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Unlike them, Florine Stettheimer was not in the least bohemian. The Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple. Such creatures would never have been tolerated at Stettheimer's evenings in town, where decorum prevailed, or her picnics in the country, which she painted as fetes champetres full of wispy, epicene figures...
...make such a rebound, Klein leaped over the line, ultimately changing his image from avant-garde to creepy . These ads enter the heart of adult darkness, where toying with the sexuality of young teens is thinkable. One of the most offensive segments poses a young man alone, his face in that numb, deadened look associated with films that can be bought only in an adult bookstore. A man off-camera says, "You got a real nice look. How old are you? Are you strong? You think you could rip that shirt off of you? That's a real nice body...
...distribute as it thought fit. All the same, it is obvious from this debacle that the NEA should not have set itself up as the Lady Bountiful of the so-called cutting edge, as it did in the '80s. Government is almost by definition a poor patron of the avant-garde. Artists who call themselves sociopolitical subversives, and then ask for state handouts, are either fools or hypocrites. But at the same time, it is, and plausibly should be, a legitimate function of government patronage to encourage promising forms of artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their...
...chords in the complex manner of pianists like Bill Evans and Hank Jones. Occasionally Terrasson will use three or four notes when one would suffice. But his revitalization of the standards is what's getting him deserved notice. That's because Terrasson's style--a fertile union of jazz avant-garde and classical--is recognizably a mix of controlled aggression and profound affection, something very close to an act of love...
DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany...