November 30, 2002

KUALA LUMPUR — Sixteen Malaysian, Singaporean and French artists are putting their artistic works on display at a weeklong exhibition at the Soka Gakkai Malaysia here. The “Pont de Arts” exhibition, which was opened by French Ambassador to Malaysia Jacques Lapouge Sunday, showcases 66 art works by the artists, who all studied at the prestigious […]

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, Berlin, until February 9, 2003. Tel: +49-30-254 860. Think of the early 20th-century avant-garde, and the great names rise up like Poseidon from the waves: Picasso, Tzara, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Le Corbusier. By the 1940s, in western Europe, these pioneers’ work had become a common standard for artists, the new orthodoxy: the