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...that video games have taken. Like the movie industry, what many people seem to prize most in video games is what only large corporate bureaucracies at the cutting edge of graphics and special effects innovation can provide. Unlike the movie industry, however, the video game industry was not the inheritor of any previously existing artistic traditions like acting, directing, stage production, dance, or vaudeville. Video games were entirely new, built up from 1’s and 0’s not by artist-creators but by technologist-creators...
...last years, when his heroin addiction overcame his gifts and took his life, Basquiat was someone who produced some irresistible work. After it wraps up in Brooklyn on June 5, the exhibition moves on to Los Angeles and Houston, bringing cross-country the Basquiat debate--Was he the last inheritor of the Modernist tradition? A puerile nobody? Something in between?--and its attendant recollections of the '80s. Meanwhile, a sizable show called "East Village USA" has just completed a three-month run at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan. That one surveyed the moment two decades ago when...
...Strasberg, preached. In the first years of his fame, that was O.K. with Brando. It saved him a lot of tedious explanations. And it was more than O.K. with the crowd at the Actors Studio, which he briefly joined. It was the headquarters of Stanislavskian acting in America, inheritor of the Group Theater tradition (where in the 1930s Strasberg first came to controversial prominence). They had long needed a star to lead their revolution--against the well-spoken, emotionally disconnected acting style that had long prevailed on stage and film, indeed against the whole slick, corrupt Broadway-Hollywood...
...Sadr has long been the wild card factor facing the U.S. mission in Iraq. Neither the U.S. nor its Iraqi exile allies had reckoned with the strength of the underground organization the young radical cleric had built in Iraq under Saddam Hussein - a necessity since Moqtada was the inheritor of a distinguished line of militant Shiite clerics who had been assassinated for challenging the Baathist regime. When Baghdad fell on April 9, Sadr was first out of the blocks in the race to build a power base in the Shiite community. Within weeks, Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood had been renamed...
...would be folly to assume, as some conservatives do, that the media is a one-headed conglomerate out to get Bush and his administration. Rather, it is best to consider the news media as the inheritor of H.L. Mencken’s tradition of journalistic pessimism. That is, in every situation, images of destruction, death and disaster are more newsworthy than the human interest story that tells the tale of Umm Qasr’s municipal elections. Frequently do we hear the mantra of violence in the press recited: antiwar activist Michael Moore, whose ilk dwells on this kind...