Upstairs at Madame Tussauds New York, “above the waxy mugs of Picasso and Sinatra, is a gruesome human body shop of sorts, a grisly place where unmouthed teeth and disembodied heads are strewn across the tables and the floor. It is Madame Tussauds’ repair room, the E.R. for the tallow set: the waxed immortals on display downstairs are brought here for their tuneups after being ravaged by the crowds.”
Tag: 12.09.08
MFA Curator Cornelius C. Vermeule III Dies At 83
“Cornelius C. Vermeule III, who over four decades as curator of classical antiquities at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston built a reputation for astute acquisitions, prodigious scholarship and exuberant eccentricity (his office had a working model of Cyprus’s national railroad), died on Nov. 27 in Cambridge, Mass.”