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...catchy. Just makes you want to go to the nearest party and at the first sign of a failed pick-up, point, laugh, and yell, “Man, you just got chopped n skrewed!” Or not. Even in going along with Teddy’s abstract video, some parts just make you say: why? Why is there an elephant with headphones and a chain onscreen throughout Luda’s verse? Why did T-Pain randomly turn into a pimp lion? And why did he feel it was necessary to pop and lock...
Meet Me in St. Louis. The St. Louis Art Museum opened Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 this week. (Click here for a review.) Billing itself as the "first major U.S. exhibition to reconsider Abstract Expressionism in over 20 years," the show takes a look at 50 works by such artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ad Reinhardt and Frank Stella through the lens of two contemporary art critics, Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, as they dueled over the meaning of changes in the art world. Through Jan. 11, 2009. 1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park...
...always correlate with nutritional value, and the notion that the cards were supposed to be some guide-at-a-glance for healthy choices was inherently problematic. In a way, instead of demystifying Chickwiches and ranger cookies, the cards took attention away from the food itself in favor of abstract numbers; the overwhelming distress the cards caused for people with serious eating concerns far outweighed the “benefit...
...million Noahs in a million arks,” and yet, throughout the book, he’s asking his readership to acknowledge that we are all in the same boat.Friedman’s argument is empty because his finest points become obscured by abstract digressions that don’t project a clear message of how to find solutions. He has an impressively broad perspective on the state of global development and makes a compelling argument that America’s economic well-being and global standing depend on investing more in energy leadership. He also draws attention...
...resident choreographer in 2001. Widely heralded as the heir to the great neo-classical choreographer George Balanchine, he was entrusted with transforming the company for our post-Balanchine century creating what he called “a world that is not specific to either the narrative or the abstract.” Boston Ballet’s “Night of Stars” on Friday night clearly aimed to make good on this dream, and the resulting evening was a somewhat disproportionate amalgam with occasional bursts of fireworks.The program opener was Jorma Elo?...