'He's the ultimate manifestation of the myth of the promiscuous photographer,' says Charlotte Cotton, a curator at the Photographer's Gallery in London, 'and his fashion work to date has played around with that myth and, in the process, had a real pertinence in an industry that tends to be conservative and anodyne.
With austerity forcing many into poverty, this tale has a particular pertinence.
But these animals' lives, and deaths, take on a new pertinence today.
There's a political pertinence, mind you, in light of California's Proposition 8 laws on gay marriage.
But the fantasy of traveling into outer-space blackness to find other, friendlier future worlds, had a specific pertinence to black nationalist thinking at the time.
Of the three, Courbet's art may be the strangest of all, and in a time when seemingly old-fashioned representational painting is thriving, his work has a striking pertinence.
One is left with a pleasant feeling of skew-symmetry: although Tommy long ago lost any cultural relevance it may have for teenagers, tonight, at least, it had a profound pertinence to one particular group of them.
Indeed, there's a fresh pertinence to the play's portrayal of characters trying to make sense of their crowded existences in the face of a wrenching tragedy and discovering, as one of them says, that she has never really had a personal life.
Originally released as a benefit single for Aids research, the song's lyrics carry an unintentional pertinence for the protesters threatening to use the festival to highlight the band's alleged tax avoidance.
