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...tacit defiance, one of Peter Richards's sculptures mischievously calls out a challenge to M.C. Escher's ants. The sculpture, a hyper-rotated Mbius strip made of discarded metal vent-covers and fibrous tissue paper, partially lacquered with beeswax, is titled "Sleep with Me." Richards claims with all honesty that this is not meant to be an overt sexual solicitation. "It's more of an invitation," he says, to experience what he calls "osmosis," an existence as form rather than idea. But it's difficult to look at "Bride" and not see in it a female praying mantis made...
Richards, a noted poet and lecturer at Tufts University, is having his first exhibit at the Gallery Bershad. Richards's companion for the show is artist Karen Boutelle, whose mixed-media wall-hangings are more visceral than Richards's pale metal sculptures. Boutelle's "Ambivalent Passages" looks like an open gash with blood pouring forward in hues of petrified amber. But her most spectacular piece, "Ambivalent Passages III," seems to defy this straight sanguine categorization. The layers of cheesecloth, beeswax, shellac, oil bar, paint and rice paper that Boutelle uses in her art are here transformed into a composition reminiscent...
...Carlos has been asked to put the pedal to the metal more times than he can remember. When trying to get to Logan in under 15 minutes, Carlos tells his passengers: "No, get a helicopter...
...Shoes: The shoes were really nice too. They are simple and have that solar strip. General metal on shoes looks really rank, and on dress shoes like that it can look really stodgy. But on him, it looks fine. Generally, I think that weird, triangly short of shape doesn't look right, but it looks really good with his outfit...
...Chain Mail Smith: Do-it-yourself medieval metal-armor kit; no child should joust without...