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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, detail | Image from Wall Street International. 1 February 2021 (Wall Street International)* — He was one of the greatest artists, if not the greatest, of the 20th century. But as a human being he left a lot to be desired. Selfish, authoritarian, his behavior with women was reprehensible. No one, however, doubts his genius. Among other things, and together with Georges Braque, he was the creator of Cubism, a pictorial style that uses geometric shapes to draw human forms or objects. Some critics point to the influence that Paul Cézanne and his thre...

© Luc Boegly To improve the functionality of the spaces on a controlled budget, we demolished the loadbearing walls to drill large openings in the facade allowing natural lighting and ventilation (VNRM). We also built a wooden extension and fitted out a wooden courtyard terrace on level 1. Based on environmental expertise, these elements participate in energy and environmental performance. © Luc Boegly We achieve it by associating innovative techniques and materials in the implementation: bio-sourced materials, bioclimatic optimization, extension in a wood frame with envelope reinforced by ...

On artists and art: New biographies take us behind the pictures By M. J. Andersen Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 3:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Gorodenkoff Productions OU/Gorodenkoff - stock.adobe.com Books about artists place their authors, at best, in a draw with their subjects. After all, the art is what drives our interest. How well can an account of the life, or an analysis of the work, ultimately compete? Still, the privilege of looking is not always ours. Especially if they contain good reproductions, books about artists can serve as bridges to their visual worlds. In â€...

11 New Books We Recommend This Week Dec. 10, 2020 Old worlds spring to life in this week’s recommended titles, from a scientific account of Neanderthal culture to a biography of the seminal American foodie James Beard. There’s a new edition of “The Babur Nama,” the diaries of the 16th-century warlord who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. A look back at the golden age of Egyptology starting in 1822 — which is to say, a look back at archaeologists looking (way) back. A biography of the modernist poet and painter Max Jacob, and one of Eleanor Roosevelt, and a novel set in Britain in...