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MISOGYNIST MESSAGE. The 1987 Guns N' Roses debut album portrayed a battered woman with her panties around her ankles. After protests, the artwork was changed...
...prehistoric Lascaux caves in France's Dordogne region were closed in 1963 because the presence of tourists was destroying the 17,000-year-old paintings on their walls. Now Lascaux II, a replica built nearby in 1983 to give visitors a sense of the Cro-Magnon artwork, has become so overcrowded that entry is limited to 2,000 a day. The great Cathedral of Notre Dame in the heart of Paris has yet to take such extreme measures, but it may soon have to: more than 11.5 million people visited the church last year to admire its Gothic architecture...
...that grows more revered by the day. Millions more people have seen him pushing Nike Air Jordans, Pepsi and Wheaties than performing magic -- make that outperforming Magic -- on a basketball court. But all the commercial hype and publicity fade away when he does play, for Michael Jordan is the artwork and the artist, the poem and the . poet. He reinvents the sport every time he rises -- and rises -- into the air. He plays the game without cliche...
Sheba is the artist responsible for the flower peace signs that occassionally appear on the walk in front of Au Bon Pain. However, according to the hippie, it is unlikely that his artwork will appear there anymore, as the restaurant recently ruled the designs to be a public nusiance...
...Artwork in Adams House Tunnels: I'll bet they don't have tunnels like these back in York, Maine. Adams House gives new meaning to Oscar Wilde's famous dictum that all art is quite useless...