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...party, my suitemates were still balancing the TVs atop stacks of furniture, hooking them up to the VCR, and plastering loose stereo wires onto the walls with liberal amounts of tape. Meanwhile, in my bedroom, I hooked up the blacklights and, having set out a plateful of fluorescent chalk, wrote BE CREATIVE on one wall so that our guests would get the idea. Upstairs, sofas, a second stereo system, and mixed drinks were arranged to create a cozy "get-away-from-the-dance-floor-and-beer" setup. Within two hours, all three rooms and the stairwell outside would be packed...
Meanwhile, a seven-foot-tall guy proceeded to draw a huge pink anatomically correct man on my ceiling. Within a short time, people had covered every available surface with fluorescent chalk--mantel, windowshades, windowframes, bookshelves, doorjambs--and began to look for new places to draw, such as their friends' backsides...
...drawings. His style juxtaposes "summarily indicated areas" in the subject's body with "intricately detailed penwork" that creates an expressive face. Rembrandt's pupils Doomer, Backer and Flinck reflected their mentor's style in their work. The exhibit contains six similar works by these artists--sketchy yet expressive chalk figure drawings on blue paper...
...much a part of daily American life as Mickey Mouse is. The Worcester Art Museum has set aside one of their small galleries as a room where children (and adults, too) can participate in hands-on activities. The room features Keith Haring coloring books, black paper and chalk which visitors can use to create "subway drawings" like Haring's, and huge black and white plastic-covered photographs of Madonna and Batman which children can embellish with colored markers to create Warhol-esque images. It is Mickey Mouse, though, that is the unifying image of this exhibition. His presence here guarantees...
...figure out a way to unfairly criticize the convention and criticize the President. I don't see people going back and looking at what Jesse Jackson said and what Jerry Brown said at the Democratic Convention, but you sure hear that review of the Republican Convention, so I just chalk it up as one more unfair attack on the President...