Word: masterful
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...genius of Prina’s work seems to lie precisely in the agility and creativity with which he is able to play this field. He is a past master at creating extraordinarily rich and complex objects, thick concatenations of meaning. Prina has carefully planned out even the smallest details of both his works themselves and the way they are displayed, from the texture or color of his materials to the way the objects are attached to the floor or wall, and all of these details contribute to the layering of meaning in the end product. Unfortunately, I don?...
...base materialism is indeed Pollock’s most important legacy to younger artists, then in Kline’s case we can certainly say that the pupil has surpassed the master. Looking at a Pollock, you might be vaugely disturbed by it’s aggressive materiality, but looking at Kline, I have to say I was positively repulsed. There is something uncannily biological about the pattern of deep crevices and protruding nubs of encaustic that build up its mounded surface. It reminds me of a giant fungus-—if I reached out and touched...
Polenzani gave a copy of the album to the owner of her label, Daemon Records—who happened to be Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The disc was a burned copy of the recently finished master disc. “Mike’s cell phone number [was] written on the top in a Sharpie,” Warren nostalgically recalls...
...director, could not have chosen a more cliché plot line for his latest film, Spanglish: a vivacious, non-English speaking Latina maid falls in love with her rich, white boss while her child is slowly assimilated against her wishes. But Spanglish was crafted by the hands of a master and the potentially nauseous subject matter is handled with grace and aplomb...
Next year I would either like to be tucked away in an MFA [Master of Fine Arts] program somewhere or in New York (and there, I would like to either work at some artsy or intellectual magazine or raid the designer closet at Vogue). In 10 years, I would like to be in New York writing novels and doing the same...