A large fire burned through part of Rome’s famous movie studios. “The studios, which celebrated their 70th anniversary in April, were created by Italy’s wartime Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. But they became most famous as a symbol of the country’s postwar rebirth and were closely associated with the work of the flamboyant and iconoclastic director Federico Fellini.”
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Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies At 66
“Elizabeth Murray, a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself, died yesterday at her home in upstate New York.”
Inside Carnegie’s Towers, While They Still House Artists
“For twenty-two years, the photographer Josef Astor (no relation) has had a studio above the stage at Carnegie Hall. It’s on the eighth floor, although technically the eighth is below the seventh; to get to it you take an elevator to six and walk up half a flight of stairs. The Carnegie Hall Studio Towers, as these quarters over the concert hall are known, contain many such oddities, but they also harbor one Manhattan commonplace: a band of artist-occupants whose tenancy is venerable, tenuous, and probably doomed.”