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...Meanwhile, London's Tate Modern began life in 2000 with its permanent collection also parceled out into themes: "landscape," "nude," "still life" and "history." It elaborated on each idea?history embraced memory and society, for example?to better accommodate the works included under each title. Critics said Tate Modern chose this nontraditional arrangement to cover up the museum's weaknesses, particularly in works from the first half of the 20th century. Curator Frances Morris prefers to accent the positive, saying that the huge spaces in Tate Modern's home, a former power station, presented an opportunity "to explore the strengths...
...lessons of 'ModernStarts' was the pleasure of seeing multiple options emerging more or less simultaneously in early Modernism," says John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture. "But another was the loss of seeing the integrity and the unfolding of individual achievements and artistic movements." As for Tate Modern, it is planning to rehang its entire permanent collection next year in time for the museum's sixth anniversary. In late September, it will provide the first clues as to whether it will stick with the thematic approach or try something more historical...
...Kahlo's self-portraits are now reproduced on boxes, bags and chairs, but she can never be entirely domesticated - her painful images still belong to her, and still have the power to shock, as can be seen at "Frida Kahlo," a retrospective of nearly 90 works at London's Tate Modern until Oct. 9 (tel: [44-20] 7887 8008; www.tate.org.uk). Her work has been labeled socialist, feminist and Surrealist - but she defied every pigeonhole. What is certain is that her life played like a soap opera: at 18 she was horribly injured in a bus crash. In 1929 she married...
...painter Frida Kahlo's self-portraits are now reproduced on boxes, bags and chairs, but she can never be entirely domesticated?her painful images still belong to her, and still have the power to shock. See them at "Frida Kahlo," a retrospective of nearly 90 works at London's Tate Modern until Oct. 9 (tel: [44-20] 7887 8008; www.tate.org.uk). Her work has been labeled socialist, feminist and Surrealist?but she defied every pigeonhole. What is certain is that her life played like a soap opera: at 18 she was horribly injured in a bus crash...
...plus court costs, according to a London jury. The director of Chinatown and The Pianist won a libel case against Vanity Fair for a 2002 story that portrayed him as trying to seduce a Scandinavian model on his way to the 1969 funeral of his wife Sharon Tate, who was murdered by followers of psycho guru Charles Manson. The magazine stood by the story but said that the incident happened a few weeks later than reported...