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...spectacular manner in which Queen Nefertiti lived, you would think she would have equally spectacular accommodations in death. She and her Pharaoh husband lived on the breezy east bank of the Nile in a palace stuffed with throne rooms, pools and spacious courtyards. She was both queen and goddess, serving as a high priest at religious ceremonies and standing by her husband at the Window of Appearances. Yet the culture whose pyramids, mummies and dazzling burial chambers set the ancient standards for funerary grandeur appears to have forgotten Nefertiti. The glamorous young queen died more than 3,300 years...
...empire she started from scratch, having been arraigned at Manhattan's federal courthouse on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. She may have been spared the perp walk, but the sight of Martha in such imperfect circumstances was a shock - the only visible touch of the domestic goddess of old being the spotless white umbrella held above her head...
...good women to help her form a new one. To this end, Love has placed ads in newspapers in New York City and Los Angeles inviting all and sundry to take their best shot. Her requirements are simple: "Must play BASS or GUITAR (Really Play) and look like a Goddess." Oh, and "NO BOYS." (It's getting so you can almost smell a reality show about to happen, isn't it?) The band will tour in support of Love's new solo album, America's Sweetheart, which is due out this fall. Love shows a certain savviness in drawing...
...case was argued by conservative Robert Kagan in the book Of Paradise and Power, which has spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and posits a cultural split between Europe and America, with America cast as the Roman god of war Mars and Europe as the goddess of love Venus...
There is still a lot of spadework to do before Americans are as familiar with Hindu goddess figures and Mongol textiles as they are with Impressionist oils. Two weeks ago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts opened the first full survey in the U.S. of the history of Japanese photography. It's a superb show full of work that will mostly be new to Americans, proceeding from lustrous 19th century geisha portraits to the post-Modernist shenanigans of Yasumasa Morimura, who makes heavily stage-managed pictures of himself decked out as Western icons of both sexes--sort of the Japanese...