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...Since striding onto the scene in the early 1990s, Banksy has vaulted from obscurity to international renown, all the while escaping detection. Among his catalog of greatest hits, Banksy has released an inflatable Guanténamo Bay prisoner doll at Disneyland, depicted England's Queen Elizabeth II as a chimpanzee, tagged the West Bank border fence and sneaked his own Mona Lisa - her inscrutable expression replaced by a yellow smiley face - into the Louvre. "He's kind of captured the zeitgeist," says Gareth Williams, a contemporary-art specialist at Bonhams auction house in London. "But he's done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banksy: An Artist Unmasked | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...perhaps, than when you're dealing with Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, seen by many as a founding figure of modern art, and by most Spaniards as an icon of nationalism and revolutionary politics. Mena speaks from personal experience. When she was asked to write the catalog description for The Colossus for a Prado's exhibition in 1989, she already had doubts, but she knew that the painting was an untouchable part of Goya's oeuvre. "Less was known about Goya then," says Mena, "and what was known was not to be questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Doubt over Goya's Colossus | 6/30/2008 | See Source »

...excused for feeling victimized by the old bait and switch, since promotional material for the book hints broadly at the romantic revelations ("Here, too, are her relationships with men - in and out of her marriages - and with her friends, co-workers and rivals," reads the Alfred A. Knopf catalog copy); the Brooke affair was the chief headline of virtually every gossip column item on the book; and Walters herself talked about it freely on shows like Oprah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbara Walters' Memoir: The No-Sex Edition | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Kwok On Collection - sometimes called the Pimpaneau Collection - is considered the world's finest trove of Asian theatrical and sacred masks, costumes and related pieces. Originally devoted to Chinese opera (it features, for example, the definitive catalog of memorabilia from the career of Mei Lanfang, the great Beijing Opera master who died in 1961 at the age of 67), the Kwok On Collection numbered thousands of pieces by the time it was housed in a small dedicated museum in Paris in the 1980s. By then, it had fallen into the hands of Jacques Pimpaneau, a French sinologist who added similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sails and Acquisitions | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Rhetoric”—formerly English 34. It will explore “contemporary applications” of “classical rhetorical theory.” Next year’s Gen Ed classes will be listed at the front of the 2008-2009 course catalog. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Six Courses Join Gen Ed Menu | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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