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...really wanted to love “The Black and White Album.” I believed that The Hives—even after touring with Maroon 5, collaborating with Timbaland, and recording with Pharrell Williams—would stay true to the formula that produced two of the most exciting rock albums of the last decade. I thought that, even as The Strokes lost their touch and The White Stripes altered their sound, The Hives would stand tall as the unwavering foundation for my love of the garage rock revival. “The Black and White Album?...
...idea of sectional conflict, and the idea that slavery was a regional institution rather than a national one,” Hahn said. In what turned out to be a controversial comparison, Hahn likened the communities of African-Americans in the North during the nineteenth century to the Maroons in the West Indies, groups of fugitive slaves during the same time period. “The northern settlements and enclaves, like Maroons, shared a fundamental orientation to the world around them: they were under siege,” Hahn said. Several audience members vocally disagreed with this analogy. Linda...
...been talking to Puryear about Maroon, a large, dark, bulbous form made mostly from wood and wire mesh covered with tar. The piece is part of his triumphant retrospective that opens Nov. 4 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was organized by John Elderfield, MOMA's chief curator of painting and sculpture. As soon as I brought up the beauty problem, Puryear agreed. It took me a minute to realize we were talking past each other. He thought the work was so challenging to ordinary notions of what's pleasing to the eye "that...
...much of late September, the road to the eastern gateway of Rangoon's revered Shwedagon pagoda was a sea of maroon and saffron robes, as hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to march in protest against Burma's military government...
...water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun Bagan, the other in the red and gold of East Bengal. Firecrackers and smoke bombs exploding in the stands drown out the thunder of the monsoon above...