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With few exceptions, nearly every individual work of art in “A Studio of Her Own” is remarkable. Of special note is Anna Vaughn Hyatt’s statue, Young Diana, depicting the goddess balanced delicately upon the backs of three large fish, her bow and arrow pointed towards Zeus. Hyatt’s attention to detail is remarkable, and the fish appear so real that they might jump back into the sea. Also moving is Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides...
...counting), is coming out with a new book, The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963 (Simon & Schuster; 304 pages; $32), a collection of photographs that will center on Jackie, who, as the crowds that visited the recent exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum show, has assumed goddess stature. Jackie's White House years are also the subject of Barbara Leaming's new biography, Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (Free Press; 368 pages; $25), which draws on personal letters, Secret Service records and other recently declassified documents to tell the story of the Kennedys' troubled...
Mmmmmhmmmm, just what the doctor ordered: lesbian-transsexual folk-rock from the goddess Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe stables. Except…well. Bitch and Animal come across occasionally as ukelele-brandishing, homosexual takes on Blink-182, with songs about “The Best Cock on the Block,” a moving tribute to the wonders of dildos, and “Sparkly Queen Areola;” the songs are, according to the liner notes, “mainly ramblings on our cereal box of life, the sparkly sparkly pussy.” Only instead...
...Before the fleet set off, the men would visit the Jinghai Temple in Taicang to pray to the Taoist goddess known as Tianfei for protection at sea. Spiritually fortified, they boarded their ships, which would head down the Liu Creek to the Yangtze River and eventually into the open seas. With Tianfei's blessing, Zheng He and his men spent two years at sea, landing at present-day Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and, eventually, India. Over the next 28 years, Zheng He's flotilla embarked on six other grand voyages. It was an unprecedented massing of naval power. The ships...
...years old, it was developed by warriors of the Cheras kingdom in Kerala. Training followed strict rituals and guidelines. The entrance to the 14 m-by-7 m arena, or kalari, faced east and had a bare earth floor. Fighters took Shiva and Shakti, the god and goddess of power, as their deities. From unarmed kicks and punches, kalarippayat warriors would graduate to sticks, swords, spears and daggers and study the marmas - the 107 vital spots on the human body where a blow can kill. Training was conducted in secret, the lethal warriors unleashed as a surprise weapon against...