An eventual solution though probably not one that will happen on Mr MacGregor's watch would be to send the marbles back to Athens on loan and accept the Greek offer to provide a series of temporary exhibitions of classical art to fill the gallery.
His swirl is one of the hallmarks of Mannerism a mode of expression whose exaggerations broke the classical perfection and balance of the High Renaissance, and started art on the road to the Baroque.
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Hebborn was a fine draftsman, trained in classical techniques at the Royal Academy of Art.
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There are delicately delineated competition entries submitted jointly in the 1930s by father and son, including the prize-winning, streamlined, stripped-classical modernist scheme of 1939 for a new Smithsonian art gallery on the Washington Mall, never built because neither the sponsors nor the public were ready for it.
Still, while the professional performers of classical music are getting steadily younger, the audience for classical music remains older (though not richer) than the audience for any other art form, at least in America.
Though he could not read their hieroglyphic script, Evans was convinced by the remains of their art and architecture that the Minoans were every bit as brilliant and sophisticated as the classical Greeks.
Wiley's work, now more than ever, pushes the lines between design and high art, reinventing classical portraiture for a contemporary world.
Classical music concerts and the restoration of buildings and works of art absorb about three-quarters of this money.
There was a sweeping dismissal of emotional expression and of art that represented the capacity to take great pains to achieve Classical refinement and beauty.
Chicago has always understood the power of the arts, too, in helping it to carve out a strong identity (its art museum is staggering), and sitting among those iconic riverside buildings is the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a tempting mix of neo-classical exterior and golden art nouveau and art deco interior.
The two shared a stage at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art recently: She played classical pieces for solo violin, and he sang songs from his albums.
Outside the academics, I play basketball on a regular basis (don't ask about the jump-reach), do cross word puzzles with more interest than ability, and like classical music and art.
Trained as a Sovietologist, Rutten learned the art of restoration in Amsterdam before coming to the U.S. in 1992 to work for Classical Keyboards, a dealer in high-end pianos -- which promptly went bankrupt.
And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".
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