12/15/2005
Mapplethorpe Arrives in Havana, Mona Lisa Smiles
Nearly 17 years after his death, a "new tolerance" gives Robert Mapplethorpe his first exhibition in Havana. His roughest S&M images were not included.
"Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon (above), one of Cuba's highest ranking officials, agreed. He said Mapplethorpe 'achieves the transmission of a purely artistic message and sense.'"
And scientists in the Netherlands have used emotion-recognition software on the Mona Lisa to determine what she is actually feeling. What they found: "Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry." I'm glad that's solved but I think we'd all prefer to bring our own interpretation.
The software examines key features and assigns each a score with respect to six different emotions.
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