Note: Starting in the year 2003, our baby
name lists have captured the true popularity
of each
name by combining
names that sound the same but have
multiple spellings (like Aden, Aiden, and Ayden).
The full set
of letters can be rearranged to
spell the
name of a band, and finally a cross number all covering
multiple topics Just a slightly different way to get students to look at revision.
AS THE LAWRENCE WEINER RETROSPECTIVE at the Whitney Museum fades to white under
multiple coats
of Kilz and latex paint, and his various exuberant ephemera take up residence at LA MoCA before wending their way back to their rightful property owners; as Tate Modern and the ICA London emerge from momentary
spells of whispered headlines, random sketching, streams
of consciousness, and face slapping; as New York's New Museum concludes its vestigial assault on the Work
of Art, not to mention the etiquette
of proper spacing, and as visitors to the new building experience the worst case
of buyer's remorse since the reopening
of the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago; as the Metropolitan Museum's Dutch paintings readjust to the staid organizing principles
of artist's
name, date, and genre rather than hanging according to who bought what from whom (on whose advice) and resold it to so - and - so, who then donated it to the Met; and as the scent
of modesty - prosaic, charcoal filtered, crystalline - emanates from the 2008 Whitney Biennial, now is as good a time as any to talk about money.