitious attempt to reinterpret America's postwar history tended to divide along strictly ideological lines. Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z South Korea's path from postwar poverty to modern wealth is a rags-to-riches tale well suited to cinema, and it's intimately presented through one family in "Ode to My Father," the country's latest box office smash. 'Ode to My Father' stirs the box office and debate in South Korea 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The best activists can do, she says, is promote the value of postwar architecture to the community, as well as to sellers. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z That’s where she declares that, as a child growing up in postwar Yugoslavia, she didn’t play with dolls or toys. Review: Marina Abramovic’s ‘Walk Through Walls,’ a Memoir of Masochism and Pretension 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The landmark structures of air travel’s postwar golden age were monuments to the future with soaring roofs, wings like an enormous bird, and a great circular crown apparently designed to accommodate flying saucers. Thomas Frank: First we kill all the diamond-class five-million milers 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z His postwar life, by contrast, was family minded, English and writerly. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z Broadway has long been awash in musicals based on Hollywood films, but with its long dance passages re-creating postwar Paris and advancing the story, "An American in Paris" looks nothing like them. Ballet stars talk Tony-nominated 'An American in Paris' and Broadway leap 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Cornell MacNeil, one of the great postwar American baritones, best known for his roles in Verdi operas, died on Friday in Charlottesville, Va. He was 88. Cornell MacNeil, Verdi Baritone at the Met, Dies at 88 2011-07-18T03:30:33Z Watching Jack Nicholson’s bandaged gumshoe roam through Roman Polanski’s bleak depiction of postwar Los Angeles is just as depressing as it sounds. The Best Movies For Getting Over Your Ex 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Nothing goes quite as planned, and Silvio’s irrepressible jollity is no match for the tides and crosscurrents of postwar Italy. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z First, this is a sure-footed revival of a British postwar classic, perhaps the most shimmering English-language farce since Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Holland tracks his failures to finesse the postwar turnovers in power — though he did find a way with the Nazis — and his unorthodox approach and ample wealth don’t sit well with postwar apparatchiks. ‘Charlatan’ Review: The Miracle Worker 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z I had been schooled in Abstract Expressionism as ground zero for the postwar American avant-garde. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Loach remembers Britain's postwar solidarity with archive footage and more than a hint of nostalgia and Thatcher bashing. This week's new films 2013-03-16T06:00:06Z In short, if you wanted to make a fantasy movie set in some unidentifiable period of postwar America, you could use certain articles from Brooks Brothers and J. Press. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z The presence of the sculpture in Stepney was a demonstration of the postwar belief that everyone, whatever their background, should have access to works of art of the highest quality. Boyle joins Henry Moore protest 2012-11-04T12:08:37Z Though she drew inspiration from postwar American sculpture, Ms. Whiteread’s solidifications reintroduced human emotions into abstract art and subtly engaged with love, fear, illness and death. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z He’s very American: For me postwar America is about the way in which the industrial world is kind of reproduced in art. Thinking Outside Judd’s Boxes: His Legacy Still Shapes Artists 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z His old buddy is now tracking Gunther in order to kill him for refusing to leave his postwar job as a hotel concierge in Nice and assassinate Gunther’s estranged wife, Elisabeth. ‘Prussian Blue’: Philip Kerr’s crime fiction at its best 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z More observations of Europe, from the postwar years into the 21st century, were faithfully recorded in journals, which were being prepared for publication before her death. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z Spotted dog was a significant part of our growing up, possibly because in the postwar austerity of the late 40s/early 50s the ingredients were inexpensive. Family life 2012-06-22T23:05:19Z Karen Rosenberg Artists have long suspected that the brief career of Blinky Palermo, who died in 1977 at age 33, is a missing puzzle piece in the history of postwar abstraction. The Week Ahead: Feb. 20 ? 26 2011-02-17T15:17:47Z Far from receiving postwar state support for his patriotic artistic efforts, he found himself navigating “the vagaries of the American marketplace without a financial lifeline.” Our country’s first spin doctors: The painters of the American Revolution 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Our First Open sales, auctions of postwar and contemporary art that are live sales taking place in London, New York and Hong Kong, also have an online-only component, too. Christie's Ramps Up Online-Only Sales 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Over all, the estimated sales in postwar and contemporary art are half what they were last year. The Art Market’s Reaction to Trump? Sales This Week Offer First Test 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z If postwar business leaders were community-minded, those norms reflected the regulations of the New Deal period and the temporary power of trade unions. