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...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 Cindy Sherman. Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Houston MFA's influential chief photo curator, says she decided to organize...
...local talent is a little less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary...
...lobby of the Chrysler building--is a scene of auto-Oedipal aggression that will stay with me for a long time. Barney reminds you sometimes of a sinister voluptuary. (That's a compliment.) At other times he seems more like a gee-whiz mythomaniac. (That's not.) There are lustrous episodes all through his films, amid stretches of state-of-the-art art boredom and Surrealist touches that remind you that Surrealism can be the last refuge of scoundrels...
...store in St. Louis, Mo., hoped that the city would provide opportunities for their gifted son. Indeed it did. Virtually ever since, Hirschfeld has been drawing in his adopted hometown, and his caricatures of Broadway stars have become synonymous with the style and urbanity of the Big Apple. Two lustrous new books, Hirschfeld's New York and Hirschfeld's Hollywood, have just been published by Abrams. TIME recently visited Hirschfeld, 98, at his Manhattan brownstone...
...also mounted groundbreaking shows that have put Houston on the map as a city where interesting things can get their start. A good deal of what we know about Josef Sudek, the lyrical Czech master, or Joel Sternfeld, the indispensable guide to the American scene in all its lustrous oddity, or Brassai, the celebrated chronicler of Paris at night, we know because of exhibitions that Tucker organized. "What I've always loved to do is to look at what hasn't already been hammered out," she says. "In art history all the major figures have been researched...