To anyone who thinks of reggae as a laid-back relic of the 1970's, Sunday's concert might be a surprise.
But it's the lesser-known pictures that really stand out, notably a pair of surreal self-portraits, in which Iturbide holds birds over her eyes, and still-lifes of Frida Kahlo's recently rediscovered prosthetic leg and back brace — relics that the artist treats with the reverent reserve of a true believer.
Whatever forms of matter and whatever laws and forces held sway Back Then — relics not seen in this part of space since the universe cooled 14 billion years ago — will spring fleetingly to life, over and over again in all their possible variations, as if the universe were enacting its own version of the "Groundhog Day" movie.
On his first diplomatic mission, to Constantinople (1238), he brought back the relic revered as Christ's crown of thorns, for which Louis built Sainte-Chapelle at Paris as a repository.
He wore a British motorcycle jacket with "Hogancamp" painted on the back, a relic from his homeless-shelter days, along with black pants and "man shoes," but underneath he had on a pair of silver-seamed stockings and, in his knapsack, he carried his lucky shoes, the patent leather pumps.
Standing in front of mounds of refuse and a temple-like ruin that looks like a back-lot relic, the Andromedan tells of a people who, much like a few of the wiser inhabitants of Krypton, looked to space as a refuge from a doomed planet.
"Since the attempts to halt the auction or even bring the relics back by legal means or persuasion had failed, we had to resort to commercial means".
Parts of Libya's cultural heritage have been threatened before: in the 1950s, two British soldiers stationed in the country when it was a British protectorate took a selection of ancient relics back to the UK.
While archbishop, he travelled to Rome and brought back saint's relics.
Pilgrims could come long distances: in the 1920s Canadians began to journey to Vimy and Australians began visiting Gallipoli from 1925 onwards, bringing back military souvenirs relics.
