Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revised by Alexander Gorsky). It is in the brashness, polish and satirical twists that Don Q seems transplanted. As Jerome Robbins broke up the anonymity of the old musical chorus line, Baryshnikov has livened up the role played by the corps de ballet, giving many of the 50-odd dancers at least some individuality. Several brief solos, small ensembles or fleeting bits of stage business make for nearly nonstop action. For the A.B.T. corps it must be an exhilarating ballet to dance...
...Exotic Bird series, in preparation by 1975, pushed further in that direction. The odd titles, which sound like surrealist whimsy- Mysterious bird of Ulieta, or, in a sardonic little pun, Steller 's albatross- were birds' names picked from an ornithological textbook. The paintings court vulgarity every inch of the way. Their forms, based on the French curves used by architectural draftsmen, are cut from honeycombed aluminum. But they are loaded with color, blaring with the kind of greedy, apoplectic vitality. On first sight, they look as though a squad of glue-snorting graffitists had been let loose with...
...writer was Pablo Picasso. If his sentiment seems odd (for someone who was to spend most of his life in France), we must blame the predominantly Francophile readings of art history for that. The real map of modernist culture in early 20th century Europe was not that of a capital surrounded by aesthetic provinces. It was more like a confederation: a scatter of nodes and local centers, engaged with one another and enjoying a persistent osmosis of ideas across the frontiers-Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich. Weimar, Barcelona, Vienna. Paris was uniquely hospitable to the avantgarde. But it had no monopoly...
...five oils of his mother Lucie, 82, will open in New York City's Davis & Long gallery on April 4. "My work is purely autobiographical. I work from people that interest me," explains Lucian, 55. The exhibit psyched up a London Sunday Times critic. "You can call it odd or art," he wrote after seeing Mom framed in a variety of poses. Among them (but of course): Lucie reclining on a couch...
...streets are also numbered, even streets running east and odd streets running west. A few streets, like 42nd, run both ways. When you get into the real downtown area, around Greenwich Village, the streets are named and make no particular sense. Central Park sits right in the middle of this large grid, and that means that a whole lot of streets north of 57th just end at the Park. In short, you're bound to get lost driving or walking, so take a cab. It's one of the most adventurous things you can do in New York...