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Though Whistler never went to Japan, he was seen as a bridge between East and West, the voracious collector of blue-and-white porcelain who brought a Japanese aesthetic of hints and nuances into late 19th century painting. His abhorrence of narrative, his preference for the exquisitely designed moment over the slice of life, was new; it epitomized the idea of Art for Art's Sake. It was provocative, in 1871, to call a portrait of his mother Arrangement in Grey and Black. It implied that the hallowed sentimentality about motherhood in Victorian England was cultural baggage, that the aesthetic...
...Duvall is no ordinary pornography collector. His little black book is built into a program called SurfWatch that, instead of connecting to the electronic hot spots, automatically blocks access to them. SurfWatch of Los Altos, California, is one of a growing number of computer programs designed to answer a fundamental concern of parents, educators and even employers: How can porn be prevented from coming into computers? Fearful that Congress will try to stifle cyberspace with overly broad antismut laws, computer hackers and civil libertarians are promoting such desktop remedies as a way to keep censorship where they think it belongs...
...have not yet been accorded the critical attention Andy Warhol's drew, is playing the pop icon in a film about painter Jean Michel Basquiat, a Warhol protaga. And what an art-ridden affair it is. The film was written and is being directed by painter Julian Schnabel. Art collector DENNIS HOPPER plays collector-dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who marketed Basquiat to the world. Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays Basquiat, has no art-world ties. "This is the first nondocumentary film about an American artist," says Hopper, who owns paintings by both Basquiat and Schnabel. "It's important...
...going to have to come into play." So Hoffman jumped the fence and in 1991 founded Child Support Enforcement; today his firm employs eight full-time investigators on some 3,000 cases. Hoffman's backround as a high public official is unusual; the business runs more to seasoned debt collectors such as Find Dad's Mel Shaw, who will say, straight-faced, of a projected quarry, "I' m his worst nightmare. I'll be on him like a new coat of paint." They employ standard investigative techniques, but once they find their man, they have more resources than the average...
Kitaj's growing ambition, now fully realized, was to re-create something that was supposed to have been expelled from modern art: history painting. It's as though his own sense of expatriation compelled him toward this gap, not as a witness to history but as a collector and combiner of its enigmatic fragments. Then his curiosity solidified into an obsession, as a Jew, with Jewish history, Jewish fate and intellectual character. His early models were more literary than visual-the "collage" of Eliot's The Waste Land, in particular...