Word: onyx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Bertolino plans to cut down the size of his paraphernalia counter by March, he says the fantastic array of football-shaped power hitters. onyx, wood and corncob papers: mirrors for cutting cocaine: glass pipes tiny spoons scales brass razor electric water pipes smoke v pipes and ginseng powder will provide ample loopholes for storeowners who want to work around the law. Bertolino has added cigarettes to his inventors which he says will probably allow him to carry rolling papers rolling machine and ginseng powder...
...what his imitators could never do, and why there are no successful Pollock forgeries; they always end up spaghetti, looking like whereas vomit, or Pollock-in onyx, or his best work, at any rate-had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous: he would often retouch the drip with a brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar...
...Hallucinating. With Borofsky, at least, you do think you are hallucinating. But then, why should a stage set not be "sculpture"? In the Whitney, pretty well anything that isn't flat or a photograph can be classified as sculpture, like Scott Burton's table made of sheet onyx lit from inside, or his chairs-two hunks of rough gray gneiss, cut in a way that makes only minimal concessions to human buttocks, impartially devoid of life as sculpture and comfort as furniture...
...fussily decorated palace consumed 63 tons of imported marble, ten tons of wrought iron, three tons of carved teakwood from India, onyx for inlaying, thousands of square feet of gold and copper leaf, 42 crystal chandeliers, as well as enough stained glass for 80 windows. Claimed cost of the materials...