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...Once an airline introduces a new uniform, the old ones become collectors' items because they will never come back," says Muskiet. And if people like Jeph Gurecka start calling these items art, it might push the prices up even further. The New York City-based sculptor and performance artist - famed for making artwork from decomposing food - is currently collecting menus from plane crashes. Gurecka calls this grisly labor his "last supper" project. Tasteless or not, most of the collections reveal an innate fascination with travel, invariably rooted in a time when trips seemed more exciting than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly And Buy | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

...addition to experimenting with different musical styles, they also toyed with a few self-consciously hip names, including Mungo Park and The Sunday Clientele, before finally settling on Chester French. The name pays homage to sculptor Daniel Chester French, famous for the Lincoln Memorial and the John Harvard statue. They settled on the name while eating in Annenberg Dining Hall...

Author: By Emily T. Sabo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Almost Famous | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...beautiful chamber became a 10,000-seat concert hall, attracting some of the world's most famous performers, including legendary Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Today, small electric trains carry visitors on a 5-km ride to Postojna's heart; from there the journey is on foot, through what British sculptor Henry Moore described as "nature's most wonderful gallery." Watch out for Proteus anguinus?the "human fish," a colorless, eyeless newtlike creature with legs and gills that's unique to Postojna. A tour of the caves costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subterranean Spectacular | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...curved walls painted brick red, cobalt blue, lemon yellow and gray, Danubiana was built to resemble a Roman galley about to sail into the serene expanse of the Danube. Since it opened in 2000 and Yellow House closed, the museum has hosted some 30 shows featuring artists like Spanish sculptor Mart?n Chirino, Dutch painter Ad Snijders and Slovak painter Peter Poll?g. Coming up are "True Colors," the work of 68 U.S. artists responding to Sept. 11 (April 6 to May 23), and a retrospective of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (May 25 to June 17). Although no longer obsessed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art on the Danube | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...dozens of different ways: unsparing closeup (the aging Degas); in duplicate (Dubuffet, with bowler hat); in triplicate (Norman Rockwell, Jacque Henri Lartigue); or, most popular, nude (Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, Cindy Sherman). Some pose with palettes, others focus on the essence of their art: Henry Moore sketched his strong sculptor's hands. And James Montgomery Flagg used his own face for the famous World War I "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam. The exhibit is only a small excerpt from a massive new book, Me I, by Oneself by curator Pascal Bonafoux and editor-publisher Diane de Selliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital Of Beauty | 3/14/2004 | See Source »

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