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SHOULD ART BE SEEN AND NOT heard? An old-fashioned notion--the catalog to the Bruce Nauman retrospective, currently at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, has a human ear on its cover. And indeed, no show was ever noisier. Go in, and you hit a wall of sound, all disagreeable: moanings and groanings; the prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed...
...journalist only used the catalog to writethe paragraph about me and I don't call that goodjournalism," she says...
...jaunty and straightforward as its title, Moo allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym. She writes course-catalog entries, student-fiction papers and newspaper articles (even in Spanish). She masters billionaire talk, bovine-cloning monologues and the shrewd counsel of black elder sisters. In its easy virtuosity and wicked glee, Moo is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work. And if Moo finally has more of a target than a point, it never allows us to forget that, in a certain context...
...course they were not: the Allied committees restored the art to its rightful owners as fast as possible after the war, whereas the Russians refused to. The catalog affects pained astonishment that the Western press should adopt the "quite ridiculous" habit of calling a theft a theft, but that's what it was, and no mealiness of the mouth can change it. Piotrovski insists in his catalog preface that the show "is not being held to make a point in an argument but is rather an event in the life of the arts." Well and good, but the argument will...
This bloody catalog is what the Algerian government showed when a handful of foreign journalists were permitted in the country last week under government protection. Even so, the visit offered a rare glimpse inside the maelstrom of a country where violence on both the Islamist and government sides has closed the door to outsiders, leaving Algeria to conduct its vicious hidden war in private...