GEORGE W.
BUSH STAMPED "IDIOT KING" FIRST-CLASS FOREVER
As the U.S. Post Office raises stamp prices, the official
USPS Forever Stamp may be selling out, but it will never be as memorable as the
George W. Bush 'Idiot King' stamp from Houston artist David Krueger.
David Krueger: Idiot King [detail], 2001
Photo courtesy of
CUE Art Foundation
also:
ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ: MYTH,
MUSCLE, BUT THE WRONG MUSIC
Half-men, half-horses flex their muscular bodies to
produce startling sculptural effects in Centaures but even
near-nakedness won't distract an audience from the torture of the music in the
Frenchman's new work,Eldorado
.
plus:
ONE
ERUPTION, 500 TALES
Some 500 works of art and
artifacts tell the stories of the final days of Pompeii and the nearby resort
cities of Herculaneum, Oplontis and Terzigno following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79
AD..
and:
COMMERCIALIZING RACE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
AND MEDICINE
Do medical and commercial products targeted by race re-energize the idea of
race as a biological category just when scientists thought they had laid it to
rest? MIT research scientist and physician Dr. David S. Jones weighs in on the
controversy.
