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...matter, Kim’s work exhibits a remarkable range, with a Wayne Thiebault-esque canvas of peanut butter cups, a bronze relief of a bitten Oreo, and a wall of small oil paintings arranged Salon-style in unique frames, featuring portraits of commonplace snack foods like Teddy Grahams, Goldfish, and animal crackers. Kim shares the gallery with fellow student Taylor Butler, whose large, quasi-abstract canvases featuring technologically-inspired imagery like a jet-ski or a car hauler, look like watered-down versions of Kristin Baker’s racecar-inspired paintings, without the saturated colors reminiscent...
...called the "methods of modern construction." Struggling to mount a personal response to the challenge of Cubism, he approached the very edge of abstraction. Things and people were reduced to concise signs of themselves, but in the end Matisse always remained attached to the visible world. Just look at Goldfish and Palette, from 1914, in which light and shadow, form and space, are distilled into ambiguous stage flats. Is that black strip down the center of the painting a wall or a shadow? Actually, it's the central mullion of a window and its shadow, widened and dislocated by perception...
...intense. In December, only 532 houses were listed for sale, down from approximately 3,500 a year ago. "Pretty much anything under $150,000 is going to be bought with cash," says Oscar Rodriguez, a Century 21 real estate agent. He calls his clients, primarily first-time buyers, "goldfish going against sharks." (See pictures of Los Angeles...
...Family Guy. Yes, its protagonist, CIA agent Stan Smith, is a nuclear-family patriarch. And where Family Guy has a talking dog and Cleveland a talking bear, Dad has both a talking alien (a show-tune-obsessed card with a voice like Paul Lynde's) and a talking goldfish. (See the worst TV spin-offs of all time...
...Nowadays, though, that rulebook has been thrown out. Now, if the tabloids get a story, the mainstream has to hop on or they'll be accused of a cover-up. It shouldn't be a surprise for any President that he's being watched, that he lives in a goldfish bowl. There's no place to hide anymore...