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...Artist formerly known as Prince] in 1993, folks in the media have called him "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince." [The Artist], as it turns out, doesn't care for that title. His name, he says, is simply that unpronounceable symbol that looks like a combination of an ankh, an ampersand and a lollipop. Says [The Artist]: "I've made choices, and people can respect them or they can not respect them...
...nearly time to go. I'm still thinking about that ankh-ampersand-lollipop looking name. What does Mayte call him at home? "I never called him Prince when I met him," says Mayte, from her snug position on his lap. "Now I realize that names don't matter. For example, I don't know your name...
Died. Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, the 4th Baron Westbury, 46. unemployed ex-soldier heir of the legendary "Curse of the Pharaohs," which purportedly killed three kinsmen and numerous members of the 1922 archaeological team that excavated the more than 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen; of a heart attack; in Geneva. Secretary to the Egyptian expedition that uncovered the hieroglyphic anathema-"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh"-Lord Westbury 's father died six years after the discovery (also at 46), while his grandfather (who kept...
Died. Dr. Herbert Eustis Winlock, 65, famed Egyptologist, onetime (1932-39) director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Venice, Fla. As associate curator of the museum's Egyptian Department, Winlock was one of the 22 people who saw King Tut-ankh-Amun's sarcophagus opened at Luxor...
Boston gallerygoers recognized many a familiar Renaissance portrait, marveled at the contemporary look of Prince Ankh-haef's bust, tried to decide whether a terracotta bust of an unknown pre-Christian Roman looked more like Senator David I. Walsh or President Roosevelt. Most popular cynosure was Thomas Sully's famed, appealing portrait of a boy, The Torn Hat. Back Baynims were somewhat griped over the absence of Boston's own famed, facile society Portraitist John Singer Sargent. Retorted the Museum's Director George Harold Edgell: "In this collection, Sargent couldn't compete with Rubens, Velasquez...