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...Overdue charge for a copy of The Punch Library of Humour checked out from a New Zealand library in 1945; the library waived the fine in return for permission to put the overdue book on display...
...East Coast ? used 122 makeup artists, 70 flame-thrower nozzles, 4,400 pounds of fireworks and 6,500 costumes. It was very Italian ? loud and somewhat chaotic, especially by comparison to the relatively sober 2002 winter games in Salt Lake, where a solemn ceremony began with the display of a tattered American flag recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The production had surprising lulls, though, such as the boring balloon heads who followed the fake cows pulled by waltzers in Holsteinesque spotted costumes on the white-floored performance ring, which the choregraphers called a mosh pit (piazzetta...
While Remele’s collections have graced runways before, this was the first time he presented his own designs at Fashion Week, an annual event at which designers display their fall collections. Remele said that the show went off without a glitch...
...goes, "give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man," then in Grant's case the age was four. The show begins with a suite of his kindergarten paintings of fairytale princesses, with the real subject being the bright swirl of their gowns. Displayed alongside is the full-blown bloom of that boyhood obsession: one of the huge crinolines Grant constructed for a 1994 exhibition in the gardens of a chateau outside of Paris. That show, Habiller D?shabiller, grew out of Grant's earlier studies in sculpture, and what makes the current one more...
...Jungen's most crucial moment of inspiration for the Proto- types came during a trip to New York City in the late '90s, when he wandered into Manhattan's enormous Niketown store, where athletic shoes are displayed in glass cases like precious objects. "I came there straight from the Metropolitan Museum," he says. "I was fascinated that the Nikes were on display in this museum-like environment." From there, it was just a short step to making Nike-like things for a real museum. As opposed to a lot of art that plays seriously with ideas, Jungen's masks, some...