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...casting her as Catherine in Proof instantly alters the vectors of David Auburn's Pulitzer prizewinning play. A young woman whose genius father went mad is suspected of inheriting not his gift but his curse. The actresses who played her on Broadway--Mary-Louise Parker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anne Heche--radiate an otherworldly, almost Martian eccentricity. The question with them was, How can you believe Catherine when she says she wrote a pioneering mathematical equation? With Paltrow the question is, How can you not? Her reading doesn't subvert the play's problem; it's just a more elegant...
...know what the milk will be like after this." A SPOKESWOMAN for the Russian Federal Drugs Control Service, on its gift of 40 tons of confiscated marijuana to a herd of hungry cows after their normal feed crops were destroyed by agents looking for drugs Sources: Los Angeles Times; New York Times; A.P.; Financial Times; Washington Post; Reuters
...Working from eyewitness accounts and drawings, Stevenson constructed a full-scale replica from new castings of original torpedo-shaped fuel tanks, and a World War II parachute purchased on eBay. Tied together with hemp rope and bamboo, The Gift, as the sculpture is called, forms the oddly beautiful center of an exhibition around which the artist has placed other "relics" from the voyage, including maps meticulously hand-painted by Stevenson. Starting off in Sydney last May, "Argonauts of the Timor Sea" traveled to the U.K. in November, where the artist recruited a band of local Sea Scouts to (unsuccessfully) sail...
...Berlin in 2002, recognized in Fairweather some of his own ambivalence about the art world. (Stevenson's 2000 show, "Call Me Immendorff," skewered the champagne lifestyle of the German painter who visited Auckland in 1987.) Before his project was finished, some wealthy German patrons offered to purchase The Gift. Stevenson began to see another parallel with Fairweather, whose raft was divided up and used by Roti Islanders as household utensils. "I was interested in the crossover (with) the situation being offered to me by this group of collectors," he recalls...
...Stevenson's resolution was novel. In May, the artist staged an elaborate ceremony at NAK, where The Gift was dismantled and sawn into portions for the two dozen collectors, called Twodo. The bizarre event, presided over by an anthropologist from Cambridge and mimicking the gifting rituals of islands like Roti, brought Stevenson even closer to his subject. Ultimately he saw Fairweather, who was forced to dig ditches in Devon after being deported from Roti, as "a very exemplary case history" of the struggling artist who must barter to survive...