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...were focused back then on inner rebellion, the slouch of regret. It was when anguish got up from the analyst's couch and sidled onto the big screen. You can savor these DVDs for the vicarious angst or for the pleasure of seeing some movie lions in their prime. (Exhibit A: Alain Delon. Rawrr...
Kirstie Alley isn't the only TV veteran pushing a pet project about plumpness. In Maximum Beauty, an exhibit of his black-and-white photography scheduled to open in a New York City art gallery this summer, LEONARD NIMOY shows women from San Francisco's FAT- BOTTOM REVUE burlesque team dressed and undressed. The Star Trek star's 2003 book of photography, Shekhina, featured all slim models, something he says a "large-bodied" woman pointed out to him at a seminar. "This is a different representation of beauty--not the one our culture programs us to appreciate," Nimoy says...
Take the paintings of one popular artist (preferably, but not necessarily, Pablo Picasso). Juxtapose them with the works of another genius. Compare, contrast and voilà: You have a blockbuster exhibition guaranteed to bring in the crowds. The phenomenal success of the three-city "Matisse Picasso" show in 2002-03 helped inspire the thoughtful "Picasso Ingres" exhibit in Paris last year. Now there's the traveling "Turner, Whistler, Monet" exhibit currently at London's Tate Britain. This is the golden age of spot-the-influence shows. Some museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others...
...interlopers brought along some really cool stuff. Local artisans copied and reinterpreted foreign objects, and wealthy Chinese connoisseurs were entombed with their collections so that they could continue to enjoy them even in the afterlife. Those that have surfaced, writes James C. Y. Watt, who curated the exhibit for its first run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last fall, reveal "a wondrous world born of an ancient civilization and transformed by the acceptance of the many cultures that came into its orbit...
...Among the exhibit's most strikingly bizarre objects is a gilt and silver ewer, which was entombed with Li Xian, a general during the short-lived Northern Zhou dynasty (559-581) in Ningxia. The ewer's shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological...