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Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament' Celebrates Norman Mailer and Ancient Ritual

The Queens artist Matthew Barney has premiered his latest installation since his five-part symbol-heavy film-spree Creamster. The new visual piece, River of Fundament, carries in similar detail, fashion and ritual, celebrating themes of death and decay through Norman Mailer but in a way only the Barney can transcribe.
  • Pablo Picasso's Former Art School to Be Turned into Woody Allen Museum

    A coalition led by Barcelona's Comisiones Obreras trade union movement is fighting to preserve Pablo Picasso's former art school. Owned by the regional government, the building has designs to be turned into a Woody Allen museum.
  • THE PIANO: A MEASURE OF TIME (Part 2), by Elizabeth L. Forrester

    My fingers have difficulty playing my own old recital piece from boarding school. Still, I can belt out the showtunes. My music continued there and kept me in touch with the outside world. I accompanied my schoolmates around the piano -- cranking out hymns on the small chapel organ. At college in Boston, where my love with New England flourished, I found a common bond between north and south in the glee club with portrayals of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's "I'm Called Little Buttercup" from Pinafore and "The Duchess" from Gondoliers.