Word: flemish
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...Whether by destiny or chance, Delvoye's controversial art seems perfectly aligned with Europe's current indigestion over what it ingests. He was born in rural Flanders where there are more pigs than people, and he says he has always felt a pull to the "agrarian tradition" in Flemish art. His studio walls bear ironic witness to that: photographs that seem to depict delicate inlaid marble floors are actually intarsia of processed meat, pork parquettes fashioned from deep scarlet salamis and delicate pink bolognas and hams. One previous succés de scandale was to tattoo live pigs with...
...Fear not, Thresky; rest assured, you are our most beloved Bird-- We shall guard you from those Poonsters; cease your weeping, we implore! Shed no feather as a token of the cruel things they have spoken, Leave their solitude unbroken!--Stay with us forevermore! Leave their sad mock-Flemish castle to their new-made impostor! "You're safe," we murmured, "forevermore...
...semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, occupies a special niche on the campus extracurricular scene. For most of the year, the Lampoon's editors remain within the walls of what they like to believe is an impenetrable mock-Flemish castle. And then, once or twice every semester, they venture forth to distribute an issue of the magazine, or perhaps a Crimson parody. Their work done, they recede silently back into the shrouded depths of the castle...
Smoke began to waft from the Lampoon castle at 44 Bow St. shortly before noon yesterday, and within minutes four Cambridge fire trucks had rushed to the mock-Flemish home of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...campus. (The original museum was located on the current site of Canaday Hall.) Most notable is the museum's eloquent collection of Ingres paintings, its post-Impressionist holdings (including a gorgeous Gaugin and a Van Gogh self-portrait), and its well-rounded representation of seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish painting (including a Rembrandt.) Other exhibitions worth noting: "The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection," (a stunning collection of masks from Western and Central Africa), "Sublimation: Art and Sensuality I the 19th century" (most importantly two Gustave Moreau canvases), "America: Art After 1950" (including a Frank Stella...