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Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #282," originally made for an artist's project in Harper's Bazaar, provides another interesting comparison with Ritts' commercial photographs upstairs. Sherman, easily one of the most important photographers of the past fifteen years, photographs herself in various guises ranging from ingenue to Bacchus. In "Untitled #282," she lies before us in an outlandish, semi-transparent gauze dress by one of Madonna's favorite designers, Jean-Paul Gaultier. Her legs are slightly spread, but the voyeuristic gratification usually afforded us by such images is denied by our recognition of the opaque, flesh-toned tights which ascend...
...Prix de Rome, the most prestigious composers' competition in Paris, but the judges deemed it too daring. This work tells the tale of Orpheus' death in three movements. The first is a sorrowful tenor melody in which Orpheus laments for his lost Eurydice. The second depicts the wrath of Bacchus' priestesses, who tear Orpheus to pieces when he rejects their love. Both a tenor and a women's choir are required for this movement, but this seems almost a mistake on Berlioz's part, as the tenor's voice is completely drowned out by the women's voices...
...arrived just in time for Bacchus, run by one of the oldest and most influential floats. Its king was Jean-Claude Van Damme--who earned my eternal good will be, at one point, dumping most of a box of doubloons on my section of the crowd. I sat on the shoulders of random men and screamed "Throw me somethin', mister!--the classic Mardi Gras...
...deity is still Bacchus. Most of the songs are up-tempo exhortations -- anthems for Animal House. The rollicking Everything Louder Than Everything Else has a mantra ("A wasted youth is better by far/ Than a wise and productive old age") that could be the fight song for the University of Wisconsin marching band...
...deity is still Bacchus. Most of the songs are uptempo exhortations -- anthems for Animal House. The rollicking Everything Louder Than Everything Else has a mantra ("A wasted youth is better by far/ Than a wise and productive old age") that could be the fight song for the University of Wisconsin marching band...