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...biblical figures. Nearby is the Stairway of Virtues (with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity); fountains representing the senses of taste, smell, hearing and sight; and the equestrian statue of Longuinhos, which represents a man who had a daughter he couldn't marry off. The statue has become an object of superstition - it is believed that if a girl walks around the statue three times, she will be married. Could be worth...
...during prime time) and video games (up 17.6%), which have no federal chaperones. Lose the guys, and you lose millions in ad revenue. Alienate the FCC, especially in an election year, and you risk millions in fines. The networks are caught between an irresistible force and an implacable object...
...1960s, Carl Andre's 6 x 6 Den Haag Steel Lock, a mat of 36 steel plates arranged to form a black square. First assembled in 1968, it remains to this day one of the bluntest things that have ever presumed to radiate the aura of an art object--which may be what was bothering a recent visitor to the show "A Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958-1968." The art lover, a guy who looked to be in his early 30s, with shoulder-length hair and a porkpie hat, gave the work a dirty look, furtively checked the gallery...
...looked like one. Andre's steel plates and piles of bricks, Donald Judd's Plexiglas and wooden boxes, Robert Morris' big plywood L shapes, Dan Flavin's bare fluorescent light tubes, Frank Stella's pinstriped canvases--they all flowed from a shared premise. As much as possible, the art object should be based on a single form that announces itself all at once or on a repeated form that produces a similar effect. It should not involve varied surfaces or a balance of different compositional elements. It should appear manufactured, not uniquely handmade. It should not make a reference...
...your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate...