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...which color reigns supreme, Jean-Gabriel Causse has taken pigment research to scientific extremes. Causse's Paris-based T-shirt company, Bluebretzel, offers three unisex shapes in "mythic" shades. So if you are obsessed with the raspberry color of Berthillon ice cream (above) or the brown of the Mona Lisa's eyes, he has replicated those colors exactly on fair-trade cotton T shirts with 5% cashmere fibers. Causse, a former advertising executive, has replicated other iconic colors, such as the original rust shade of the Eiffel Tower, the black of Beluga caviar at Caviar Kaspia, the green...
...content to poke fun at their foreign patrons. Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, gained international attention in the 1990s with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though Zhou, 41, is a technically skilled graduate...
...tiny raft, made of fine gold - a model of the ceremony on the lake - is the Mona Lisa of the collection, kept in a darkened chamber. You can only marvel at the genius of the ancient artisans who crafted this and the equally incandescent jewelry, masks, breastplates (pictured), figurines, urns and - my favorites - funky animal sculptures in the museum...
...terms of mainstream student values then, Wellesley today is every bit as much Mona Lisa Smile-puritan as it is secular, Sapphic fantasyland. And there are, of course, numerous students that fall between these two spheres...
DIED. Ray Evans, 92, Oscar-winning songwriter whose collaboration with partner Jay Livingston gave rise to Silver Bells, Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be); in Los Angeles...