NYU art students were wowed last week when they got a surprise visit from the glamorous first lady of France. Her foundation runs an exchange between the school and the Sorbonne in Paris, so Carla Bruni-Sarkozy came to check out the art. She proclaimed some wine glasses tied together with wire, "Beautiful," and was photographed by a student/performance artist wearing pink rain boots and six cameras around her neck. According to the New Yorker, she left students and faculty alike tongue-tied: A student said, “It was like we were trying to talk, but no words were coming out,” while N.Y.U. chair Nancy Barton confessed, "I was a little bit of a deer in the headlights. I kept calling her Carla."