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...still believes in rigid divisions of importance between craft and fine art -- pottery and sculpture, for instance -- could do worse than visit the show by the California ceramist Ken Price, now on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Artists have been making sculpture out of baked clay since the dawn of time -- mud was God's medium for fashioning Adam -- and yet, in America, there lingers an irrational feeling that "real" sculpture ought to be made of steel, or bronze, or stone, or wood: anything but clay, in fact...
...than 2 ft. high, and many of the best of them are to be measured in inches. You enter Price's imagination from the wrong end of the telescope. His objects don't declare themselves across the room at you. Like certain Joseph Cornell boxes, or like the tiny clay caricature heads by Daumier that so influenced Giacometti's ideas of scale they pull you close in with their bright and almost fetishistic visual promise until you have shrunk, as it were, to their size...
...practice on hard courts at home, but we will be playing Columbia on clay," Fish said. "Most of my players have little or no experience on clay. At best, they've played a little bit on clay over the summer...
...slow clay wasn't enough of a test today, the Crimson must make a quick turn around and meet the Quakers on some of the fastest hard courts in the league tomorrow...
...real diamond-cut luster and precision. It also has plenty of nerve. Two tunes, Man's Job and Real Man, trash all the stereotypes of rock lyrics ("Now if you're lookin' for a hero, someone to save the day,/ Well, darlin', my feet they're made of clay") and present love -- looking for it, nurturing it, keeping it -- as the real...