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ARTS: HEAVEN CAN WAIT Sun, sea, flowers, trees... Why do we persist with our bland holiday- brochure vision of paradise, asks Mark Irving, when the alternatives are so much darker, dirtier and sexier?
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Today, paradise is so banal and the language used to describe it
is not much better. Open any tourist brochure or listen wanly to most
television holiday programmes and you'll see what I mean. Beaches are
always deserted, pools always palm-fringed and the waters are
inevitably azure blue.
It's with relief that one turns to the richly dense visions of
paradise produced by Old Master painters, people who understood that
complexity could be divine. Peer into Jan Breughel's tangled Eden -...
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SUPER STAR, SUPER DRAW HAMPTON ROADS WILL BE ABLE TO SAVOR "REMBRANDT AND THE GOLDEN AGE" - AN ACT THAT WILL BE TOUGH TO FOLLOW.(LOCAL)(Editorial)
The Virginian Pilot
; The Chrysler Museum of Art's ``Rembrandt and the Golden Age'' exhibition, which opens tomorrow, is a happy event for the museum and Hampton Roads. Two masterpieces by Rembrandt - whose paintings, to the best of our knowledge, have never before come to Southeastern Virginia - are exhibition's core.
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Dutch Portraits National Gallery ; Five best London shows
The Independent - London
; The first golden age of the bourgeoisie, as depicted by Rembrandt and his contemporaries. To 16 Sept
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GOING DUTCH WHEN 14 DUTCH MASTER PAINTINGS, INCLUDING TWO BY REMBRANDT, COME TO THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART ON TUESDAY, IT WILL MARK AN UNPRECEDENTED SHOW. NEVER HAS THE NATIONAL GALLERY LOANED OUT SO MANY OF ITS 17TH CENTURY DUTCH PAINTINGS TO ONE INSTITUTION.(DAILY BREAK)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: TERESA ANNAS, STAFF WRITER IN THE EARLY years of the 17th century, Holland was like a robust youngster, feisty and ready to prove itself. Mighty Spain had held the northern European nation in a stranglehold for more than a century, and finally had been beaten back. Suddenly trade was
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Exhibitions: A new light on Utrecht Some surprisingly sensual painters were at work in the Dutch Golden Age
The Independent - London
; THE NAMES of Joachim Wtwael, Gerard van Honthorst, Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van der Lisse should trill or splutter on every art- lover's lips this spring, for the National Gallery has managed to put on a show of quite surprising originality by painters who - in this country at least - are
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Buy your Golden Age Passport now to lock in its benefits.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Travelers eligible for a Golden Age Passport _ which allows free admission to many National Park Service properties for those 62 or older _ would be smart to get one now if they plan to visit national parks or wildlife refuges in the future. Legislation pending in Congress is expected to bring
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