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Price's work has nothing to do with such discursive archness. And it has ^ even less to do with the Bernard Leach tradition of quiet good taste and honesty in materials that grew out of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. As Edward Lebow points out in his engaging catalog introduction to this show, Price, from his student days in Peter Voulkos' West Coast classes, "devoted much of his studio effort to clearing his throat and going ptooey on 'creative craft' and 'good design...
Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942--Through June 7. Features film program, exhibition catalog, orientation video and exhibition tour. Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston...
Gill, for one, looks as if he stepped out of an L.L. Bean catalog, and he loves golf so much that he lives on a course outside Nashville. Cleve Francis, one of the few black country singers signed to a major label since Charley Pride in the '60s, is a 46-year-old cardiologist from the suburbs of Washington. Mary-Chapin Carpenter has a degree in American civilization from Brown University; she drew the idea for her highly successful When Halley Came to Jackson, about the appearance of Halley's comet in Mississippi, from a line in the memoirs...
...labels are linked to a central computer that changes shelf prices for 2,000 to 4,000 items a week and coordinates them with check-out registers. And at Safeway, the nation's third largest chain (after American Stores and Kroger), customers can shop from home, using a computerized catalog system to order anything from apricot jelly to zucchini. Shoppers can transmit an order, charge it to their credit card, and have delivery arranged -- all without a word to anyone at the store...
...outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...