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...main source of the cacophony is fireworks. In the twisting streets of Old Delhi, dozens of shops stock everything from thumb-sized "bombs" tightly wrapped in green string to huge cardboard tubes with names like "Galaxy" that shoot hundreds of colorful balls into the sky. Store fronts are hung with banners for "Cock Brand" fireworks promising "sparklers, crackers, rockets and fancy fireworks." On each banner a proud rooster stands amidst an orange and red fireburst. The trade is brisk in the buildup to Diwali, with thousands of stores across India selling hundreds of tons of firecrackers...
...from Australia" included only one), visitors to "Prism" could be forgiven for thinking that Aboriginal art now occupies the center. Here, prominent non-Aboriginal artists such as Piccinini, Rosemary Laing and Fiona Hall, for once, become the minority. But because of the quietly considered way the pictures are hung, the Aboriginal upstaging appears neither jarring nor odd but perfectly natural. In this way it reflects both the heightened interest in Aboriginal art internationally, and its growing impact on the mainstream at home. As Tillers himself notes in the exhibition catalog, "It is impossible today for an Australian artist...
...book notes that “a copy of this portrait is in Memorial Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts.” It is unclear where the painting hung when it was stolen...
...next morning, a groggy-eyed and runny-nosed Smith, hung-over and still in the clothes she had worn the night before, opts for an early a.m.nap before beginning her creation...
...American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like the moon, out of reach but never out of sight. And the question he always seemed to pose for them was not what to make of what he was doing, although that could be puzzling enough, but what more to make...