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...Oxford New American Dictionary defines "still life" as "a painting of lifeless things." Unfortunately, in most cases, a lifeless subject means a dull painting. And five rooms full of dull paintings--the MFA's "Grand Illusion: Four Centuries of Still Life"--definitely makes for a lifeless show...
...some diversity of medium, scale, and color, which is welcome in a show in which the majority of the pieces are similar in size and palette. (The Japanese version of the show, according to the catalogue, didn't include the contemporary works, and, without them, must have been painfully dull.) Contemporary artists grapple with mass-produced products as subjects, trying to endow them with the individuality that every flower or piece of fruit naturally possesses. Barnet Reubenstein's "Oyster Pails" of 1978-79 shows stacks of hundreds of Chinese take-out cartons; though in reality they are identical, Reubenstein uses...
...minions of the military junta, but its symbols. At the main army barracks in Cap Haitien, crowds stripped police and army buildings as if they were exorcising an evil spirit. For most of the week, bonfires fed by old arrest records and prison sentencing memos left a dull blue haze over the town's courtyards. Outside the home of the region's despised military commander, his band's tubas, trombones and horns were piled up to form a barrier in the middle of the street, then littered with thousands of pages of musical scores. "It was their music," said...
Money liberation never got publicity like women's liberation, but it saved the average bankroll from a dull life of servitude. A new book tells how the people's dollars were led out of financial bondage and crossed the Hudson River onto Wall Street. A Piece of the Action it's called, written by Joe Nocera. Nocera and I go back a few years, but I'm trying to be objective and leave out buddy blurbs, such as "surefire Pulitzer." He is on to a great story, nonetheless...
Ever consistent, the cerebral but dull Cheney (he makes Baker appear charismatic by comparison) reflects the views he unsuccessfully advanced when Haiti was his headache. "I said during the Bush Administration and I say today that we should forget about it," Cheney says. "Haiti's a mess. That's too bad. It was a mistake for us to begin the sanctions Clinton's continued. They only hurt the poor, the people who deserve better since we won't allow them into the U.S., which is the right policy. We should lift the embargo and focus on really important things, like...