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...like La Scala, the Met and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, she has remained with the State Opera, where she is paid the same salary as other house singers. Onstage in Vienna, she has made a specialty of mezzo-soprano roles in Mozart operas like Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito, and she performs regularly in recitals and concerts around the world. Opera guru Christopher Raeburn, who was among the first to spot Kirchschlager's talent - he also helped put mezzo Cecilia Bartoli on the map - calls her Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...small, round holes with a variety of substances and glued objects - including thick paint, glitter, colored stones and sand - to draw the viewer's eyes in a controlled swirl of fanciful symmetry while almost surreptitiously adding third and fourth dimensions. His large, egg-shaped works from the La Fine di Dio (The End of God) series of 1963-64, where a uniform surface is entirely pocked with deep gashes, could just as well be considered sculpture as painting. By the time Fontana died in 1968, the initial snickering (particularly from the New York art world) that his work was gimmicky...
...Maier's latest collection displays a more high-fashion approach, with Venetian glass beads adorning his bags and necklaces. A limited-edition line of bags comes with exchangeable woven straps, allowing the owner to change looks on a whim. While Maier was designing these delights, Bottega's CEO Patrizio di Marco was opening stores in New York, Paris, Milan and London. What better way to show off Bottega's new look? The Art of Shopping American artist Barbara Kruger is credited with paraphrasing Descartes to say: "I shop, therefore I am." The world's favorite pastime is celebrated...
...wanted there for jumping bail on 12 charges of infringing the trademark on Microsoft Windows. Police are weighing fresh charges in Germany against a request for extradition to the U.K. (though Murray-Cowan has not been convicted of anything). In an unrelated case, Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, announced last week it had conducted synchronized raids across nine Italian provinces, closing down an Internet piracy ring with an estimated turnover of over $60 million a year in CDs, DVDs, pornography and high-priced software titles. Investigators say it was one of the largest-ever software piracy busts...
...color of sand, nearly 2,000 years old, sits on its Israeli owner's kitchen cabinet. Its inscription, as with most Semitic writing, starts on the right. "Ya'akov, bar Yosef," it begins, carved strong and deep in the stone. James, son of Joseph. Then, slightly more eroded, "akhui di..." Brother of. And at the end, clearly visible from only close up, "Yeshua." Jesus. The language is the Aramaic spoken by Jews in Jerusalem in the 1st century A.D., but the words are so simple that any Hebrew reader would know the meaning. Here, in this bone-box, or ossuary...