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Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
Kofi Annan

drawing of Stanley Meisler by Sidney Wissner
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United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler
United Nations

Los Angeles Times articles by Stanley Meisler
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Smithsonian Magazine articles by Stanley Meisler
Smithsonian

Very British Republicans
December 28, 2009
How can we understand that stalwart band of forty Republican nay-sayers in the Senate, determined to prevent health reform no matter how necessary, determined to embarrass their president no matter how much they embarrass their country? The Republicans are behaving as if they have lost their way and somehow turned up in the British parliamentary system. They are like mean kids who show up for every baseball game with no gloves or bats but only skates and hockey sticks. The Republicans have deluded themselves about the American way of legislating for some time...
NEWS COMMENTARY

December 28, 2009

Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés: The revival of a masterpiece
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has had the late Frenchman's landmark work as part of its permanent collection for 40 years, marks the anniversary with a greatly expanded exhibition.
-- Reporting from Philadelphia --
Marcel Duchamp served for many years as both a prince and court jester to modern art in the 20th century. While creating some well-known works, he also punctured pretensions with jokes, pranks, aphorisms and a perpetual hunt for new byways of art. Then he announced he was abandoning art, giving it all up to play chess. But he was not telling the truth. He worked in secret for 20 years, assembling a huge, fanciful and puzzling diorama. When he died in 1968, only a few people knew about his secret. A year after his death, the Philadelphia Museum of Art installed the secret work and displayed it to the public. While some patrons were shocked by its sexuality, it soon became a magnet for young artists looking for new paths to take their own work. Duchamp's masterpiece, known as "Étant donnés," a shortened form of its French title, is now regarded as one of the most powerful and dynamic influences on contemporary art...
LOS ANGELES TIMES

September 27, 2009

Royal armor and portraits at the National Gallery of Art
A second Spanish-accented exhibition, on painter Luis Meléndez, is bound for Los Angeles.
-- Reporting from Washington --
Suits of armor were once so finely wrought that an attacking lance would glance off their smooth metal harmlessly. But then, as the Middle Ages moved into the Renaissance, European kings demanded that the craftsmen finish the armor with elaborate decoration. All the engraving and embossing upset the surface of the armor. A lance would no longer slip away. But that did not matter. Decorated armor was for show, so that the kings would look majestic and powerful and indestructible, especially in portraits by great painters...
LOS ANGELES TIMES

July 12, 2009

Obama and the United Nations (pdf)
WASHINGTON DC - Relations between the George W. Bush administration and the United Nations dropped so far into the lower depths that it does not take much of a prophet to predict that all will improve under President Barack Obama. Unlike John Bolton, the new president’s ambassador, Susan Rice, will not show up in New York determined to humiliate and decimate the U.N. Nor is Obama likely to start a war in defiance of his allies and the Security Council...
Hopes and Realities (pdf)
International Affairs Forum, Center for International Relations
January 18, 200
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Stanley Meisler & Kofi Annan (2002) by UN Photographer Eskinder Debebe Stanley Meisler - March on Washington (1963) Stanley Meisler & Nelson Mandela (2002) by UN Photographer Eskinder Debebe

Stanley Meisler is the author of the biography Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War and the history United Nations : The First Fifty Years. Meisler served as a Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent for thirty years, assigned to Nairobi, Mexico City, Madrid, Toronto, Paris, Barcelona, the United Nations and Washington. He still contributes articles to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday Opinion and Art sections and writes a News Commentary for his website, www.stanleymeisler.com.

For many years, Meisler has contributed articles to leading American magazines including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, the Nation, the Reader’s Digest, the Quarterly Journal of Military History, and the Columbia Journalism Review. While most of these articles focus on foreign affairs and political issues, Meisler has contributed more than thirty articles on artists and art history to the Smithsonian Magazine...

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