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...come the mourners: six catalog essayists, rending their garments and mangling their syntax. Their rhetoric is sublime, beyond parody. "Since slavery and oppression under white supremacy are visible subtexts in Basquiat's work," intones one, "he is as close to a Goya as American painting has ever produced." "The paintings are alive and speak for themselves," cries another, "while Jean remains wrapped in the silent purple toga of Immortality." A third, between decorative quotes from Michel Foucault, extols Basquiat's "punishing regime of self-abuse" as part of "the disciplines imposed by the principle of inverse asceticism to which...
...malignant Other -- racial, cultural, critical, you name it -- bulks so large in this hagiographic exercise that one is surprised to find that the catalog nowhere mentions the one thing that Others did do for Basquiat in the last couple of years of his life: namely, get his pictures going when he was too zonked to do so himself. This operation was performed during the final six months by an artist named Rick Prol, at $15 an hour. Of course, artists have long used studio assistants. But under the circumstances, it seems hypocritical to gush about Basquiat's last works...
Those "transient few courses" are listed on five pages in the course catalog, under "Courses Related to Ethnic Studies in the United States...
...real world less congenial, artificial realities will become more attractive. Fifty years from now, the ability to put oneself in the shoes of another character in another place -- Rambo rafting down the Orinoco, say -- could be a metered commodity, like pay TV. Stewart Brand, creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, thinks these experiences might provide the kind of mind-expanding thrills people once got from psychedelic drugs, but without the mental and physical side effects...
After its new restructuring, Sears will be back pretty much where it started -- with the stores and its Allstate subsidiary, founded 60 years ago. In addition, the company will have to deal with the future of its trademark catalog, reported to be losing $200 million annually. As it goes back to business behind the counter, Sears must seek anew the answer to the retailer's most important question: What does the customer really want...