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...bread and butter of the art world. Which brings us to the major Dali retrospective that opens this week at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's another step forward in what you might call the late Dali rehab project. Five years ago a show organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public...
...just not there. A typical NHL game attracts roughly 16,500 spectators, who each pay about $47. In Europe, the average game attendance is around 5,000 and tickets are between $5 and $25 apiece, depending on the country. Do the math. Indeed, the International Ice Hockey Federation in Zurich has already warned clubs against overspending. "Many clubs are treating this extraordinary situation as if there was no tomorrow," says spokesman Szymon Szemberg. "It's like pennies from heaven. Nobody can really blame you for stuffing your pockets, but you shouldn't adjust your lifestyle according to this." Szemberg says...
...indeed come back to air travel." Other airlines haven't yet gone quite so far, but British Airways will next month open a spa for its top-end customers at JFK, and SwissAir will copy Lufthansa's all-business-class flights with a new route from Newark to Zurich...
...Dada is useless," proclaimed the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara in 1922, when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted...
...mark the Dada revival, the Cabaret has launched the Gugusdada contest; it will award $8,300 to the first parents who dare name their newborn "Dada." To be eligible for the prize the baby must be born next February, the month the movement was founded. Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, Zurich Exhibition hours: Tues.-Sat. 1 p.m-7 p.m., Sun 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Coffee shop hours: daily except Mondays...