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When the Barker Center for the Humanities was opened in 1997, it contained no solo portraits of women—despite the fact that the building is a center for several humanities departments where women have made their mark. The only woman who was depicted on the new building’s walls was the wife of the building’s namesake, who appeared in a portait with her husband...
...she’d be in front of an audience of 3,700 with a 60-piece orchestra playing the strains of the “Nutcracker Suite.” Today, she will tread the boards to take in the entire 4,800 square feet of performance space solo...
...giant, swirling, phantasmagorical canvases starring a cartoon imp named Mr. DOB, Murakami has long been Japan's hottest contemporary artist and an international art-world phenomenon. In the past two years alone, the 41-year-old painter had racked up a career's worth of milestones, including solo shows at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. But then Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs asked Murakami to apply his loopy, bright, Hello-Kitty-on-ketamine look to a line...
...time authors and acquired a fifth member - author and punk rocker Riccardo Pedrini - and recently produced 54, a "screwball comedy" novel set in 1954 featuring Cary Grant and Yugoslavia's Josep Broz Tito. In the works is a historical fantasy about 19th century America. And several members are writing solo novels under the names Wu Ming 1 (Bui) through Wu Ming 5 (Pedrini). But what about the utopian vision, the leftist imagination, the quirky tactics that first brought the group together? "We still like pranks," says Bui. "Now we insert them into our novels." With success, fame may be playing...
...best shot. Her requirements are simple: "Must play BASS or GUITAR (Really Play) and look like a Goddess." Oh, and "NO BOYS." (It's getting so you can almost smell a reality show about to happen, isn't it?) The band will tour in support of Love's new solo album, America's Sweetheart, which is due out this fall. Love shows a certain savviness in drawing on the pool of musicians who aren't personally acquainted with her, since she has been known to get in fights backstage and bare her breasts onstage. If that's not a problem...