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...range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome; as art, wholly inert beneath their gaudiness...
...HARROWING FACES OF STARVAtion, the inert shapes of death. These are the images that have finally brought the world to Somalia's rescue. Why did it take so long, when some reporters have been telling the story for months? Such is the power of pictures: people are starving and dying in Liberia, Sudan, southern Iraq, Burma, Peru, yet no massive aid is offered. Humanitarian concern has no logical stopping point, but the world's attention is hard to capture. It is easy to argue that policymakers should not wait for gruesome television footage before they respond. But if images like...
...deepening emergency in Russia. Bush at first left the Balkan conflagration in Europe's hands; of late, Washington-led NATO has skirmished with the strictly European institutions on and off for the right to do nothing about the crisis. Overall, the Euro-American partnership seems so idle and inert that Anderson remarks, "I keep wondering why people talk about NATO anymore. For the life of me, I don't know...
...Liberty is of New York City. Unfortunately, because most of its designs were lost in the Spanish Civil War, nobody knows how Gaudi would have finished it, and the newly completed sections look dead compared with the parts Gaudi supervised. The facade sculptures by Josep Subirachs are particularly inert and vulgar. They seem to epitomize the moment when the religious art of Catholic Europe died for want of anything better to do, almost exactly 2,000 years after it began...
...hard to believe that anyone in 1991 could still speak of "assaulting conventions of taste," since Pop's media-fixated gaze has actually become the main convention of taste in the aesthetic debris left in the '80s' wake. The galleries of Europe and America are stuffed with inert, overconceptualized boilerplate, from Koons to Haim Steinbach, that gets praised for its "criticality" but, as a footnote exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery shows, is complacent and dull beyond belief. It "addresses" mass media and mass taste, but with a mincing snootiness unknown...