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Tang Guo, one of Nanjing's most successful contemporary painters, has a studio that could have been clipped from an architectural magazine: a polished black brick floor reflects light from an elegant hanging lamp wrapped in handmade paper. The walls are a washed-out olive green, and Tang's jewel-toned works lean against furniture and walls with a deceptive casualness?precisely where they will be noticed most. In contrast, Guo Haiping's studio in the city center is haphazardly filled with his signature finger-painted monochromes and random objects?a toilet hangs on the entrance room wall, covered from...
...stared at it in amazement, the dug-out shelf above him where he had placed matches, a row of batteries, and a battery-powered fluorescent lamp that cast the only light in the room - an eerie light that would make his features hard to see when...
...movie; even the musical scenes, featuring North Texas jazzman Red Calhoun, move at the turtle tempo of Hollywood's favorite black of the period, Stepin Fetchit. And there were technical gaffes galore: in a late-night scene in "Dirty Gertie," actress Francine Everett clicks on a bedside lamp and the screen actually darkens for a moment before full lights finally come up. Yet at least one Williams film, his debut "Blood of Jesus" (1941), has a naive grandeur to match its subject. A morality play about an angel and a devil fighting for a woman's soul, it begins with...
.../scratch duels that are their signature sound. “The Bionic Jam” verges on techno, with its driving samples and “Better, faster, stronger/ We have the technology” sloganeering. The Baldwins then swerve into the appropriately kitschily titled “Lava lamp,” which playfully flirts with the sound of elevator muzak in its psychedelic haze, as does “Somebody Else’s Favorite Song...
...this grand scope that makes for the exhibit’s most compelling print. It depicts another street corner, where the camera looks obliquely down a long city street. The image is divided vertically by another grey lamp post; on its right, a pretzel vendor plies his trade while on the left in the foreground a balding, mousy looking man’s face is half-obscured by an enormous brown paper bag. Far in the deep background, yet clearly visible, are the two towers of the World Trade Center. This exhibit was assembled in the wake of Sept...