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Released in the Soviet Union in 1956, it was a harbinger of the post-Stalin thaw and the emergence of a new postwar generation. Eldar Ryazanov, Russian Film Director Known for His Satire, Dies at 88 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It is an emblem of a time that has absolutely vanished: when postwar suburbs, at their best, were places of possibility, of innovation and new ideas. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The report also noted that, while Bing had received more than 1.5 million francs in postwar compensation from the French government for items seized by the Germans, the painting had not been listed among them. He Lost a Courbet Fleeing the Nazis. His Heirs Are Getting it Back. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z But his early works depicting postwar South Korea and decades of military rule are far from the themes he has focused on during the past two years. A Founding Father of Korean Multimedia Comes to Maastricht 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The annex, with its fading wallpaper and Frank’s newspaper clippings still pasted to the wall, will remain preserved in its postwar state during the renovations. Anne Frank Who? Museums Combat Ignorance About the Holocaust 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Moholy-Nagy carried the Constructivist aesthetic into the postwar era — presaging kinetic art, early Minimalism, environmental art and even Conceptual Art. ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,’ Vision and Precision in a Fluid Braid 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In actuality, African Americans enthusiastically moved into suburbs to carve out their slice of the postwar American dream. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Taylor knew well the endless dreary tasks with which postwar domestic life and motherhood were filled. The other Elizabeth Taylor's Complete Short Stories 2012-07-06T21:55:05Z I also recently read the Lowell-Hardwick correspondence, “The Dolphin Letters,” which reads like an engrossing epistolary novel from some postwar American Bloomsbury. Attention, Working Writers: Lorrie Moore Admires What You Do 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z British writer Alan Sillitoe, whose "Saturday Night And Sunday Morning," and "The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner" chronicled the bleak postwar realities of the country's poor, died Sunday. British author Alan Sillitoe dies aged 82 2010-04-25T16:46:00Z Sandbrook's writings on postwar Britain, Starkey's on the Tudor monarchy, Schama's on the early modern Netherlands, and many other, similar books manage to combine popular appeal with solid scholarship. The death of celebrity historians is much exaggerated 2012-05-27T21:00:01Z These impulses propelled Robert Scull, and his wife, Ethel, through one of the greatest, most influential shopping sprees in postwar American art. Art Review: At Acquavella, Art From Robert and Ethel Scull?s Collection 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z The modern idea of the cinema is in its uprooting—the appreciation by French critics, in the immediate postwar years, of the art of Hollywood directors considered apart from the conventions of the studio system. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The discussion of the issue has largely focused on the postwar and contemporary markets, where there is the perception that a commodities trading approach has become prevalent. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z She also felt increasingly sidelined: in staid, patriarchal postwar Britain, her husband was the one in demand. Lee Miller: the model, the monster and the mother 2013-04-22T21:00:00Z The Modern was swept into the postwar period on the wave of Abstract Expressionism; it was in the market for Pollocks and de Koonings. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, the design is in every sense a response to its location in Trousdale, a swish residential community developed in the postwar years along a slope in the northeast corner of Beverly Hills. Marmol Radziner Designs a Modern Beverly Hills Home 2014-01-30T05:00:00Z "It is the most important cache of art from the Nazi era to be found in private hands since the immediate postwar period," said Jonathan Petropoulos, a Claremont McKenna College history professor in California. Swiss museum readies for Nazi-era art trove show, seeks works' heirs 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It sold Tuesday night at a Christie's auction house postwar and contemporary art sale. Lichtenstein 'Room' painting fetches $43M in NYC 2011-11-09T03:27:12Z Nevertheless, Magritte clung to this nominal sunlight in the immediate postwar years, making more politically critical pictures and exacerbating what seems like almost deliberate visual awfulness. ‘René Magritte: The Fifth Season’ Review: Where Day and Night Meet 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Beckman is one of six artists whose work is new to the Broad’s collection of postwar and contemporary art. The Broad acquires 29 new works, keeping an eye on local artists 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Not to mention the whole larger idea of postwar L.A. worked against that. CicLAvia co-founder Aaron Paley discusses the event's future 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Among the works from that decade are a group of canvases called “Secretary,” “The Secretary’s Day” and “Stenographer,” which reflect “that postwar era when women entered the workforce,” as Mr. Elderfield put it. De Kooning Retrospective Is to Open at MoMA 2011-09-13T17:57:51Z But for many decades, postwar Germany’s treatment of gay men was also neither liberal nor progressive. ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z European material from late Renaissance to early Modern predominates, although there are many earlier examples, as well as detours into American and postwar works as well as the odd oil study or painting. Art Review: Drawing an Escape From the Chill of Winter 2011-01-27T00:35:08Z But maybe Oldboy can be seen as a traumatised reaction to South Korea's turbulent postwar political life. Seoul searching: how politics plays out in South Korean cinema 2012-11-07T13:31:27Z Vestiges of the ancient city that remain make you empathize with the traumatized, postwar population that was so wistful for the beautiful heritage lost. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Didion came to prominence with a series of incisive, searching feature articles in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post that explored the fraying edges of postwar American life. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Overlapping polychrome circles and squares from the 1920s gave way to the postwar bombast of oversize sickle motifs and quasi-neoclassical rosettes and scrollwork. 4 Books to Inspire Your Inner Designer 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z At the same time, postwar U.S. hegemony obviously never extended to more than a portion of the globe. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z While acknowledging that helping to hide Jews often carried a stigma in postwar Poland, he also points out that over 1,000 Poles were executed by the Germans for doing just that. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Topakian, the box’s curator, writes that a postwar Beethoven Seventh in Vienna represents Furtwängler “at his purest,” while the intensity of his Berlin account from 1942 was “nothing to do with the work.” A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z This reconstruction of postwar politics traces the complicated relationship between the rising United States and the declining United Kingdom, with British world experience over centuries confronting an untutored Washington. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Amid the rapidly shifting politics of postwar Europe, however, with America and Britain confronting Soviet expansionism and suddenly interested in raising German morale, work on “Factual Survey” was abruptly halted. ‘Night Will Fall’ Examines the Making of a 1945 Holocaust Documentary 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z In the postwar years, the rise of car culture and the growth of the suburbs planted drive-ins in wide-open spaces, while grindhouses, art houses and campus film societies flourished in the cities and college towns. In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Her work was exhibited with that of Josef Albers, Jean Arp and other postwar abstract artists. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Mrozek, who began his career as a journalist and cartoonist, was known for mordant allegorical plays whose absurdism lampooned the political and social climate of the postwar Eastern Bloc. Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z Would that Ms. Caux’s documentary, about the Minimalist strain in postwar American music, were anywhere as provocative or challenging as these tidbits. | 'The Colors of the Prism, the Mechanics of Time': The Sound of (Experimental) Music 2011-06-17T00:14:15Z The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new. Review | A look at the two men who turned up the volume on rock music 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It presages one of the staples of postwar modernity — the monochrome, or one-color painting — and arrived in New York just as several painters were getting their Abstract Expressionist chops in order. ‘The Red Studio,’ Matisse’s Masterpiece, Gets a Life All Its Own 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Portable toilets arrived in Europe with the US army in the 1950s, Lewis says: "They watched us all digging latrines over in postwar Germany, and they thought, we've got something a lot better than that." Why Glastonbury 2012 is going down the pan 2010-10-18T19:00:00Z The Met’s exhibition of 29 of the 57 pieces it received proposes an exciting broadening of postwar art. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The Neapolitan quartet tells the story of two friends growing up in postwar Naples who must fend off physical violence and sexual aggression as they try to escape to a better life. The Real Elena Ferrante Surfaces-In Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In the postwar years it became a sure sign of modernity and freshness. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z New in paperback, Gig Harbor author Lance Weller’s debut novel follows a Civil War veteran who looks back on his harrowing war experience from a postwar home on the shores of the Olympic Peninsula. NW books: Take a trip down Highway 99 2013-05-24T19:44:24Z It was humor for a self-satisfied postwar society. