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...buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years ago for Asher B. Durand's 19th century landscape Kindred Spirits, a local icon that nobody seemed to remember was a local icon until the trucks arrived to take it away. Walton proposed to buy the Eakins jointly with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, then have the two museums shuttle it back and forth...
...testament to just how unnoticed their first two albums went. “Traffic and Weather” marks the first new release from the light-hearted popsters in four years, as their 2005 album “Out of State Plates” was a compilation of B-sides and previously-unreleased singles. In those four years, their sound has evolved subtly while maintaining its fundamental principles of universally palatable melodies and endlessly listenable lyrics. This latest record packs into 14 fresh songs more characters than a Shakespeare play and more momentum than a Barack Obama presidential campaign. Every...
...meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be an experience. Envisioned as a tribute to the grimy heyday of grindhouse cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double feature B-movie extravaganza screens as two separate flicks: Rodriguez’s zombie spectacular “Planet Terror” and Tarantino’s slasher/souped-up car ride “Death Proof.”The two are even separated by a series of faux trailers contributed by the directors?...
...have not yet transcended race,” he said. “If we want to become a successful democracy, we have to get beyond race.” The event was hosted by the Harvard African Law Association and coordinated by Law School student Joel B. Pollak ’99, Leon’s personal speechwriter from 2002 to 2006. “I’ve always been interested in South African politics,” Pollak said, “and [being on Leon’s staff was] the best way to get involved...
...Id”), and her newest work, “Big,” doesn’t seem to contain any breakout hits. However, it’s a solid album that traverses the gap between Gray’s old-school soul stylings, modern R&B, and even hip-hop influences. “Okay” is probably the catchiest song of the bunch. It’s hard to play this song without doing a dance and singing along. It’s also the best of a few collaborations with will.i.am and a more modern...