Monae, with a background singer.
In the midst of all this is a 1930 version of Marcel Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q.," the Mona Lisa with a mustache, on loan from the Pompidou.
Page E7 RAGS AND OLD IRON: A MASTERPIECE Scraps of paper, a bit of newsprint; a cardboard tube and the Mona Lisa with a mustache.
For nearly 500 years, people have been gazing at Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the Mona Lisa with a sense of bafflement.
More famously, he put a urinal in a gallery and called it Fountain; and in 1919, he exhibited a reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee under the title L.H.O.O.Q.
Among her gifts are Duchamp's famed "L.H.O.O.Q.," a reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a mustache and beard in pencil, which has gone to the Norton Simon Museum in Los Angeles, and "Double Negative," one of Michael Heizer's monumental pieces of land art in Nevada, which she has given to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Item: Custom T-shirts at Little Shop of Crafts in Manhattan Retail value: $30 Groupon price: $15 Units sold: 572 Wisecrack: "Drive mere mortals mad with the world's most obscure joke, which science has proven to be Mr. Belvedere's head superimposed on the Mona Lisa with a word balloon proclaiming, 'Everybody say, "YATTA!"'".
Guests can choose two of chef Makani Gerardi's special burgers, including the posh burger with Mycella blue cheese, truffle aioli and sautéed mushrooms, the sweet Mona burger with a strawberry-balsamic compote, or the spicy Wahine burger with wasabi mayo, ginger, Okinawan sweet potato chips, pea shoots and sesame ponzu dressing.
Tar-sands mining is a terrible idea anywhere for all kinds of reasons, but the idea of doing it right next door to some of our greatest national parks, in one of the most spectacular wilderness landscapes of North America, is beyond unacceptable -- like slashing the Mona Lisa with a box cutter.
