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Xie’s curatorial arrangement optimally displays a series of surreal, sexually charged images. “Garden of Earthly Delights?? features nude female figures interacting within a surrealist landscape, while “Erotica” depicts similar figures draped across an imposing, devil-like creature, whose intricate folds of flesh and meticulously detailed features elicit a potent emotional response. Perhaps the most striking of these sexual, unearthly images is “Los Dos Kaylas,” which depicts two faceless, nude figures, their bodies textured with a mélange of colors, perched...
...Judaism, physical gratification itself is viewed as anything but corrosive. On the contrary, the Talmud records that it was common practice for Torah scholars to have sex their wives on the eve of the Sabbath since, as one prominent commentator notes, the Sabbath is meant for “delights?? and “bodily pleasures...
...Earthly Delights?? marks Lightning Bolt’s emergence as a fully competent studio act. It is a career landmark, if not their pinnacle, suggesting multiple potential directions for the band: imitate their current successes ad infinitum, explore radically different territory, or walk the delicate line of career innovators such as Sonic Youth and Radiohead. Lightning Bolt has defined their territory and explored its every facet, and “Earthly Delights?? is the perfection of their current form...
...invited myself. Details are not important. After entering his surprisingly small common room, I saw two things: a hookah (his roommate’s) and a bunch of books (his). Upon closer inspection, I found a box of questionable health food containing an assortment of good-for-you delights??including dried prunes. He told me his mother often sends such packages. Far from being disgusted by this Grape Nuts-loving momma’s boy, I found Glazer’s close attachment to his family strangely attractive...
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