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...fact that the U.S. has become soccer's WalMart: Howard's $4.1 million transfer fee was tiny compared with the $52.5 million paid out to Leeds in 2002 for defender Rio Ferdinand, now with Man U but suspended for eight months for missing a drug test. The only real unknown for United was how Howard would handle his immersion into the icy, treacherous waters of European soccer. At the moment, he's gasping for breath. Its defense in a shambles since Ferdinand's suspension, Man U is going through its worst spell in nearly a decade. Two weeks...
...Love. This soul mate of Allegory of Spring is from a private collection in London, and hasn't been shown publicly since 1949. The portraits section features Botticelli's famous Portrait of Man with Medal of Cosimo the Elder and his Profile of a Young Woman, a virtually unknown work from a private collection in New York. It also boasts Filippino's naturalistic Portrait of a Musician, an intense and pensive study of an instrumentalist surrounded by the paraphernalia of his art. One of the most interesting sections of the exhibition examines the influence on the artists of Savonarola...
Maps are practically obsolete. For explorers, maps came in handy for charting a course through unknown lands and letting the traveler know where he was along the way. The map was a decoding device, a conceptual bridge that matched the mental “Where am I?” to the specific attributes of a physical landscape. It was also a way of creating a personal record of a journey—memory inscribed in rivers and mountain ranges. But these days, maps are pass?...
...south Moroccan tribal traditions from Hadra de Femmes de Taroudant. Jon Pareles of The New York Times calls the show “A festival of believers, but not for believers alone.” Many of the acts are considered masters of their art but are relatively unknown in the West. Monday will be the festival’s Boston area premiere. Tickets $35, $30, $25. 7:30 p.m. Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy Street...
...with a theory first postulated by Albert Einstein and then ignored for the last hundred years, they eventually concluded that a mere five percent of the universe’s matter is composed of the kind of atoms we know and love. The rest, they found, is an amorphous unknown they termed “dark energy.” This was the kind of discovery that raised questions rather than answering them...