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...rural poverty that has inspired poor people and their champions throughout the history of Christianity. Today's crèche scenes, even the more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius St. Francis of Assisi to recapture this humble ideal. Put off by the jewel-encrusted and gilt-covered re-creations in the noble courts of his time, he borrowed some real farm animals and real straw and convened his midnight Mass on Christmas Eve of 1223 around a back-to-basics pageant that, as he wrote, showed "how He suffered the lack...
However, there are—sometimes, somewhere-—reasons not to lament our depressing mediocrity: the sudden appearance of cowboy or slouchy or moon boots, the occasional glimmer of jewel tones and some one-off cigarette-cut jeans. Closet fashionistas (pun intended) and savvy retailers conspire to save the student population from utter ugliness...
America should always be looking for ways to lower its trade barriers, not prop them up. The practice in question is nothing more than an anti-competitive and unproductive subsidy for a sagging industry. America’s steel industry, once a jewel in the West’s industrial crown, is now more like a low-grade glass tchotchke. It cannot compete with more efficient foreign producers, and it never will unless it is weaned of its habit of relying on Uncle Sam for help whenever profits are down...
...Kramer's Ergot" #5 (Gingko Press; 320 pages), edited by Sammy Harkham, also has a jewel-like quality. It's so aesthetically pure that it doesn't even print a price on the book. (It's $30). Appearing only annually, last year's giant issue established the series as the premier showcase for emerging/edgy talent by insisting on the seriousness of their endeavors with its sumptuous production values. (See TIME.comix review.) Printed in full color on thick paper stock at a large size, "Kramer's Ergot" allows artists who would otherwise only know inexpensive reproduction to see their work monumentalized...
...Instead, Taniguchi created an elegant, understated jewel box of a structure true to one of the guiding principles of his career: as a place for people and art to interact, the museum building should all but disappear. "Architecture is essentially a container for people and what's inside," says Taniguchi. "My architecture should not compete for attention if it is trying to fulfill that mission. Also, this is the Museum of Modern Art, one of the finest collections of art in the world. How do you compete with that? I don't think you should compete...