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...most noticeable work of art in "Aperto 93" greets you before you go in; it is a huge mural composed of hundreds of color photographs of human genitalia, he, she, he, she, ranging widely in age and size. It scored a palpable hit on the G-spot of the Italian press, partly because its author, Oliviero Toscani, does the advertising photos for Benetton. Despite Toscani's stance as a fearless realist, this Don Giovanni's catalog in Cibachrome is aesthetically inert, and after five minutes about as shocking as a mural of human elbows might be. Nevertheless, it wins (hairs...
...series of paintings and sculptures titled Made in Heaven. They depict Koons having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome; as art, wholly inert beneath their gaudiness...
...black patrolman observes, "it's all about survival here." Across the street from the school is a graveyard, its iron fence mangled where a sixth-grader crashed a car he had hot-wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning the school custodians splash bleach against the doorways to wash away the stench of urine. Behind the building are the projects -- public housing...
More than 35 people gathered at the Peabody Museum yesterday to create a mural featuring colorful Native American designs and heighten awareness of what Columbus Day means to Native Americans...
...participants, many of whom were graduate students, encouraged passers-by throughout the afternoon to contribute to the mural. Perley, a Native American, said he hopes the mural will eventually be on display inside the museum...