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...pride of place, has come closer than ever to acknowledging that Goya didn't paint it. At a June 26 press conference, curators announced the museum would continue its inquiry into the work's authenticity after its investigative team identified the initials A. J. in the painting's lower left corner with the Valencian painter Asensio Juliá, a friend and collaborator of Goya. Though reserving final judgment, the museum had already signaled its doubts earlier this year by excluding The Colossus from its current Goya in Times of War exhibition...
...anything, at a couple of the locations - the ones on the Brooklyn and lower Manhattan waterfronts - The Waterfalls are almost comically thin and humble. This would be in keeping with Eliasson's general practice. Even for a project like this one, in which he's operating within (and undercutting) the Baroque tradition of massively theatrical artworks, the ordinary mechanical workings of his spectacle - the exposed steel framework, the visible spill trays at the top - are deliberately exposed to view. To borrow Frank Stella's phrase, "What you see is what you see." Which, of course, even when Stella said...
...involving gay adoptions, and just last month, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision cited Lawrence in holding for the first time that the military's exclusion of openly gay members must be based on more than simple moral disapproval of homosexuals. That case has been sent back to lower courts for further proceedings, but is already seen as a major challenge to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the U.S. Armed Forces...
...number of one-vote majority opinions was significantly lower this time around (approximately 17% of the cases compared to 33% last term). "What is striking is how many cases were not decided by 5-4 votes," says Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law. "With its new blood the court is still developing new patterns of communication and cooperation." (Until Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito came along, the court had the longest-serving body of the same nine people in Supreme Court history.) Nevertheless, even with fewer nail-biting decisions...
...forcing the 73-year-old P.M. to sneak to work through a back door. On June 27, the veteran politician, who also moonlights as a television chef, suffered the indignity of a parliamentary no-confidence vote; although Samak's six-party coalition, which controls two-thirds of the lower house, shot down the motion by a vote of 280-162, there's no end in sight to Thailand's political crisis. Investors, spooked by the continuing turmoil, have fled the Thai stock market, which has swooned more than 10% since the anti-government protests began in late...