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Finally there is the not at all negligible matter of how the music sounds. A common, philistine criticism of avant-garde art used to be that small children banging on pots and pans or flinging paint at a canvas could have produced exactly the same effect. In Cage's case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of Silence | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

These artists often combined their individual skills as landscape or figure painters to collaborate on a single canvas. The bloody and gory details of The Head of Medusa, a collaboration by Rubens and Snyders, have been considered so frightening that in the past the painting has been exhibited behind a...

Author: By Joanna Dreifus, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Major Rubens Exhibit in America launched at MFA | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

At times, this broad canvas tends to obscure the nuances of O'Hara's art. Gooch provides a detailed account of the party, argument or museum exhibit which inspired a particular poem, but usually offers little analysis of the aesthetic or linguistic concerns the poem explores. In some ways, this...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Parties and Poetry | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

With only $25 in his wallet -- earnings from mowing a few lawns -- he quickly settled on a used Remington semiautomatic 12-gauge shotgun. He was pleasantly surprised by its heft as he slid it into a canvas bag and scurried back to his truck. At 16, Doug was finally a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

That evening, while his parents watched television, Doug sneaked into the garage and got his Dad's hacksaw. Carefully selecting a spot along the barrel, he began to cut. He was amazed at how easily the blade sliced through the metal. Smoothing the end with a metal file, he then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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