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What a long, long way she has traveled. The last time I saw Jessy, now 42, was a month ago at the opening of an exhibit at the Margaret Bodell Gallery in New York City. On display was a series of 10 unusual architectural paintings. The lines and angles of each facade were rendered with photographic accuracy; the colors, on the other hand, were blithely surreal. The artist: Jessy Park...
...race. "Genuine Hatha yoga is a balance of trying and relaxing," says Dr. Timothy McCall, an internist and the author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian endeavor than a Spartan one. You don't win by punishing your body. You convince it, seduce it, talk it down from the ledge of ambition and anxiety. Yoga...
...looked like they'd just ducked out of a board meeting for an hour, and sweatshirt-clad women with babies strapped to their chests. There were women who'd brought sheepish-looking boyfriends and women who'd arrived with their mothers. It was, I decided, a pretty impressive display of sisterhood. And everybody there was waiting, unashamed, to meet and applaud Bridget Jones's creator...
...from cabinets to hunting decoys. About a hundred and twenty years ago, the founders of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) would have laughed at the idea of curating something so banal as what could be made by an amateur in the home, whose creation was intended not for display but for utility. The MFA, founded as a institution for the cultural elite, focused its early collection on ancient Egypt and the Middle East, Greece and Rome. Art was strictly European and American painting. Folk Art trickled into the MFA when it became an increasingly significant feature of the American...
...this is the first time the MFA has ever exposed its vast holdings of creative Americana to the public in one tremendous display of pamphlets, audio tours and Merrill Lynch sponsorship. Today, in the eyes of MFA’s curatorial staff, art is and can be anything...