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...looks like a real retrospective but is not one. It covers the past seven years of Salle's work and is -- to pinch a term from Jean Baudrillard, the French semiotician whose phrases are parroted everywhere in the art world today and recur like pious ejaculations in the exhibition catalog -- a "simulacrum." In days of yore, the aim of a museum retrospective used to be clear. It was to sum up a distinguished career, presenting the evidence of a long life's work. For a major museum to give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would have seemed absurd...
...most obvious kind. Its peculiar smugness comes from the belief that appropriation is the best, even the only way for art to keep its power in a media-soaked environment. "By embracing the intensity of empty value at the core of mass-media representation," claims Lisa Phillips in her catalog essay, "only then can the perennial challenge be met of finding and constructing significant meaning in the midst of declining values for images and words." This is modish nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that art's relation to mass media has become...
...were a critique of affectlessness. Thus his work is credited with exposing what it merely embodies. This is a no-lose situation, under which the artist is held to be interesting for what he does not say. "Salle's images," remarks the show's curator, Janet Kardon, in the catalog, "often seem directed away from us, as if we were not the right audience." Lovers of serious painting can only agree...
Gorbachev was just getting wound up. In cool and firm tones, with uncommon candor, he rattled off a long catalog of abuses of the system. He charged that...
...landmark speech, the Soviet leader offers a stunning catalog of troubles that face his country. He calls for new policies, but makes clear that nothing that would change the Communist Party' s role or power will be allowed. -- The U. S. bars travel to Lebanon, and Terry Waite vanishes. -- A bungled coup tests President Aquino as Filipinos prepare to vote on a constitution...