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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this, handled right, might have provoked a passable show. But Schwarz seems to think that alchemy is a major secret text of modern art as well, though all he can find to prove it is a mass of postsurrealist kitsch. A few good things come up in the net, but the show is a tendentious mishmash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Egos, Kitsch and the Real Thing | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...link between such things and the surrealist delight in dream images is the theme of this show, which contrasts old curiosities with a range of modern work that runs from Joseph Cornell boxes to a weirdly beautiful reflection on nature and culture by the contemporary Italian sculptor Mario Merz, involving a motorbike with buffalo horns for handlebars, a zebra's head and a string of neon numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Egos, Kitsch and the Real Thing | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...want to turn it into a Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins and the splenetically funny Jim Belushi) to form a profoundly modern relationship. The movie is so intent on ingratiating itself with its audience that it betrays the meaning of its source. One of Mamet's themes--that friends are more possessive than lovers --remains as a vagrant motif. The rest is obscured in the mist of soft- focus cuteness, as yuppie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Everything New Is Old Again | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...marriage of staging and scholarship has had a remarkable effect on the way contemporary listeners evaluate old works. Modern orchestras and opera companies employ an essentially uniform approach to music, no matter what its provenance. But the rise of original instrument groups, working in a repertory that now extends from the Middle Ages to the early romantics, has gloriously revealed the crucial distinctions that separate, say, Mozart and Haydn from the 19th century. Vive la difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the 18th Century Hit Parade | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...formidable task; like Havana cigars and Scotch whisky, the French baroque is an acquired taste. The operas of Rameau, Jean-Baptiste Lully and others who flourished in the late 17th and 18th centuries are subtly alluring, yet their convoluted plots, emotional restraint and refined aesthetic make them remote to modern audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the 18th Century Hit Parade | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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