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...Australian art and culture, in all its fractured forms? With 130 artists in two venues, "2004: Australian Culture Now" is bigger than the Biennale of Sydney, with much more of a local pulse and sense of fun. Film, fashion and furniture all get sucked into the vortex of this monster mash. As the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's Victoria Lynn writes in the catalog, the exhibition's approach "is more in line with the ways in which we absorb and process information today: through fragments, a myriad of databases and search engines...
...cartooning work in the world." To achieve that, he keeps things small. Working out of a messy but colorfully decorated former dentist's office, he employs two full-time staff members and publishes only about 20 books a year. His pickiness and critical success have earned D&Q a monster reputation among the comixcenti and--with increased exposure in regular bookstores--the general public. In 2003, Oliveros says, D&Q racked up $715,000 in revenue, five times as much...
...heroic efforts against a monster like Hitler, who was slowly swallowing up Europe, possibly be compared with the war in Iraq, one being waged for America's political interests? TERESA FONTAINE Antibes, France...
...plays better this time. The production team, headed by designer Stuart Craig, has stopped pausing to admire its handiwork and splashed splendid images on the screen at a brisk pace. Azkaban conjures up a purple triple-decker bus (it can instantly slim itself to pass between two vehicles), a Monster Book of Monsters (it snarls at Harry, then scoots under his bed) and Buckbeak the hippogriff (a wonderfully realistic creature with an unpredictable personality). And does it all without preening...
...different languages. It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. Foregoing a traditional story, it reads like Neptune's dream after a night of bad sushi. Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules the seas. He battles a giant squid, dinosaurs, The Pequod from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," the Titanic and even Noah's ark. It is not about a real whale, but the idea of a whale...