Word: canvasing
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The funniest and most agrestic of all his paintings were, undoubtedly, the cows -- a snook cocked at Picasso's heroic Spanish bulls. Kippered there on the canvas in their dense yet somehow airy paint, yearning, dumb and absurdly coquettish, they are among the most memorable animals in modern art. Several...
The high times may be a changin', but America's drug scene is as frightening as ever. Last week the University of Michigan released a survey showing a rise in illicit drug use by American college students, with the most significant increase involving hallucinogens like LSD. Meanwhile a canvas of...
If there were a Leaden Ass award, it would have to be split between France and Australia. The French pavilion confirms the ongoing bankruptcy of contemporary art in Paris with a Warhol clone named Jean-Pierre Raynaud. His bright idea was to imprint 15,500 white ceramic tiles with the...
Directed by Brian Gibson and starring Angela Bassett as Tina and Laurence Fishburne as Ike, What's Love Got to Do with It is no movie masterpiece. The picture's canvas is so broad (40 years), and its depiction of Ike's brutality so encyclopedic, that it sometimes plays like...
The novel Orlando, inspired by Woolf's love for Vita Sackville-West, is a gay lark disguised as a historical biography. Centuries and genders fly past, each one bending like a willow to accommodate Woolf's puckish feminist insight and hindsight. Potter's movie, faithful in spirit to the book...