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Identifying the routes through which he made his way into the awareness of American artists and the uses they made of him is the nicely executed purpose of "Picasso and American Art," a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that continues there through Jan. 28 before moving on to San Francisco and Minneapolis, Minn. It's a show, by the way, that might just as well be called "Big Daddy." For artists seeking a way forward, Picasso was the classic Oedipal father, the man who had to be dealt with, digested and finally overthrown...
...month, including fan rental. And ScentAir is expanding its repertoire by cooking up smells that are meant not to charm but to repel: last month it re-created the smell of burning electrical wire for a military simulation; earlier, it had dreamed up dinosaur dung for a children's museum...
...really is like walking around in a museum. It’s unbelievable,” he says. “The stories that are on the cobblestones of those streets are amazing—following that red line and seeing the Americana that’s behind every…building and really getting an education about American history, which was the thing I did on the weekends. As far becoming a Red Sox fan, I’ve given up on all professional sports after the Lakers sort of dismantled...
When Ben Ziskind steals a Marc Chagall painting from the Museum of Hebraic Art, he has to come back three days later—along with everyone else who’d visited the exhibit—to tell curator Erica Frank that he didn?...
...forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels “very light, as if, lying prone on the bed, he were actually floating through the air”—and we have our doubts. With so many...