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...know every inch of a picture by heart and it can still be a mystery. That is the secret of the Mona Lisa, a portrait so enigmatic that even endless duplication can?t make you sick of it. It?s even truer of Georges Seurat?s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884, a canvas that everyone knows but no one entirely possesses...
...look a little closer: Don’t those names—Seymour Benjamins, Mo Bludfer-Oyle, Mona Polist—sound a bit off? Isn’t there the hint of a grin beneath their solidly plutocratic exteriors? And was that check a symbol...
...cameras turn away, “Seymour Benjamins,” the Billionaires’ “chief operating officer,” is Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03, a veteran of the anti-war and living wage movements at the College. “Mona Polist,” their director of campus outreach, is in fact Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, also a longtime Harvard activist on the left and a Crimson editor. “John McMillions” differs by only a letter or two from the flesh-and-blood John...
...When Julia Roberts dressed the part of the 1950s-era Wellesley professor with circle skirts and big brooches in Mona Lisa Smile, fashion designers took note. Now, along with '50s-style twinsets, nipped-in waists and gloves, they're bringing back the jeweled brooch. And everyone from Chanel to Tiffany to Banana Republic is cashing in on the trend. "Women haven't worn them in such a long time, so it's like the last untouched accessory," says Thomasine Dolan, jewelry-design director at Banana Republic, where bright, glass paste brooches, above, are among the season's best sellers. "Every...
...greatest works of art are inevitably turned into kitsch, their fame exploited to sell the most banal products. Guernica adorns T shirts, the Mona Lisa is woven into welcome mats, Sunflowers brightens up your morning coffee mug. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks has suffered the same fate. Prints of the iconic 1942 painting of a gloomy diner have shown up in several generations of American college dorms - there's even a mouse pad. Has reproduction robbed the image of its morose power and reduced Hopper, one of America's greatest artists, to the ranks of the one-hit wonders...