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TIME is right. It is the age of "Me." Cell-phone users hold personal conversations loud enough for the world to hear. Drivers swerve down the freeway, coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other, honking and worrying about no one but themselves. Totally uninteresting people make videos describing their lives. Has all this noise made things better? Maybe the next Persons of the Year should be "They," so people might actually consider the existence of other human beings...
Looking like Santa demands a certain demeanor even when not dandling kids on one's knee. "If someone cuts you off on the freeway, all you can do is smile and wave," says Connaghan, who has played Santa in the Hollywood Christmas Parade...
...aged 48, there were no limits to what he seemed capable of achieving. His color-saturated screens of suburban living rooms unfolded triumphantly around the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale; just opened was his first sell-out show in Los Angeles; and a new series of freeway paintings was in the works, suggesting infinite possible directions for his art. Then came Arkley's drug overdose in his Melbourne studio. And in the intervening years, the emotions left by his tragic death - as well as the usual art-market maneuvering - colored the public perception of him. Curator Smith believes there...
...Lost is a jungle of quasi-shamanistic kismet, it resonates because our world appears that way too. In Babel, Heroes and their forebears--from Magnolia to the novels of Thomas Pynchon--even if the connections may be contrived, they feel authentic. That guy in the next car on the freeway could change my life someday! If I save the cheerleader, I can save the world...
...older lady ahead stops at a yellow light, and when the SUV behind hasn’t turned off their brights, it’s easy to get angry and feel myself enraged. Which makes me want a drink, which makes me want to rage. So if white freeway lines and no turns on red, tray tables down and iPods switched off are all responsible for making people go mad, perhaps weekend nights spent raging respond to similarly imprisoning rules here at school. Between dinner schedules and hourly church bells, it’s easy to feel shuttled from lunch...