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...began with some cousin cuisine. Paul Gonzalez had taken his cousin Donna on a long trek through a remote part of Colombia. They had missed the day's meals and had only a jar of pickled vegetables and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. So they repaired to hammocks strung up under the moonlight--and began a love story that has lasted 14 years and produced two children...
Unfortunately for Minogue, one single is not likely to make her a permanent sensation in the U.S. American and European audiences have vastly different expectations of their female pop stars. Europeans want butterflies in a bell jar, pop-culture toys who can be counted on every few years for a danceable single, a low neckline and a naughty video or public scandal. Americans want those things too, but they demand that their pop stars also make a show of evolving into something more. We require at least the appearance of artistic appetite to leaven the guilt of a cheap thrill...
...hazy, red sphere floating within a Plexiglas cube when seen from a distance. The unimaginable use of space, color, and medium in this work reflects the genius Wheelock makes us of in most of his works. However, his use of common materials—lines of texts in a jar or huge cubes of aluminum—and his toying with spatial perception seem out of place in Krakow’s gallery...
...paintings in Impressionist Still Life were chosen for their quality, innovation, and cohesion, and borrowed from over fifty public and private collections worldwide. One painting, never previously shown in the United States, is Claude Monet’s (1840-1926) rare “Jar of Peaches” (1866), which depicts a jar of canned peaches and a few fresh peaches on a glossy marble surface. The painting exemplifies Monet’s obsession with surface, texture and reflection in an unusual arena for the landscape maestro. Of Monet’s two thousand catalogued works, only three percent...
...saying Kentucky doesn't offer its share of distinctive intoxicants. Bourbon and tobacco have long been popular drugs here, and even in these abstemious times, a well-known member of the political class will occasionally pour his visitors a glass of moonshine from a Mason jar with plumped cherries bobbing on the bottom...