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...this was a statement about his particular life and times, though his life played a part in it, and so did his times. What Bacon was after was something deeper. He wanted to make the body the visible sign of the eternal devils of human nature, the dog beneath the skin that bares its fangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Francis Bacon: Tragic Genius | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Monsieur Jacques had never had to paint in such proportions before. His brush erect above the canvas, he paused, deliberated, then decided to begin with a more manageable area of his subject’s anatomy.His subject was posed gracefully upon a marble pedestal, his skin gleaming bronze beneath the white folds of linen, his laurel-crowned brow lifted heavenward. Between brow and heaven was extended a manly hand, rough and calloused from hard labor, yet surprisingly sensitive. A cut pomegranate balanced heavily upon his long tapered fingers. Each seed gleamed redly from within the open wound of the fruit...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...these two Senators is about to be thrust into the White House, however, where the gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression will shape his agenda and probably narrow his options for years to come. Beneath the armor of two politicians in crisis mode, there were signs of the kind of President each would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Can Lead Us Out of This Mess? | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...think Lacayo's term "product lines on canvas" says it all. Welcome to the Wal-Mart of art. I find it strange that however closely I look at the photo of his new work The Golden Calf, I can't quite see the heap of gold-plated manure beneath the bull. Kevin Wooldridge, MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Introducing Sarah Palin | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...Rose Garden, Go Ask Alice, Sybil. There were books about crazy boys too, of course, such as Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express. But that's just boys. Everybody knows they're crazy. There was something disturbingly, voyeuristically hypnotic about those hippie Ophelias--electrode paste on their temples beneath their center-parted hair, Jefferson Airplane on the sound track, psychedelic chaos in their brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief Lives | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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