Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only people working for big outfits who are enrolling either. Self-employed decorative artist Jill Saddic, 29, of New York City recently completed a one-semester course in multimedia and design at N.Y.U.'s continuing-ed school. The certificate she received will help springboard her further into computer graphic arts. "I didn't really have any kind of computer background, but I felt that I needed a really specialized course to advance myself," says Saddic, who has a bachelor's degree in illustration. "Going back to school for another full-fledged degree just would not have been practical...
Performance artist Karen Finley, who recently lost a Supreme Court case on a law requiring NEA grants to adhere to decency standards, has a new show, The Return of the Chocolate-Smeared Woman...
Welcome to the bittersweet world of Sean Lennon. With the release of his first full-length album, Into the Sun (Grand Royal), inevitably the spotlights have turned to probe (Sean) Lennon's music, his philosophy and his beginnings without regard to the fragility of his blossoming status as an artist. Veteran reviewers are quick to judge based on genetics--they are naively searching out a tangible father-son musical bond when there is no reason for correlation. Newbie writers jump the bandwagon and want a piece of the hype. The blame cannot be wholly reserved for the press; listeners...
...pain," and I did. I was never able to throw hard after that. Maybe it was a bit of good luck. The advantage in later years, when I became a player of the game of catch, was that I was all motion and no speed--a change-up artist with nothing to change up on--so that the children could study the mechanics of throwing and anticipate making a catch without too much fear...
...Ryan, pinwheeling raffish charisma) has everything, and too much of it. He swaggers, smokes, guzzles beer, grabs life by the butt and gives it a fat smack. He makes abrupt love to Simon's morbid mother (Maria Porter) and bored sister (Parker Posey). He is, he tells Simon, an artist, the author of a huge, unpublished tome called My Confession; and he encourages Simon to lift himself from lethargy and create his own masterpiece...