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From jail, the irrepressible faker can be expected to spend his leisure time discoursing to rapt fellow prisoners on his fabulous finagles, the reform policies of the Emperor Augustus and the spellbinding saga of the Honus Wagner baseball card with the $400,000 price tag. Betweentimes he can play Monopoly and catch up on his television. And when he gets out, he may be invited to lecture on collectibles at UCLA...
Manet thought "the most wounding insult that can be made to an artist" was to be called a history painter -- but he wanted to paint history too, though of a more recent sort: the killing of the Mexican Emperor Maximilian; and the battle between two Civil War ships, the Alabama and the Kearsarge, in French waters. The latter came out as a sort of imaginary journalism, rapidly painted to catch the urgency of a moment that, in fact, the painter hadn't seen. And though Manet was not notable for his piety in real life, he tried to reinvigorate biblical...
...American reputation bottomed out in 1964 with a show of nine florid paintings called Discourse on Commodus. They were trashed as a fiasco, in print and by word of mouth. Commodus was the degenerate son of Marcus Aurelius; he became Emperor in the 2nd century A.D., went mad and was strangled. Given the New York art world's self-absorption at the time, it seems fitting that Commodus' assassin was an athlete named Narcissus. Perhaps because of the trauma of their reception, the Commodus paintings are not in moma's show. In any case, Twombly was repatriated to America...
Awarded by Japan, the prize consists of ten million yen, or about $99,000, and a medal. Both will be presented on November 28 at a ceremony in Tokyo, attended by Emperor and Empress Akihito...
Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the so-called Butcher of Bangui who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic in 1979, was released from prison last September. During his six years of incarceration he underwent a mystical conversion to Christianity and declared himself the 13th Apostle of Christ. He lives alone, under informal guard, in a small three-bedroom house in downtown Bangui...