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With its short, catchy melodic fragments, simple chordal harmonies, rock-steady rhythms and virtually trance-inducing repetitions, the minimalist music of such composers as Reich, 45, Philip Glass, 45, and John Adams, 35, is directly emotional in its appeal, a deliberate rebuke to three decades of arid, overly intellectualized music produced by the post-war avantgarde. Although minimal music is often tightly organized, its objective is to create a mood in the listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement...
...previous films, like Halloween and The Fog, Director John Carpenter has proved himself adept at a kind of minimalist spookiness. It is a mistake to do away with that huge and unreasonable vegetable and the scary possibility that it may be lurking behind every closed door. A deeper problem is that Carpenter's people are not strongly or wittily characterized (though Kurt Russell makes a stalwart hero). Not caring much about them, one's attention fastens on the Thing's spectacular depredations. When it invades a body, a man's guts may open and snap shut...
...Wilson's torch of a voice blends in with the thick, funky beat laid down by drummer Keith Strickland and guitarist Ricky Wilson. The result is a kind of trance, similar to producer Byrne's hypnotic work on "Remain in Light," certainly not as intricate or complicated, but more minimalist and celebratory. And it makes you want to move...
...Hyatt Foundation; the recipient is annually chosen by a distinguished jury for "significant contribution to humanity and the environment." The first winner, in 1979, was Philip Johnson, 75, who is both the indisputable doyen and the enfant terrible of contemporary architecture. Johnson was followed by the Mexican minimalist Luis Barragan, 80, and, last year, the British postmodernist James Stirling...
...three galleries on Congress Street reflect this attitude. Clustered on the upper floors of a warehouse, they are pointedly minimalist and unpretentious in decoration. Bare wooden floors, cavernous white rooms, a few spotlights, and a table or two exemplify this style. The resultant bright, light rooms are indicative of their fresh, breezy approach to art. "We are to cater to experimental art and to current issues rather that to work that is in any sense decorative," says Kate Nayduch, owner of Lopoukhine/Nayduch Gallery, adding, "One of the reasons we moved here was that we wanted to show large pictures. Space...