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MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... Trashing Modern Art London's Tate Britain art gallery admitted that a cleaning woman threw out one of its exhibits, thinking it was trash. That was understandable, since the artwork in question was a transparent garbage bag filled with waste paper and cardboard - part of an installation by artist Gustav Metzger...
...Tate & Lyle is on a sugar rush. After just four years in stores, the British firm's no-calorie sweetener sucralose (brand name Splenda) accounts for 43% of U.S. retail sugar-substitute sales (excluding Wal-Mart). That beats Equal and Sweet'n Low, according to market researcher Information Resources. In a deal with Tate, McNeil Nutritionals, a Johnson & Johnson division, is rolling out a sugar-Splenda blend for baking in August. Splenda, already used in thousands of manufactured foods (one appeal: it withstands heat better than alternatives do), is also going into new mid-calorie sodas from Coca-Cola...
...Young British Artists could see post-blaze scarcity and notoriety increase demand for their surviving works. Possible winners (and losers): Patrick Heron The late artist, whose acclaimed modern paintings anticipated Britart, lost about 50 pieces. Scarcity might mean remaining works, like Azalea Garden (1956), which shows at London's Tate Britain this week, will appreciate. Tracey Emin Although two of Emin's most iconic installations burned, including Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995), experts see no potential impact on the value of her other works, nor on her already fiery rep. Damien Hirst At first thought to have perished...
...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? Not on your life. Walk into the Hopper show opening this week at London's Tate Modern and the real thing hits you, a powerful and astonishingly new experience. Here are the well-known images - most of them larger than you expect. Nighthawks has a room almost to itself. Details like the salt shakers on the counter pop out at you; the window frame is vivid...
Cairnie has covered the walls of his small shop with photographs of some of his more celebrated patrons--Robert E. Bly '50, Allen Ginsberg, James Tate and Robert T.S. Lowell...