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...compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening a time capsule or poking around your mother's attic. The greatest irony, as this show demonstrates, is that an era whose credo was "forever young" now belongs...
...sensibilities. He ended up in a mental hospital, kept under heavy sedation. Finally, his lover Pierre Bergé secured his release, and the two created the house of Yves Saint Laurent in 1961. His ideas went down much better in the relaxed atmosphere of the 1960s - creations like the Mondrian dress and the Le Smoking jacket became style icons. Saint Laurent became part of the jet set, socializing with Catherine Deneuve and Andy Warhol. Enthralled with youth culture, he opened Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, a store of less expensive ready-to-wear, on the hip left bank. Berg...
...think they--or you, perhaps, dear reader, with the collected works of Thomas Pynchon decorating your shelves and a Piet Mondrian print on the wall--know better. I do not claim that today's artists lack talent or brains or ability; many of them have all three in spades. But nobody, anywhere, seems to know what to with...
Welty's other pieces featured in the show seem vastly disconnected from her work with twist-ties. Medical charts covered in Wite-Out, Manila-Out, glue and odd colored dots line one wall, faintly resembling Mondrian paintings as viewed by a tremendously nearsighted museum-goer. The charts, while each is a different size, vary very little from one to the next. Though the idea is innovative, Welty simply seems to be showing us yet another way to appreciate the diversity of supplies from Staples...
...trail of Al Gore's e-mail from a campaign laptop PC to our inbox started with a terse phone message sent from the lobby of the Los Angeles Mondrian hotel - "Lehane? Tumulty. Call me about an e-mail" - and ended at a Gore rally in Hannibal, Mo., four days later when a guy named Mouse, sitting in a BBQ joint called Buddy's, clicked Send. In between, well...