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Museum breaks new ground in bold‘Body Art’ show
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embroidered their bodies with ink
In a sexy leap away from dinosaurs instead. Their swirling decorations
and rocks, the American Museum are as beautiful as the finest
o f Natural History has taken on a kimonos.
The Americans and Europeans who
bold new topic _ body art.
“This is the most comprehensive were interviewed tended to tattoo
the m useum s a n th ro p o lo g y
show on this topic ever presented th em selv es for very personal division and the show ’s curator,
by a major cultural institution,” said reasons. In addition to the traditional said it was hard to put all the
E llen F u tte r, the m u se u m ’s “Mom” motif, one man was adorned disparate displays together as a
president. “T here is no known with an image o f his child. For who,e
culture in which people do not paint, many others, body piercing and
pierce, tattoo, reshape or simply tattooing is simply fashion.
“I actually couldn’t care less what
adorn their bodies.”
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understatem ent for “Body Art: moment, the spirit o f the moment,”
Marks o f Identity,” which includes said D utch tattoo artist Henk
over 600 objects dating from 3,000 Schiffmascher, better known as
Hanky Panky.
B.C. to the present.
It covers everything from photos o f Greek and Egyptian artifacts reveal
lavishly tattooed_and scantily clad images o f the adorned bodies o f
_ Japanese rickshaw drivers to ancient times, and European bras
videotaped interviews with pierced are displayed nearby tiny shoes for
and tattooed modem Americans, Chinese bound feet, as examples of
from an cien t E g y p tian art to body shaping o f various eras and
Victorian underwear and ethnic cultures.
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Clapton, James Taylor
among rock hall
inductees for 2000
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Rock and blues g u itarist Eric
Clapton will be inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall o f Fame for the
third time on March 6, the rock hall
foundation announced Tuesday.
The class o f 2000 also will include
sin g e r-g u ita rist B onnie R aitt,
singer-songwriter James Taylor,
Earth Wind & Fire, Lovin’ Spoonful
and the d o o -w o p g ro u p the
Moonglows, the New York-based
foundation said.
The inductions _ which will increase
to 162 the number o f individuals
and groups in the rock hall _ will be
in New York City. The permanent
hall o f fame exhibit is in Cleveland.
The rock hall will induct Nat King
Cole and Billie Holiday as early
influences on rock music. Arista
Records President Clive Davis,
whose career began w ith CBS
Records in 1960, will be inducted
in the non-performer category.
The first inductees in a new category
for side-men who performed with
headliners will be saxophonist King
Curtis, bass player James Jamerson,
drummers Hal Blaine and Earl
Palmer, and guitar player Scotty
Moore.
Clapton, who was inducted in 1992
as a member o f the Y ardbirds and in
1993 as a m em ber o f Cream,
released his first solo album in 1970.
His solo hits include “Cocaine” and
“Wonderful Tonight.”
Taylor’s singing hits include “Fire
and R a in ” and the duet
“Mockingbird” with Carly Simon
in 1974. Raitt, a slide guitarist and
sin g e r, a c h iev ed w id esp read
popularity with the 1989 album
“Nick o f Time.”
M u sic ia n s are e lig ib le for
nomination to the hall 25 years after
the release o f their first recording.
A committee o f rock historians
selects nominees, and about 1,000
rock experts vote for induction.
Those with the most votes, with a
minimum o f 50 percent o f the vote,
are inducted, generally five to seven
yearly.
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