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...lightness" of being. Says Peggy Guggenheim Collection director Philip Rylands: "He also represents Peggy's enabling capacity. She empowered artists just by being there." The New York-born niece of Solomon R., Peggy Guggenheim moved to Europe with her young family in the '20s and, mixing in mainly avant-garde circles, decided to open her own gallery at the age of 39. She famously declared an intention to "buy a picture a day," but Guggenheim was no dippy dilettante. Around her she collected the best committee of art advisers imaginable, from Marcel Duchamp to Samuel Beckett, who urged...
...Bulli has also become the center of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike are scrutinizing the gin fizz that manages simultaneously to be hot and cold, the edible "paper" dotted with flowers, the frozen parmesan "air" that comes packed in a Styrofoam tub, and asking: Is it art or is it dinner? "We aren't saying that cooking is a new art form," says Ruth Noack, Documenta's curator. "We're saying that Ferran Adrià shows artistic intelligence." That distinction was lost last summer when director Roger Buergel...
...have to admit Clarkson has a strapping, swooping voice. But it lacks a defined personality, reflected in the bloated industrial-Pat Benatar knockoffs ("Haunted," "Don't Waste My Time," the single "Never Again") that dominate the album. When they aren't in that mode, Clarkson and her new, hardly avant-garde producer David Kahne (Bangles, Sugar Ray) dabble with proven formulae: They know a solemn ballad must start with a lone strummed guitar ("Sober") and that a horn section and a throaty delivery can lend a bit of earthy Christina Aguilera cred ("Yeah...
...million won't change that; nothing, not even money, can get people to enjoy something against their will. What poetry really needs is a writer who can do for it what Andy Warhol did for avant-garde visual art: make it sexy and cool and accessible without making it stupid or patronizing. When that writer arrives, cultural change will come swiftly, and relatively effortlessly. And Barr will be waiting, with a check...
...used-clothing stores. To keep their stock looking current, shops sneak some new clothes into the mix. At Buffalo, about 20% of the items for sale are new pieces--mostly shoes, jewelry and hosiery--purchased by headquarters and distributed to each outlet. "It gives our stores a more contemporary, avant-garde feel," says Kerstin Block, the Swedish-born founder of Buffalo, who originally hoped to be a museum curator before opening her first store in Tucson, Ariz., in 1974. Since no store gets more than two or three of the same thing, buyers are none the wiser. (New items...