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Written by Cesare Zavattini, who did the screenplays for many of De Sica’s best-known works, the movie skewers the mendacity inherent in the postwar economic resurgence in his country. Review: From Vittorio De Sica, the Comic Anxieties of la Dolce Vita 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Billed as "Britain's youngest singing star," she performed widely on the postwar concert and variety circuit with forays into radio, gramophone recording and even early television. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z It warned American soldiers stationed in postwar Germany to maintain vigilance until the nation showed signs of being “cured.” A Visual Memoir Asks What It Means for Germany to Reckon With Its Past 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z And yet the reality of postwar Italy is very much visible in “Voyage,” as is a strong intimation of the direction of Italian cinema in the coming years. Movie Review: Rossellini’s ‘Voyage to Italy,’ With Ingrid Bergman 2013-04-30T21:07:27Z The contest between these two philosophies happened over two world wars and two postwar peaces. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z She belonged to the generation of celebrated postwar British actresses that included Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith and Glenda Jackson, though she was perhaps less well known overseas than they. Susannah York, British Actress, Dies at 72 2011-01-17T04:58:05Z The postwar president is remembered as a genial golfer. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Yet unlike many of the leading intellectuals in Spain, Mr. Delibes never fled postwar Spain or the Franco dictatorship, which he abhorred. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z All these qualities were on display in Lansdale’s first major postwar posting, in the newly independent Philippines, where on behalf of the C.I.A. he helped suppress the left-wing Hukbalahap insurgency in the early 1950s. The War That Never Goes Away 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z She played an instrumental role in the development of postwar American art, championing pop art, minimalism, language-based and conceptual work, and land art. A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In the postwar era of rationing, they abduct a pig being secretly kept by grand townsfolk for a special civic feast to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z He is the great postwar poet of disorientation and disjuncture; he wrongfoots his audiences at least a dozen times in every movie. Roman Polanski 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z His postwar life was uneventful; he worked a succession of low-wage jobs and raised his family in Shepherd's Bush, west London. The music we choose at funerals reveals much about our loved ones 2013-06-18T13:22:53Z It was not only theorists who believed this in postwar Britain. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z “Remove the barrier of location and time, and you open it up to the broadest buying public possible,” said Amy Cappellazzo, the chairwoman of postwar and contemporary development at Christie’s. Warhol Foundation to Disperse Collection 2012-09-05T21:00:00Z The modern push for civil rights, Holt convincingly demonstrates, was first incubated in the rapidly changing cities of the postwar South. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The 20 paintings on fabric here by Claude Viallat, rigorously composed yet teeming with chromatic invention, may add up to the most significant postwar art history lesson in town this summer. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Lowry was most celebrated, Clark said, in the immediate postwar era up to the end of the 1960s – "in social-democratic, postwar Britain" when, he argued, Lowry's work was more in tune with the times. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z They condense the German century of military and authoritarian atrocities into one family’s story—and reveal the endurance and success of the former authoritarians in the bosom of West Germany’s postwar democracy. What to Stream This Weekend: Ten Farewell FilmStruck Films 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Such are the inconveniences of visiting a postwar country like Sri Lanka. Next Stop: In Postwar Sri Lanka, Beaches, Temples and Military Checkpoints 2010-03-12T02:50:00Z This year marks the 70th anniversary of World War II, and the museum is observing the occasion with an exhibition of works from the postwar years to the present. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z In 1965, President B. Lyndon Johnson announced that he wanted to clear out American storage of works that had been seized in the postwar era. A Portrait of Rembrandt Goes on Show. But Did He Paint It? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Sarrazin criticises the country's postwar immigration policy and what he sees as the failure of its Arab and Turkish communities to integrate. New Europe: reading up on Germany's bestselling books 2011-03-14T17:54:11Z Jonathan Wright We have Americans to thank for the postwar boom in the British sports car industry. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z Reem Fadda also commented on the UAE’s artistic solidarity with the Arab world, at one point in her lecture likening the Gulf states to a “postwar New York” for Arab artists. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z It was left to each postwar government to conduct proceedings to decide ownership claims. Nazi-looted-art case against Norton Simon Museum set for 2016 trial 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z He was a prime example of the literate, Oxbridge type of director who flourished in the postwar era. David William obituary 2010-08-23T17:41:00Z |
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