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ROME – Rome’s Borghese Gallery is BC AT CGC – The long-awaited opening of Disneyland’s Avengers
known for exhibiting a spectacular collec- Campus has finally arrived. Disney has taken the love of Marvel films and
tion of classical Roman sculpture, brought it to life by releasing a massive theme park with themed rides,
Renaissance paintings and priceless works performers, and much more, including collectibles. Items to snap up
by Italian sculptors Gian Lorenzo Bernini include two new Pop Vinyls from
and Antonio Canova. In an exhibit titled Funko with Iron Man and Spider-Man;
Archaeology Now, the Borghese pres- a huge assortment of apparel, gear, and
ents modern works by provocative collectibles for Spidey fans – including
British artist Damien Hirst intermin- replica web-shooters and goggles; and a
gled with the ancient masterpieces light-up Nano Infinity Gauntlet that
throughout the entire museum. In the Damien Hirst, Neptune, 2011 will hold your favorite 20oz beverage.
entrance hall, a coral-covered bronze of a Lapis lazuli and white agate
headless female diver points towards
Mariano Rossi’s ornate ceiling, a step away from five bronze Disney AFD – Jersey City Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Centre Pompidou in
characters similarly depicted as if recently found on the seabed. Paris, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced an international
Elsewhere, Canova’s reclining Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus partnership initiating the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City Museum
Victrix is flanked by two sets of Hirst’s Grecian nudes in bronze and in project – the Centre Pompidou’s first and only North American
pink marble. The website for the Borghese did not list a closing date partnership exclusively selected with Jersey City. This unique
for the exhibition. cultural cooperation between
France and the United States
aims to reinvent, develop, and
HYPEBEAST – Style maven and for- activate Jersey City’s iconic
mer rap artist A$AP Rocky has shifted Pathside Building. The Centre
his focus from the latest trends with Pompidou will provide its
big names to all things vintage. It’s a expertise to create an ambitious
new field for Rocky, and one that he’s program emphasizing educa-
learning to nurture. But with over a tion via hands-on artistic and cultural experiences, with a community
decade to cultivate his taste, it’s easy for component central to Jersey City’s vision for the future, making
him to figure out what he does—and the Centre Pompidou × Jersey City a promising multidisciplinary art
definitely does not—like. When asked laboratory for cultural and educational programming.
what got him into vintage clothes,
Rocky stated, “Nostalgia has a lot to borrow from. There’s prior
trends, and you’ve gotta thrift older clothes, [and with that] there’s HOUSTON, TX – One of the largest crochet works done to date by
exclusivity which got me into older clothes. It’s like, if I find this the renowned Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto will be on display at the
piece nobody else is going to have it, that’s what the thrill is.” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, through September 26, 2021.
SunForceOceanLife will be suspended from the soaring ceiling of Cullinan
Hall of the Caroline Weiss Law
WASHINGTON POST – The historic mansion in Arlington National Building. SunForceOceanLife
Cemetery reopened after a renovation that has recaptured the glory of forms a monumental labyrinth
the house, along with clues to the secret lives of the enslaved Black people of brightly colored pathways
who were the main occupants of the land where it stood. Four bottles defined by intricately crocheted
were found buried together in a pit near the fireplace in the quarters netting. Reaching a height of 12
of the enslaved maid servant. Part of the dirt floor had been excavated, feet in the air, the nearly 30 feet
and the bottles, each one different, had x 79 feet x 55 feet structure
been placed side by side, all pointing presents pathways that spiral
north, toward freedom. A bone frag- outwards from the center of
ment from a goat or a sheep had been the gallery to create an interactive, multi-sensory sculptural interven-
placed inside one. The discovery is tion for visitors to explore.
rare and the first of its kind at
Arlington. More than 100 Black
people lived at Arlington over the years, NYT – A sculptural representation of a bookworm—140 feet of
while about a dozen White people did. scripts and songbooks, twisted along a steel skeleton—corkscrews
The “witching bottles,” which are still being studied are not yet on across the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan. It starts with ancient Greek
display and are thought to have been placed there in the 1850s. texts and, 2,400 volumes later, spills into a pile that includes Summer: The
Donna Summer Musical. The shop had brushes with death caused by
everything from ecommerce to fire and flood before encountering a 2018
THE ATHLETIC – A sports memorabilia sector has taken off: used rent hike it could not withstand. This beloved institution, where students,
tickets. Tickets from Kobe Bryant’s debut game artists, and scholars could browse memoirs and bone up for auditions,
on Nov. 13, 1996, and his 60-point final home was in danger of closing. Then came an unexpected rescue. Four
game on April 13, 2016, sold in recent weeks for men enriched by Hamilton—
tens of thousands of dollars at Goldin Auctions (a the musical’s creator, Lin-Manuel
used ticket to his last game topped $40,000). Miranda; director, Thomas Kail;
Paper tickets are growing scarce, and the NFL lead producer, Jeffrey Seller;
just committed to an all-mobile ticketing and theater owner, James L.
process for this season. Online, however, there is Nederlander—bought the store from
a community that has sprung up to swap and its longtime owners. When Kail
trade information about used tickets. The highest price garnered for a teamed with Miranda years ago, the
ticket is around $100,000 for a stub from the 1903 World Series. two worked on In the Heights there.

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