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Kate beyond time: The Kate Moss Book

By CHARLES TAYLOR | January 8, 2013

Has there ever been a tougher emblem of style and beauty than Kate Moss? The most common thread, through picture after picture, style after style, is an astonishing confidence, an earned confidence. Moss looks like no setting is too posh to ever make her forget what she learned on the way up. Her look isn't regal. It's unshakable. That she's outlasted the moralists is cheering. I'm betting she's the last woman standing.

THE KATE MOSS BOOK | By Kate Moss, Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack | Rizzoli | 368 pages :: $85

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Moral surgery
You know upon meeting Becky Shaw that you're in the presence of a smart, snappy writer. But you picture playwright Gina Gionfriddo as someone more akin to Theresa Rebeck than William Makepeace Thackeray.
Bryan Ferry | Olympia
From the Kate Moss cover pic to the A-list of guest stars to the reunion with original Roxy Music members Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, and Andy Mackay, Olympia screams, "EVENT!"
A bank robber downsizes
There's nothing like an art heist to make journalists spout hyperbole. What else could explain the wild things they've said about Myles J. Connor, the Boston career criminal who by his own account has tiptoed by night through literally dozens of museums?
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Moral surgery
You know upon meeting Becky Shaw that you're in the presence of a smart, snappy writer. But you picture playwright Gina Gionfriddo as someone more akin to Theresa Rebeck than William Makepeace Thackeray.
Bryan Ferry | Olympia
From the Kate Moss cover pic to the A-list of guest stars to the reunion with original Roxy Music members Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, and Andy Mackay, Olympia screams, "EVENT!"
A bank robber downsizes
There's nothing like an art heist to make journalists spout hyperbole. What else could explain the wild things they've said about Myles J. Connor, the Boston career criminal who by his own account has tiptoed by night through literally dozens of museums?
Review: Kovac's ''Comfortable Distance'; Kurt's ''Sex Objects''
In Delia Kovac's painting Semi Self-Portrait As a Ski Mask , the eyes stare out of the cartooned mask doleful and maybe a bit bonkers, while the mouth hole is empty.
A bankrobber downsizes
There's nothing like an art heist to make a journalist spout hyperbole.
This trickle-down stinks
True free-market capitalism has lasted 30 years — barely half as long as its arch-enemy, Soviet communism.
The dashing pirate of Providence
Casey Dorman of Providence was walking to work on the stone wharfs of Rockport, Massachusetts one day this summer when he crossed paths with Johnny Depp, fresh off another box-office conquest as Captain Jack Sparrow in the latest of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
SLIDESHOW: Mario Testino's ''In Your Face'' exhibit at the MFA
October 21, 2012 – February 3, 2013
Not buying the Moss legend
In the January 11 Portland Phoenix, book reviewer Charles Taylor lauds Kate Moss — the notoriously waifish model — as the "most extraordinary photographic muse of our era."
Gorillaz | Plastic Beach
Although this is their first album without an indie-chic producer, the fake band with fake cartoon characters known as Gorillaz stay the course as a very real post-Blur conduit for Damon Albarn's quasi-apocalyptic, '80s-daydreaming, neon-pop habit.
Welsh rarebit
Boston Lyric Opera hasn't had much success lately with either its home-grown or its second-hand products, but its latest import — the Welsh National Opera's 2004 production of Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss's third collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, his favorite librettist — is a charmer.
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