Word: angellic
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...Hirst's spotted Mini is roaring down the stairs as in a scene from The Italian Job. The staircase takes you to Hirst's sliced-up bovines, Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything, brooded over by Ron Mueck's London Angel. A corridor, giving a distant view of the shark, leads to the double-height circular conference room, now staffed with Saatchi icons. Offices that once held bureaucrats - each with its own unique marble fireplace - now contain single works like Hirst's giant (full) ashtray. It's not the only work that assaults...
Marisol (Edel Talaid), a young woman living alone in the city, is left behind by her guardian angel (Sara L. Bartel ’06) who decides to lead the celestial battle against a sick, senile God. Though her departure leaves Marisol more vulnerable and alone in her dangerous surroundings, the angel offers hope through the possibility of God’s defeat and a new beginning on Earth...
...Pollock? He was America's first painter--pop star, the drunken angel of an emerging hipster culture in search of new routes to those old American goals, the instinctive and the transcendent. Though the role unnerved him, it was secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean, in a car crash. But by that time the energies he had released were in motion everywhere. The painter Willem de Kooning said it best: "He broke the ice." True enough, but it broke him too. --By Richard Lacayo
...This is how Rembrandt painted angels," Vincent van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard in 1888. "He paints a self-portrait, old, toothless, wrinkled, wearing a cotton cap, a painting from life, in a mirror ... and, why or how I cannot tell ... Rembrandt paints a supernatural angel with a Da Vinci smile within that old man who resembles himself." That description certainly fits the superb 1669 Rembrandt self-portrait, on loan from London's National Gallery, currently hanging beside Van Gogh's own 1888 Self-Portrait as an Artist. It is the centerpiece of "Vincent's Choice...
...raise a kid on waitress money. Her monologue went from defiance ("You'll see my album. Lady Tiger don't stop") to despair ("You ain't going nowhere in Detroit. Nowhere") to dignified resolve for her son's sake ("We're never going to quit, are we, angel?"). It was a haunting slice of life, more authentic than any ER subplot...