Word: musee
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...essentially a matter of taste becomes an exercise in forcible catholicity, not to mention seeming hip. Trying to balance "important" albums and those that will actually provide enduring pleasure can effectively subvert the whole point of the art form, which is the personal, almost physical interaction with the muse. Checking out albums that I might not normally hear is all for the good, but no amount of research is going to make you tap your foot...
There have been good book surveys of California art, led off more than 20 years ago by Peter Plagens' Sunshine Muse. But until now no institution has taken on the daunting task of mounting an exhibition that surveys the visual culture of California in relation to a century's worth of social changes in that huge, dynamic and almost crazily heterodox state. That is what the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has tried to do in a mammoth show that opened last month: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000." It involves some 800 works...
...Lennon was certainly no saint. His personal life did not always match his philosophy and aspirations. When he fell in love with Yoko One - who was truly his soul mate and muse - he treated his first wife rather shabbily. The divorce settlement, while broadly in line with the conventions of the day, was not the act of a generous or gracious man. His laudable devotion to his second son, Sean, was partly in reaction to the guilt of his neglect of his first son, Julian. Though he was just starting to make amends with Julian, his murder took place before...
...lyrics). But on Painting it Red, Heaton comes across as a defender of true love, even if he rarely sinks to clichd subjects and metaphors, singing about love through old age and rages against infidelity and abuse. For all the songs' backwards compliments, Heaton's muse is always in sight, as on "10,000 Feet": "the landing won't be fatal/If love's parachute's been dropped." A- -Roman Altshuler...
...occasionally the muse is indulgent, and when it works, it's irresistible. Sliding the bar and working the pedals adds a quicksilver fluidity to the sound of picked notes, and the richness of the chords makes their guitar counterparts sound puny and one-dimensional. Stumbling through a transcription of "Wichita Lineman," I think I catch a fleeting glimpse of the promised land...