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Duchamp was the joker in the pack. You can see some of his witty and enigmatic works here, including his famous improved version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (with added moustache and goatee), on loan from the French Communist Party. A theme that runs through the show is the way artistic and social revolutions were born in smoky bars. The Surrealists and Dadaists made each other laugh with assemblages of popular art and everyday artifacts-their productions often look like in-jokes. That's why the R.A. has mounted them in a model of a Paris public urinal...
...Bert mourns. “She told me that the only thing she truly wants to see is her 13-year old daughter graduate from college.” (Can’t she already see it?) Despite her personal trauma, Miss Cleo has “felt da strong calling to help you find dat special person” and launched www.cleodate.com. There’s someone for everyone. Are you that someone? Let Miss Cleo show you the way! Love, power and fortune are waiting...
...bearded Islamic-studies professor is Lashkar-e-Taiba's main ideologue. Born in 1947 during his family's flight from northern India during Partition, Saeed memorized the Koran as a boy. He fought briefly in the Afghan jihad against the U.S.S.R. and in 1986 founded the Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad, a religious education and proselytizing organization. Lashkar spun off two years later, attracting veterans of the Afghan war. It has taken responsibility for many hit-and-run operations in Indian-held Kashmir but says it never targets civilians. Nevertheless, two civilians and one soldier died in its December...
...after Sept. 11 found a new career singing Berlin's "solemn prayer" at ball games. DRod's tenor is just as supple and virile on this CD single, released Dec. 11. Guest emcee Rudy Giuliani reads the verse in impeccable New Yorkese ("While the storm clouds gather far across da...
...however, an assumption that guided the way women were painted in quattrocento Italy. Actually, one feels that this show comes about 35 years late. It should have been done back in the '60s, when the National Gallery bought Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci from Liechtenstein. Leonardo was in his early '20s when he painted this daughter of a rich Florentine banker, circa 1474-78. On the front of the panel you see the familiar face--that pale, egg-smooth, cold teenage mask--a girl soberly dressed in brown, the blue lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues...