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...desolate villages southeast of Xi'an, the city that is home to China's famed terra-cotta warriors. These villagers may be dirt poor, but the earth is rich. In early 2001 whispers began circulating that collectors would pay big money for anything dug up from the tomb of Empress Dou, a mighty dowager who died in 135 B.C. So well known was the burial site that locals assumed grave robbers had relieved the tomb's chambers of any gold or silver centuries ago. But now collectors were willing to pay for artifacts the farmers hadn't imagined anyone would...
DIED. ELEANOR LAMBERT, 100, a.k.a. the Empress of Seventh Avenue, who as a publicist championed American fashion designers such as Bill Blass and Halston; in New York City. In the early 1940s, when Paris was deemed the industry's sole center, she organized press previews in New York, a precursor to Fashion Week; established the International Best-Dressed List; and nudged reluctant magazine editors to cover American designers. In 1962 she founded the Council of Fashion Designers of America...
Visitors should make their base in the seaside town of Biarritz--as chic as Cannes but less flashy. Biarritz is blessed with wide beaches, fashionable boutiques, bustling bistros and the Hotel du Palais (011-33-559-41-64-00), originally the summer palace of Empress Eugenie, wife of France's last Emperor, Napoleon III. Rooms start at $455 a night and range to $11,000 for one of three 5,000-sq.-ft. royal suites. The Palais is among the world's last "grande dame" hotels and offers impeccable service, fine dining and a modern...
...cultural credentials was Josephine de Beauhamais, best known as wife to Napoleon. While her husband relied on her for emotional support, his empire relied on her for her impeccable taste in art. Eleanor P. Delorme will present her new biography, Josephine: Napoleon’s Incomparable Empress, in a lecture hosted by the Harvard Bookstore at the Sackler Museum at 6 p.m. on Apr. 10. Complimentary tickets are available in advance at the Harvard Bookstore...
...there any way to generalize about Asian art? Not usefully, which the Houston show makes clear. There's no master key to both Kuichi Uchida's stately Portrait of the Empress, from 1872, and Daido Moriyama's feral Stray Dog, from 99 years later. The sheer multitude of Asian sensibilities is the first lesson that the explosion of Asian art has to teach. Perhaps because they come from traditionalist cultures, even many younger Asian artists produce work that, like Chen's, acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi...