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...tougher, more rewarding tack. It doesn't turn away from human troubles and tragedy; it looks for their larger meaning, their place in the divine scheme, the way they can lead to understanding, acceptance and (with luck) redemption. They also make for great stories. Like Julie Taymor's The Lion King, Metamorphoses is avant-garde theater at its most vital and ingratiating. Disney, take note...
...defies the insidiousness of time and endows the great artist with a kind of immortality. We stand back and admire the finished product as a static entity. But what do we do if the masterpiece is a 30-year old decomposing lump of chocolate in the shape of lion? What if the work of art changes with time and will eventually disintergrate entirely? And how can food, such an ordinary part of life, be transformed into something sacred? These are only some of the questioned posed by Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth and Sonja Alhauser, a rollicking, probing...
...three artists exhibited in Eat Art, Dieter Roth is the most ironic and perhaps the most macabre. Bertolt Brecht’s idea that we only eat in order to excrete is applicable to his work. The juxtaposition of a lion made out of chocolate (which he calls a self portrait) and bunny made out of excrement reveals that eating is just part of the digestive process. Ironically, after 30 years of decomposition, the chocolate lion is more revolting than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does...
...coveted MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 "genius grant" awarded for brilliance above and beyond the call of duty, a prize never before given to a classical performer. (Previous arts fellows include avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, indie filmmaker John Sayles and The Lion King's Julie Taymor.) "It was a complete surprise and a total shock," he says, with happy amazement warming up his well-bred English accent...
...Kenya. "All around the crickets are singing their nightly chorus--and so many different types of song, it is hard to imagine...An owl is hooting about a half-mile down the gorge, and before supper we heard the weird call of the hyena--which means His Lordship the Lion is around somewhere...At the moment I must stop, and after sitting up here, quite alone with the wind, the moon, the stars, the whole immense vastness of Africa and the Serengeti with the mysterious universe all around and very real, creep into my bed and build up enough energy...