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...next afternoon, guests gathered at the MoCA forecourt in People's Park, where Ferruccio Ferragamo, Salvatore's eldest son and the company's CEO, launched an retrospective exhibition that consisted mostly of shoes and handbags, some of which had been worn by Taylor, Monroe and Mary Pickford. He was flanked by movie stars Tony Leung (In The Mood For Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha), whose presence drew hordes of passersby to gawk from just outside the VIP enclosure, holding phones aloft in an attempt to capture a grainy souvenir. Ferruccio talked about...
...Jeff, I loved the Puppy." From a few words, John Kaldor's contemporary art dreams can loom large. Such was the case, in 1995, when the Australian art patron invited American Jeff Koons to rebuild his 12-m-high topiary terrier in the forecourt of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. At a time when cutting-edge art was still frowned on in Australia, Puppy-which required audiences to do little more than stop and smile and smell the flowers-was a palatable panacea. Later purchased by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Koons' Postmodernist sculpture would become a global...
...very shy about it. But on this occasion, I couldn't help myself. I said, "oh, that's my mother." And she looked out of the window and she said, "but it can't be. Sylvia Plath committed suicide and your mother is walking across the forecourt with your father." [My father and stepmother] had just dropped me off. And I remember sitting on the bed, so shocked. I didn't really believe...
...Somalis fear that when the Ethiopians kicked out the Islamic Courts, they threw out any hope of security too. The new government counts several warlords in its ranks, and their rivals are rearming. I visited one, Mohamed Qanyere, at a villa on the southern outskirts of Mogadishu. In the forecourt were parked a collection of artillery and pickups mounted with heavy-caliber machine guns. Qanyere claimed to have 1,500 men. Asked about a government decree ordering national disarmament, he scoffed, "If you have two people and you take a weapon from one and I keep mine, what will happen...
...Outdoor Life Across the road from the gas station forecourt, an Aboriginal family have made their home beneath a slender tree; friends and relatives come and go. "The grass keeps the wind off," explains father Leslie Robbor (standing, with back to the camera). On weekday mornings, his son Darren and daughters Brenda and Jasmine scrub up in the ablution block and go into the roadhouse, where manager Jones gives them breakfast and correspondence lessons sent from the Aboriginal community at Kalkarinji, 170 km to the south. If the kids are good, they get to cool off afterward in the roadhouse...