When Parker first meets James on a beautiful beach in France, she thinks she's fallen in love. But because he lives so far away in Australia, while she is in New York, she doesn't think they will ever be more than friends. As time passes on, James finds a girlfriend, leaving Parker speechless and hurt. Mid junior year, she bumps into Mark Samuels, a senior, and he starts talking to her after he recently breaks up with his long term girlfriend, but he ends up breaking Parker's heart for longer than she would ever admit. Then college comes around and it's where she thought she had fallen in love again, yet life seems to have decieved her again. So before she graduates with her BA in fashion marketing, she decides to write a list of things she wants to do before she dies. Number one; be the person someone looks up to in their life, be their hero one way or another. So she finds herself on a plane to India to look for anyone who might need her help. When she finally finds a little boy with a deadly sickness, she panics, but tells herself that it's all worth it in the end. As he inspires her to follow her heart and tell the person she is in love with how she really feels, she takes his advice and flies to Australia to find James. Will he let her into his life, say the three words every woman wants to hear, and end up together or will fate take things into its own hands?

Late in his life, confined to a chair or bed, Matisse transformed a simple technique into a medium for the creation of a major art. I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. Cutting dynamic shapes from painted paper, Matisse created his images. While producing pieces for Jazz, the artist used a large brush to write notes to himself on construction paper. The simple visual appearance of the words pleased Matisse, and he suggested using his reflective handwritten thoughts in juxtaposition with the images. The original edition of Jazz was an artist s book, printed in a limited quantity. This selection from the original is an exquisite suite of color plates and text that, like the music it was named for, was invented in a spirit of improvisation and spontaneity. These magnificent cut-outs of pure color celebrate the radiance and emotional intensity of the artist s oeuvre. "

In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse, introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.

In 1995, Welcome Books published the star of its "Art and Poetry" series, "Dance Me to the End of Love", a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse. Now, for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome presents a new edition of "Dance Me to the End of Love" featuring a revised design. Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us, and its healing power. Originally recorded on his "Various Positions" album, and featured in Cohen's anthology, "Stranger Music", this poetic song is gloriously married to artwork by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his murals. "Dance Me to the End of Love" is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of Europe At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making Marvels demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inventions. Featuring 150 exemplary objects ranging from mechanical toys to scientific instruments, timepieces to automata, this groundbreaking study brings to life a glorious period when luxury, a quest for knowledge, scientific invention, and political power combined to produce remarkable works of art. More than frivolous playthings, these works inspired technical innovations that influenced a broad spectrum of activities, including astronomy, engineering, and artisanal craftsmanship. This remarkable volume explores works in a wide range of materials, including precious metals, gemstones, pietra dura, marble, ivory, wood, bone, shell, glass, and paper. The book's compelling essays address the layered historical context in which these objects were fashioned and gathered into cabinets of wonder at courts throughout Europe; elucidate their complex blending of art and science; and provide fascinating details about the patrons who commissioned them and the specialists who made them. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 25, 2019-March 1, 2020)

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A woman in trouble. Amanda Wilson is in trouble and as usual, it has everything to do with her irresponsible brother. So, she heads to her best friend's cabin in Lake Geneva for a weekend of solitude and soul-searching. But she didn't count on the blizzard or the unexpected arrival of the man who broke her heart. The man she's come to think of as the devil. A man from her past. Fresh out of the Navy SEALs, Jake Lowell is ready to start his own business using his trust fund as seed money. But his grandfather has other ideas and changed the terms, requiring Jake to marry before he gets access. Now he needs a plan. But first, he has to head to Lake Geneva where his ex is vacationing, ignoring all the weather bulletins and her best friend's calls, pleading with her to come home. A deal that changes everything. Getting stranded in Lake Geneva wasn't part of Jake's plan. Neither was his proposal. And he definitely hadn't expected her to agree, but she did. Now they must deal with unresolved feelings and the issues that tore them apart a year ago. Jake's proposal seemed like the perfect solution for both of them but it's soon clear their harmless little engagement deal is far more complicated than either could have imagined.

Follow the Vancouver Canucks 1st Round Draft pick as he makes he way through his NHL Draft season as a member of the Belleville Bulls. Brendan Gaunce allowed us to interview him each and every week through his 2011/2012 hockey season.

The Museum Of Modern Art, November 13, 1951 To January 13, 1952; The Cleveland Museum Of Art, February 5 To March 16, 1952; The Art Institute Of Chicago, April 1 To May 4, 1952; The San Francisco Museum Of Art, May 22 To July 6, 1952.