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...what of Dali's own clockwork? What wound him up? This is the theme of "Salvador Dali: The Early Years," an exhibition opening this week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The curators, Ana Beristain and Dawn Ades, have brought together a mass of Dali's juvenilia, starting at age 12; the show ends in 1929, with Dali in Paris, moving through storms of controversy, the 25-year-old darling of both Left and Right Banks. By rights this show ought to contain the "classics" of Dali's early achievement -- paintings from 1929 like The Lugubrious Game...
...noise is the least of it. It turns out that America's 89 million small garden engines are fouling the very land they tend. Gas-guzzling lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed cutters and the like produce 5% of U.S. air pollution overall, and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas. A dirty, inefficient 3.5-hp. gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection...
...back in a New York Times interview, "I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear." But Jackie was really not just a clotheshorse. She applied the same sense of style to herself as she did to the White House. Says Richard Martin, associate curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute: "Her style was not vanity but a way of living, not simply adorning herself but expressing her vision of beauty in the world." The museum's collections contain couture clothing from Onassis, all of it donated anonymously...
...City 10 years ago. It was a bust because so many of De Kooning's key paintings from the '40s and '50s were not lent. The show titled "Willem de Kooning Paintings," which opened this month at the National Gallery in Washington -- it will go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in October, and later to the Tate Gallery in London -- is not a real retrospective either. It leaves out both the worst of De Kooning, his sculpture, and some of the best, his drawings. But it does have quite a few of the paintings that were missing...
...recent decision by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to uphold its long-standing ban of trucks on Memorial Drive could end any hope for keeping the Stop & Shop grocery store in Cambridge...