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...raps of many gangsta rappers. Q-Tip, on his new album, Amplified (Arista), brings back the honesty--but doesn't cut back on the fun. This is a party album about picking up chicks (Vivrant Thing), cruising the streets (Let's Ride) and dancing in clubs (Breathe & Stop). "I look at a track like a lady I'm about to get into a relationship with," says Q-Tip. "I let the music guide me and take me wherever...
...Stockbridge, Mass.--the place where his work is usually confined, to contain any risk of aesthetic infection. It's that the tour ends in triumph at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, an institution founded as a stronghold of "nonobjective art." If Rockwell can enter the Guggenheim, look soon for Mapplethorpe at the Vatican...
...turned back to Rockwell, a man who could paint cute but intricate scenes like The Runaway, where a cop and a waiter at a lunch counter size up a wayward but innocent kid. Is this art rising from the primordial muck of kitsch? Or just kitsch? As the grownups look him over, the kid makes you think of Rockwell being examined by the powers that be. Including...
...turned out, in his own politics Rockwell was a liberal, which could be guessed from the understated plea for tolerance that so many of his pictures make. In the 1960s, when he left the Post for Look magazine, he turned to producing plainer public statements like The Problem We All Live With, a bare rectangle in which a black girl is chaperoned by federal Marshals as she tries to integrate a Southern school. Public rhetoric was never Rockwell's strength. But he brings such a hard-lit, neoclassical calm to this moment that the remnants of a tomato smashed against...
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