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Giuseppe Verdi: The Italian born a Frenchman
Addio, del passato bei sogni ridenti, Le rose del volto già son pallenti; L’amore d’Alfredo pur esso mi manca, Conforto, sostegno dell’anima stanca Ah, della traviata sorridi al desio; A lei, deh, perdona; tu accoglila, o Dio, Or tutto finì. Le gioie, i dolori tra poco avran fine, La tomba ai mortali di tutto è … Continue reading
Cy Twombly : American Artist
In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that … Continue reading
For Love of Common Words: Scafidi – Annie Leibovitz
… and the kiss my [love] just gave me on the back of my neck will stay here all day like a tattoo and the easy kiss of rhyme will also last all day so that if I could, I would kiss whoever wanted to in the dark I long for and miss, the yes-kiss, … Continue reading
