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...head are, as he once told Rolling Stone, "breathtakingly horrible. But great. No, not great. Good." One might be tempted to say that Diller embraces contradiction with Zen-like equanimity, although equanimity is probably not a strong suit in someone famous for screaming at underlings and hurling bric-a-brac during meetings. One might also be tempted to say that Diller doesn't like to have things just one way when he can have them more than...
...different light one day and decided, after much study and research, that it was an early work by...Michelangelo. Once a sufficient number of other experts had given their support to this attribution, the announcement was made that transformed, at least tentatively, a bit of bric-a-brac into the only Michelangelo sculpture on U.S. soil...
...process of reevaluation of common American cultural forms occurs throughout Cultures and Contexts. Amidst representations of the Civil War, society matrons, industrial culture, bric-a-brac, the American flag and landscapes, Emily Dickinson's childhood sewing sampler attracts attention. The poet's infant stitches are paired with a work by contemporary text artist Jenny Holzer entitled, "Don't Talk Down to Me..." Holzer's sampler-inspired ultimatum for respect, spoken presumably by a woman, inspires comparisons to the changing role of women in American culture. Dickinson's deceptively archaic sampler, fading with age, reminds us of all that...
...star of this production. For the first act, Morgan had created a perfect Victorian gentleman's study in dark wood with stained glass windows and elegant furniture. Drawing in Wilde's own taste for Asiatic art, Morgan has decorated the room with Asian screens and blue china bric-a-brac. The overall affect is stunning. The second act set is even better, a gorgeous country garden complete with white lawn furniture and overhanging trees. A profusion of flowers cover the black iron gates and the interior of the third set can be glimpsed through one door. If the third...
...penned an exciting and timely civic history. In one sumptuous two thousand year sweep, Hughes jettisons the deadness of prose that most readers associate with History and instead writes with the same electric, cobaltblue style that colors his art writing. While presenting an astonishing array of historical bric-a -brac, Hughes also welds together history and culture, politics and architecture, into an incisive textual amalgam...