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...covered, his images bear a haunting and austere elegance. His pictures can make you tear up, but they're never sentimental. Sometimes you gasp at the terrible beauty he finds in something that is simply terrible. In other words, Jim's work is something rare in journalism: art. Jim has spent a lifetime turning agony into imagery and giving, as he puts it, "voice to those who otherwise would not have a voice...
...Art of the Campaign...
...between McCain's brand of lying and Obama's, with the former's ranging anywhere from the "annoying to the sleazy" [Sept. 29]. And Klein could think of only one instance when Obama crossed the line (though never calling it a lie), whereas McCain has turned it into an art form. Absent from the list of Obama's "lies" is his declaration that McCain actually is O.K. with the war in Iraq continuing for 100 years if need be. That pronouncement far exceeds any exaggerations from the McCain camp. The media's love affair with Obama is well documented. Nevertheless...
...should know. Zucker virtually invented the spoof film with his '80s comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and with Scary Movie 3 and 4, he has continued to make good money, if not exactly art, in the genre. But snagging a distributor for this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life...
...more. In addition to the Academy, museums in Dallas, Atlanta and Los Angeles carry his stamp. So do an agile reconfiguration of the Morgan Library in New York City and a 52-story headquarters for the New York Times. Still to come are an addition to the Art Institute of Chicago; new buildings for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; a makeover of the Harvard University Art Museum; and a satellite facility in Manhattan for the Whitney Museum of American Art. It's Renzo Piano's world. We're just...