And, he added, for most of its history New York has hardly been a lofty sanctuary for artistes and littérateurs, but the world's most tenacious capital of commerce and avarice, a place where Charlotte's cut-to-the-chase, mid-70's civic slogan, "Charlotte -- A Good Place to Make Money," would not have been inappropriate.
The Holga is made of plastic and has very few focusing capabilities, which makes it perfect for artistes.
The album brought Lhasa much success, including the Quebec Félix Award in Canada for "Artiste québécois – musique du monde" ("Best world music artist from Quebec") in 1997 and a Canadian Juno Award for Best Global Artist in 1998.
Besides offering a great confluence of buzz and celebrity, a career-advancing opportunity for young filmmakers, a meat market for agents-on-the-make, a bazaar for indie-film distributors and a stage for artiste poseurs and hustler manques, it is also regarded as the year's prime opportunity to take the pulse of American independent filmmaking.
But so ferocious was this feud that it became all-consuming, and far from freeing up room elsewhere for the artistes, it simply set the example for everyone else to follow.
Written by Ronald Harwood (who adapted his own play), the film assembles a posse of lovable geezers in a palatial residence for aged artistes and entangles them in the mildest imaginable comic and dramatic situations.
During World War I Hoffman was active in Red Cross work and was the American representative for Appui aux Artistes, an organization for the relief of needy artists that she had helped found in France.
Nevertheless, the government in his time created the Sahitya Akademi (the national academy of letters), the Lalit Kala Akademi (for art), the Sangeet Natak Akademi (for music and dance) and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (for the international exchange of artistes).
More News From The Times Susan Dominus's Big City column looks at the fascinating life of Claire Oesch, a 93-year-old Swiss immigrant who has been a barfly at the Café des Artistes for decades, living for more than half a century above it, in the Hotel des Artistes.
Brian Rice, the Corcoran Group (212 875-2960; www.corcoran.com MAINTENANCE: $3,190 PROS: Apartments in this 1905 building built for artists -- by one of the architects who designed the Hotel des Artistes a few doors down -- are rarely available.
The phrase "documents pour artistes" is a reference to the sign he had outside his studio advertising his wares as source material for artists.
