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...Museum, a modern art gallery in the unlikely setting of an artificial peninsula jutting into the Danube's Gabc?kovo reservoir, some 15 km south of Bratislava. After teaching himself art history and doing a stint as a police investigator, Polakovic made repeated pilgrimages to sites related to the Dutch artist, researched a yet-to-be-published book on the last days of his life, and launched Yellow House, a modern art gallery in Poprad named after the artist's residence in Arles and exhibiting Van Gogh-inspired art. While at Yellow House, Polakovic persuaded Gerard H. Meulensteen, a Dutch...
...brick red, cobalt blue, lemon yellow and gray, Danubiana was built to resemble a Roman galley about to sail into the serene expanse of the Danube. Since it opened in 2000 and Yellow House closed, the museum has hosted some 30 shows featuring artists like Spanish sculptor Mart?n Chirino, Dutch painter Ad Snijders and Slovak painter Peter Poll?g. Coming up are "True Colors," the work of 68 U.S. artists responding to Sept. 11 (April 6 to May 23), and a retrospective of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (May 25 to June 17). Although no longer obsessed with Van Gogh, Polakovic honors...
...year-old reindeer horns), Pope burning (in effigy, of course) and the Darkie Day revels in Padstow, Cornwall (think merry English minstrels in blackface) all defy the march of time and political correctness in the name of tradition - with a bottle or two under its belt. And without Dutch courage, who would be daft enough to launch themselves down a 70? slope over 230 m in pursuit of a wheel of cheese? It's a small miracle that none of the scores of locals who have been taking part each May at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire has been killed...
...winner") and the various cosmetic condiments that have accompanied the smile over the years, from the 18th century English vogue for wearing mouse-skin eyebrows, to the Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
Perhaps we see too much in a smile. For Trumble, there's power in the mystery. Take Franz Hals's The Laughing Cavalier, where all that really laughs is the Dutch military officer's moustache. "A smile may stimulate us in certain superficial ways, eliciting a ready smile in response, for example, but it also penetrates the deep recesses of our subconscious mind," Trumble writes. "What makes Hals's portrait great is that it convinces us that something similar is taking place, even though we know at the same time that the source of stimulation is nothing more than paint...