At Spring Art Auctions, a Second Strong Night. Sotheby's held a strong sale of Impressionist and modern art on Wednesday night, with a Cézanne still life bringing $16.7 million, a Degas pastel being snapped up for $16.5 million and a Giacometti bust selling for $13.7 million. By Carol Vogel. [New York Times: Arts]

Art is for rich people. The rest of us may admire it, but one need only ask, Who is the customer? to get a clear view of why it is made and for whom. Only after asking that question, would we be able to really understand the «meaning» of paintings.

Il est connu mais je m'en voudrais de ne l'avoir jamais mentionné. Dicorama et le métadictionnaire Onelook. Recherches en simultané extrêmement rapides. Un bon chien d'arrêt et excellent renifleur de pistes. Wouf!

Dicorama est à la fois un annuaire des dictionnaires et un moteur de recherche vous permettant de chercher un terme dans plus de 670 dictionnaires. (2 891 019 termes indexés).

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You may know this, but just in case, I thought I'd mention them: Dicorama and the meta-dictionary Onelook. Extremely fast, simultaneous searches. A good pointer and an excellent bloodhound, too. Woof!

Dicorama is both a collection of dictionaries and a search engine which searches more than 670 dictionaries (2,891,019 terms indexed).

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Récite-moi de la poésie

De la poésie pour l'oeil et l'oreille (qualité impeccable). Des textes nés en 14 langues. Possibilité d'affichage du texte en une (ou plusieurs) autre langue que celle déclamée. J'en frémis encore.

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Welcome to your personal poetry reading with poems read by the authors.

Poems should be read out loud and listened to. It is then that they reveal their innate musical quality. No matter what language a poem is written in and no matter where it is read in the world, it is immediately recognizable as a poem, as language fashioned into a distinctive structure, as a concert of words.

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