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...purpose. But it serves. The play was inspired by the paintings of Norman Rockwell and the work of the avant-garde installation artist Jason Rhoades, and it's a witty, sometimes mystifying, often riveting mishmash of classic Americana and anarchic performance art. It opens with a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," then slides into a series of Rockwellian scenes: a Thanksgiving dinner; a high school couple on a first date, accompanied by a recorded 1950s lesson in dating etiquette. In between, the actors create rickety constructions out of found objects (a football, a blonde...
...Harvard Bros" is evidently a Crimson-themed cover of a viral hit from self-described filmmaker/comedians The Lonely Island, "Bing Bong Brothers". How does the Harvard set stack up? Check out the video after the jump (WARNING: Explicit language...
...curator Zheng Shengtian argue in the show's excellent catalog, however, that, didactic or not, socialist art represented a "significant cultural movement in China" - one that produced some "truly great art," especially paintings, and that such works "continue to influence Chinese visual culture." The contemporary installation artist Xu Bing, whose Cultural Revolution - era drawings are on display, supports the idea that the production of propaganda led to legitimate artistic achievement. "If you want to probe deeply into the underpinnings of contemporary Chinese art," he says in the catalog, "you have to consider the influence of the Cultural Revolution...
...moralist, an up-by-his-bootstraps Catholic boy with a strong sense of right and wrong. He's like a Bing Crosby movie. He needs to get out more." - David Baugh, a Richmond, Va., defense lawyer (TIME, October...
...think we are? Gangsters?"), and Archie seconds that delusion. ("Keep your receipts," he tells one associate, "'cause this ain't the Mafia.") But the milieu is redolent of many a mob story, with the rocknrollas as goodfellas, and their hangouts as low-London franchises of the Ba-Da-Bing. The dialogue has an East End accent, but it's basically Tarantinian chatter - the joking among ruthless men with roguish rhetoric and short fuses - leavened for variety with the odd upmarket observation. "Beauty is a cruel mistress," Uri says of his painting, with a mixture of connoisseurship and threat. Some...