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London's Tate Modern expects huge crowds for "Warhol," which opened early this month and runs until April 1. "There's something about his work that's so contemporary," says curator Donna De Salvo. Since Warhol, no one can be naive about the way the media shape our view of the world. This wasn't his stated aim - he didn't have one. His manifesto was to have no manifesto. In his words: "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There...
From 1960 Warhol made paintings by enlarging the drawings found in small ads for water heaters, TVs - or, in Before and After (1961), nose reshaping. The canvas shows how American society is caught between innovation and conformity, says De Salvo: "You see one nose and then you see this very refined, curt nose that has a kind of anonymous quality. He uses one image as a metaphor for an entire culture." Warhol had his own conk altered a few years earlier on his journey from a Czechoslovak immigrant background in Pittsburgh to fashionable circles in New York...
...used a film still from nearly 10 years before. The flat silk-screen technique crookedly applies green eyeshadow and scarlet lipstick, like a magazine illustration of this season's makeup trends. Warhol's paintings "have the color of a shiny new car in the '50s and '60s," says De Salvo, the kind "used by advertisers to attract people to their products, [that have] an almost mesmerizing effect...
...testosterone talk from the White House may be grist to the mill of President Bush's domestic popularity, but it's getting U.S. allies abroad a little nervous. But despite anxious calls to Washington for clarification after the State of the Union address, President Bush delivered a further salvo during an address on Thursday: "People say, what does (the "evil axis" warning) mean? It means they better get their house in order, is what it means. It means they better respect the rule of law. It means they better not try to terrorize America and our friends and allies...
...Mart was not amused by Hood's report, but Conaway showed some bravado in the face of the onslaught: he refused to interrupt his vacation to respond to Hood's salvo. Said K Mart spokeswoman Lori McTavish: "We're confident we have enough resources and enough lines of credit to get through. We're implementing a major change in the company's operations and culture." Other analysts were surprised only by the reaction to Hood's report, which recommended that investors sell the stock. They did, driving it to a 30-year low of $3.89 before it recovered. "This report...