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AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings Americans a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
...valuable and timely exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art demonstrates just how much further Japan's children of the postwar "economic miracle" have gone in breaking the old rules. "Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties" affords American audiences an overdue opportunity to examine some 30 paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works made by nine artists age 40 or younger, plus one artists' collective. The first major U.S. museum showing of new art from Japan in nearly two decades, the exhibition was organized by Thomas Sokolowski of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center...
Ultimately, even without the thematic weight imposed on these works by the somewhat arbitrary title "Against Nature," this is very much an exhibition about Japanese artists' continuing tug-of-war with the forces of modernism. Its organizers obviously believe that, in responding to the world around them, today's Japanese artmakers are answering to a personal, not a prescribed, vision of how to depict it. Perhaps, in a modern world, this approach is only natural...
...master who is Reiner's closest friend -- "We finish each other's sentences," Crystal says, "and he finishes my lunch" -- meets the challenge of making a compulsive Lothario not just likable but impishly seductive. And Ephron, a helpful Heloise of emotional heartburn, perks the script with clever answers to modern problems. How long should a man hold a woman after making love to her? "Somewhere between 30 seconds and all night." What doubt nags at any woman who lets Mr. Right get away? "You'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married...
...Yeah, that's it. He's an artist. A modern-day Pablo Mozart. Or that guy who cut his ear off? What's his name...