Paris

...at the New York Public Library and lived in a tiny rented room in Greenwich Village. </p><p>"Everything I know I learned in the United States," he once said. </p><p>Despite several job offers to remain in America, he returned to France in 1944...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tobacco, France, World War II, New School, and American Anthropological Association

...revolution in the T-shirt industry. But Alberto Korda made no royalties from his iconic photograph of Che as it was emblazoned across young chests from Greenwich Village to the Left Bank in Paris. The Jackson camp isn't making that...

In this article: Michael Jackson, Capitalism, Che Guevara, Elvis Presley, Alberto Korda, Forbes magazine, Apple Computer, Jack Kerouac, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean

...Village album. He has lived mainly in Paris since the early 1970s, where he formed the Celestial Communication Orchestra, a group dedicated to the performance of free jazz with various instrumental combinations. In the 1990s he picked...

In this article: Alan Treadwell da Silva, Albert Ayler, New York City, Bermuda, United States, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, and Sun Ra

...retailers. Well, truth be told, it wasn't the Arc de Triomphe in Paris; it was the marble arch in Washington Square Park, in Greenwich Village, which architect Stanford White modeled on the famous French monument. And I wasn't on a...

In this article: McDonald's, Louvre, France, Arc de Triomphe, Mona Lisa, and French fries

Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who helped pioneer vocalese in New York and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died on Saturday in Greenwich Village after a long illness. She...

In this article: Blossom Dearie, Itunes, New York, Gil Evans, Dusty Springfield, Michel Legrand, and Ray Brown

...men that included composer John Corigliano and theatre director Michael Kahn . During his junior year he studied French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. He was a close friend of playwright William M. Hoffman whom he met at a bar in...

In this article: Opera News, William M. Hoffman, Festival dei Due Mondi, Literature, Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, Charles Scribner's Sons, Jean Genet, and Gian Carlo Menotti

...students during her time at Vassar , then a women's college. In January 1921 she went to Paris, where she met sculptor Thelma Wood, with whom she had a romantic relationship. During her years in Greenwich Village and Paris she also had...

In this article: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, New York City, Vassar College, George Dillon, Orrick Johns, and Democracy

...all sent her money for studies abroad. In 1929, with assistance as well from the Julius Rosenwald Fund , Savage enrolled and attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, a leading Paris art school. In Paris, she studied with the sculptor...

In this article: Augusta Savage, Cooper Union, New York City, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Marcus Garvey, and Harlem

...Brancusi never lost the contact with Romania and had friends from the community of Romanian artists and intellectuals living in Paris, including Benjamin Fondane, George Enescu, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu, Nicolae Darascu, Panait Istrati,...

In this article: Constantin Brancusi, Romanian, Auguste Rodin, Plato, Sigmund Freud, Tax, Nicolae Darascu, and Henri Pierre Roche