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NAME: CHER, FORMERLY "THE NOSE" AGE: 52 OCCUPATION: Singer, used to act in movies BEST PUNCH: Held up other performers at an all-star charity concert in New York City by arriving late, explaining, "I couldn't get my sequins and s___ together"; sang only three songs, all seemingly lip-synched...
...heading for hangs in another part of the National Gallery of Art. It is "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868," a magnificent selection of nearly 300 works in every medium, from woodblock prints to lacquerware, from tiny netsuke to eight-fold painted screens, assembled by the American scholar Robert Singer and mostly lent by Japanese institutions. It is replete with objects listed in Japan as "National Treasures" and "Important Cultural Properties," many of which have never been seen outside Japan until now. No Edo show of such range or quality has been attempted in the U.S. before, and this...
...culturally static until then. Japan's ancient imperial capital Kyoto represented the classic division of old Japanese power: court, samurai, priests. It continued to exert a great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants and entrepreneurs, and other commoners too, were...
...with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he turned to painting full time). Gourds, melons, turnips, ears of corn and a shiitake mushroom surround an enormous forked white radish, lying as if in state on a basket. But as Singer points out, an educated 18th century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd of his mourning disciples. You only need to try to imagine a Western equivalent to this--a deposition from...
...jazz enthusiast from England asked if we had any word on Anita O'Day, the singer whose career began in the late 1930s. "She must be in her 70s now, and I wonder if she is still with us. I scan your Milestones, fearing the worst." Not to worry, we told him: O'Day just celebrated her 79th birthday, and she's planning a performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall next July...