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...Antonakos selected the four artists (upon whom time has since granted the benediction of fame) because their modes of working were so disparate. Ryman is the consummate painter, whose variations in white paint on all manner of supports are about the empirical discovery of facture. He has said that "there is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint." Artschwager (whose work was exhibited in the Carpenter Center earlier this year) creates objects, often boxes, with no clear function, and painted images based on commercial sources. LeWitt has been an avatar of the conceptual art movement...
...Rookie of the Year award, World Series champion in 1986 with the New York Mets, and National League home run leader two years later with 39, Strawberry was hailed as an excellent hitter. He was once believed to be a future candidate for the Hall of Fame. He was considered a positive force in last year's Yankee clubhouse and was expected to contribute more this year with the retirement of designated hitter Chili Davis...
American opera and the national pastime have two things in common: devoted fans and Cooperstown, N.Y. Located a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band...
...discoverer of species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...
...this woman, and all the others who entered into the bride contest, decide to answer the cattle call? Well, duh. Ka-ching! For money, for 15 minutes of manufactured fame, two complete strangers tie the knot on national television. Any bets on how long that knot will take to unravel...