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...play attacks every current issue head on, but it deals with such issues as if they were quite naturally part of any family's history. Treatment of the aged, parent-child relationships, therapy, politics, senility, Blackness, gayness, economics, education, abuse, dreams, gender, humor, sex--the play is a veritable catalog of contemporary matters, a tapestry of American family life. Amidst all the tensions, the clearest one developed is that of mother-daughter relationships...
...facilitate the process, prospective clients are provided with a catalog of donors listing basic information, such as ethnicity, height and education. Once clients have narrowed down their choices, they can request more information...
Three weeks ago, an exhibition of the work of the English artists Gilbert and George opened at the National Art Gallery in Beijing. Its catalog bore a fulsome essay comparing the two "living sculptures" to Confucius himself and lamenting the utter decadence of so much Western art, which "seems to have lost any moral significance on account of its fruitless search for formal purity. Meaning and ornament . . . have been marginalized . . . The black square painting is a goal that can appeal only to very few aesthetes. Not only the black square but equally the crushed automobile, the Coca-Cola...
...might expect, quite a few of those black squares (Ad Reinhardt, 1913-67), crushed autos (John Chamberlain, born 1927) and Coca-Cola cans (Guess Who, 1928-87) spurned by the cultural critic of Beijing. And, again as you might expect, they are sympathetically, even rhapsodically treated in the catalog, written in part by the show's curators -- Christos Joachimides in Berlin and Norman Rosenthal, the exhibitions secretary of the Royal Academy. "The time was right," carols Rosenthal, reflecting on the postwar dominance of American art, "the market was right, and it was perhaps inevitable that after 1945 the American...
...true. And yet how curious. For Rosenthal wrote and signed the Beijing catalog essay too. Well, hey, Karl Marx used to say that capitalist culture harbored contradictions. But it took this English curator to bring them to the point of total cognitive dissonance: preening himself as the voice of American avant-gardes on one side of the world, slagging them off as "detritus" on the other...