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...FRANCISCO — At the Pride 2008 parade, there was one word on everyone’s lips: marriage. Brides of all genders donned wedding dresses ranging in style from fashionably regal to delightfully wacky. Besuited but bare-chested grooms strutted alongside scantily clad dancers. Beaming couples marched with children in tow, holding signs that declared, “Just Married...
...Colossus has always figured as a masterwork among Francisco Goya's chronicle of human suffering during Spain's war of independence (1808-1812). But now Madrid's Prado museum, which long gave it pride of place, has come closer than ever to acknowledging that Goya didn't paint it. At a June 26 press conference, curators announced the museum would continue its inquiry into the work's authenticity after its investigative team identified the initials A. J. in the painting's lower left corner with the Valencian painter Asensio Juliá, a friend and collaborator of Goya. Though reserving final...
...Never more so, perhaps, than when you're dealing with Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, seen by many as a founding figure of modern art, and by most Spaniards as an icon of nationalism and revolutionary politics. Mena speaks from personal experience. When she was asked to write the catalog description for The Colossus for a Prado's exhibition in 1989, she already had doubts, but she knew that the painting was an untouchable part of Goya's oeuvre. "Less was known about Goya then," says Mena, "and what was known was not to be questioned...
Those findings may seem counterintuitive, given that the term "gentrification," particularly in cities like New York and San Francisco, has become synonymous with soaring rents, wealthier neighbors and the dislocation of low-income residents. But overall, the new study suggests, the popular notion of the yuppie invasion is exaggerated. "We're not saying there aren't communities where displacement isn't happening," says Randall Walsh, an associate professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the study's authors. "But in general, across all neighborhoods in the urbanized parts of the U.S., it looks like gentrification...
...Sunday, though, the mood was euphoric. "It's been great fun," said Mather George, an anthropologist from San Francisco. "I missed the dykes on bikes, the naked people and the music, but I guess they'll get there!" There was much back-slapping and an ecstatic sense of accomplishment. "Delhi has come out and spoken about the kind of people we want to be," said Bhan. "This is not just about queer rights, it's about women's rights, about Dalits, about justice for everyone." But the enthusiasm wasn't shared by the passersby, many of whom looked on perplexed...