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These days, you don't get 15 minutes of fame, you get maybe 15 seconds. Thirty if you're good. And then -- bang! We're tired of your sorry shtick already. Bring us a younger Debbie Gibson. Fetch us a prettier Julia Roberts. Get us a funnier Denis Leary.
Fame's clock is ticking fast, Leary knows. "You can be the 'two words' guy for two years and make millions," he says, chain-smoking in his manager's New York City office, "and then the next thing you know you're driving around with no work. People are coming...
All countries will join in using the year 2000 on their civil calendars, despite the number's Christian basis. Paradoxically, although Jesus' actual birth date is unknown, it is almost certain that he was born several years "before Christ." This anomaly occurred because of an error in the calculations of...
As Elderfield points out in a catalog essay, Matisse's luck with the critics has always been peculiar. At the outset, part of the tiny modern-art public in Paris thought his work incoherent, ugly. Others, like Gauguin's friend Maurice Denis, praised its absolutist devotion to "painting in itself...
The beautiful show of Guercino drawings on loan from the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle that opened this month at the Drawing Center in New York City reminds you, moreover, how labile reputation can be. Guercino was one of those 17th century Italian artists who sank under the weight of...