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Varnedoe and the show's co-curator, Adam Gopnik (art critic of the New Yorker), have taken on a sprawling, slippery, tangled theme -- a survey of the transactions between fine art and popular culture over three-quarters of a century, from Cubism to the '80s. They set out to show how some "high" artists raided "low" (popular and mass) culture for their own purposes. Not all of them, needless to say, did. You won't find the visual argot of advertising, news photography, graffiti or comic strips in the work of the great Apollonians of the past hundred years, from...
...free. Garage space is $15 a month, and a washer-dryer and dishwasher are each rentable for $10 monthly. There are nine groundskeepers to maintain the lawns, and 15 security guards to keep the peace. "We've always thought it was out of this world," says Irwin Gopnik, a McGill University English professor. Adds Daughter Alison: "This is not luxury living. This is the way people should live, surrounded by air, space, sun and this whole rich visual experience...