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...move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were not proof enough of their staying power, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler had a bit more...
...would not choose to be eulogized. But let us just recall a thought from Pericles' Funeral Oration, which he often quoted: "The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over the native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives...
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing
...Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing look at the opening of Aronson's latest display of images, graven or otherwise m Manhattan's Nordness Gallery...
...hands pry through the surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside his graven image, discard his mask of duplicity He has succeeded where few contemporaries have even dared to try in marrying today's religious concerns with the visual arts...