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...think retailers haven't noticed. Catering to customers' musical tastes, retailers from Au Bon Pain to Pottery Barn to Polo Ralph Lauren are putting out their own CDs and cassettes. Starbucks' Blending the Blues sold some 50,000 CDs in two months, and five classical recordings for Victoria's Secret have sold more than 1 million copies each. The big buyers are baby boomers turned off by music stores. Maybe Virgin and Tower ought to offer cafe lattes and lingerie...
...living on the margins of society ever had a portraitist, it was Diane Arbus. The New York-born photographer produced some of the most memorable portraits ever made before her suicide in 1971, and the best have been gathered for a major retrospective of her work at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (www.vam.ac.uk), showing between now and next January. Her most iconic images are present...
...margins of society ever had a portraitist, it was Diane Arbus. The New York City-born photographer produced some of the most memorable portraits ever made before her suicide in 1971, and the best have been gathered for a major retrospective of her work at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (www.vam.ac.uk), showing between now and next January. Her most iconic images are present: the giant stooping under the ceiling Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...preconceptions, but a new show of 19th century paintings delivers more shocks than Tracey Emin. One revelation is embedded in the title - "Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900." The very concept of "black Victorians" may surprise. There had, of course, been Africans in Britain long before Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, but in the 19th century they were a familiar sight - not that you'd know that from most accounts of the old Queen's reign. Yet the show's curator, Jan Marsh, discovered that Victorian art depicted many black subjects - not only servants, but also...
...Victoria B. Ilyinsky ’07 is a romance languages and literatures concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...