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Currin isn't the first artist to work at the intersection of art and trash. The kitsch shenanigans of Jeff Koons have been a major inspiration for him, and so has the later work of Francis Picabia--those painstaking oils from the 1940s that Picabia copied from naughty photographs. But in the mid-'90s Currin began to introduce old master borrowings into his work, at first conflating them with soft, pillowy porn, then working them into more conventionally scaled nudes and lately scattering them into satires of life among the well dressed and well fed. His art-history references come...
...DIED. JEFF BROWN, 77, author of the children's-book series Flat Stanley; of a heart attack; in New York City. Inspired by a bedtime conversation he had with his two sons, the books tell of a boy named Stanley who is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board and has adventures like visiting his friends by traveling in an envelope...
Arranging such trips isn't as effortless as it sounds. Jeff Ng, 28, is the designated ringleader for his annual male-bonding--snowboarding expedition to South America. "It's eight times the coordination of a regular trip," he says. "I'm the one who e-mails the invites, finds a flight with eight open seats and then gets everyone to pay me back for reservations made on my credit card. It's easier with the Internet, but it's still a pain." So many groups book their tickets online that travel websites have begun to catch on. Orbitz now allows...
...some mellow, acoustic Christmas songs released on the band’s fan singles, as well as “Last Kiss,” reportedly the band’s biggest single ever. In the tradition of such albums, there are also some interesting missteps—bassist Jeff Ament’s odd-ball rap song “Sweet Lew” is probably the weirdest track on the album. In the end, the album does most of the work of a Best Of, reprising the different stages of the band’s career and showcasing...
...from No. 5 Minnesota. In his second match, he decisioned the Golden Gophers’ No. 17 Tommy Owen 6-3, before succumbing to Michigan’s No. 13 Clark Forward. After winning two more matches, Meltzer was slated to face Ohio State’s No. 7 Jeff Ratliff, but his opponent never showed, giving Meltzer an automatic fifth place finish and a 5-1 record for the weekend...