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...over two more wrenching weeks in September, weve watched those very images repeat themselves in New Orleans and Mississippi, and we cant help but wonder if that promise of never again was made to be broken by our government...
...cant pre-empt a hurricane, but you can pre-empt the worst of its devastation if you see these things comingas the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did with New Orleans way back...
...cheap alternative to having a car, quickly takes a Bostonian from place to place, and allows a rider to enjoy the guitar stylings of tone-deaf singers, but the real reason I ride the T is that my cell phone cant ring. While sitting on the T, Ia Harvard student with papers to write, activities to activitate, and roommates to gossip withhave license to do absolutely nothing...
...revelation of the show, curated by Bruce James, is that artists like Gleeson, James Cant and Robert Klippel cut to the heart of European Surrealism, rubbing shoulders with Breton and Joan Mir? in Paris, and exhibiting with Roland Penrose and Man Ray in London. "Surrealism was not nationalistic, it was an international movement," says James. "In fact it was rampantly global in its ambitions. The term revolution was entirely justified because these artists really wanted to change the world." A decade since the National Gallery of Australia's "Surrealism: Revolution by Night" reunited the Antipodeans with their contemporaries overseas...
What does survive is The Lonely Coast, 1939, painted around the time of Cant's return to Australia. With this seascape of roiling waves under ominous clouds, a generation's fear of war is made transparent. That is the true subject of a collection that begins in 1925 and ends in 1955. Here even the most whimsical of images, Eric Thake's Happy Landing, 1939, speaks of the turbines of warfare. It was war that brought German ?migr? Hein Heckroth to Australia. His brief detention in rural N.S.W. resulted in one of the show's loveliest works, Surreal Landscape...