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...life that is what he chiefly considered himself to be. For the most part, art history tends to treat him the same way. The show of Sheeler's photography that runs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through Feb. 2, then moves to New York City, Frankfurt and Detroit, is the first major museum exhibition devoted entirely to his work with a camera. Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Gilles Mora, it's an enjoyable reminder that Sheeler was in the first ranks of American photographers. As a painter, he now seems less adventurous than quasi-abstractionists...
...Ford Motor Co. commissioned Sheeler to spend six weeks photographing Ford's immense new River Rouge assembly plant near Detroit. Ford Plant, River Rouge, Criss-Crossed Conveyors, one of the most famous images in 20th century photography, divides the plant into a multitude of planes, angles and openings with an unmistakable resemblance to the buttresses and steeples of a soaring medieval church. It's no surprise that the next lengthy photo series that Sheeler worked on was a study of the great French cathedral at Chartres. He had already treated the Ford plant as a house...
Boston beat out New York, Miami and Detroit to get the nod from the Democratic National Committee yesterday...
Formulaic though it may be, 8 Mile occasionally steps outside the strictures of its plot to comment on rap, race and class. The movie takes its name from a real road in Detroit which marks the unofficial boundary between the white and black sections of the city. In the film, 8 Mile Road represents the racial barrier Rabbit must overcome to achieve success in a predominantly black art form. For those looking for it, 8 Mile thus doubles as political and cultural commentary, persuasively rebutting the idea that rap can be performed and appreciated exclusively by members of one race...
...It’s funny that in Detroit, trance is bigger than techno and in Chicago, trance is bigger than house,” Paul Oakenfold notes. Yeah, it’s a total mystery. At the end of our 30 minutes, he signals that it’s time to move on, and before I know it, he’s already whipped out his cell phone, back to work. Business as usual...