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...philosopher-king of expats in Asia for the past half-century. He arrived in Tokyo in 1947 as a typist with the U.S. government and never really left, writing dozens of books on Japanese movies, temples, history and fashion, while enjoying himself as an actor, musician, filmmaker and painter. The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is a monument to the pleasures of displacement. Richie watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn to two essential, and more formal, companion books also published in recent...
...FREE LEONARDO DA VINCI. No, it's not a movement to spring the 15th century painter from his final resting place in France, but a slogan emblazoned on a badge worn in 1972 by British art lovers in a campaign against entrance fees at national museums and art galleries. They finally won the fight in 2001. One of the liberated institutions, the British Museum, is displaying until Jan. 16 a selection of 240 badges from its roughly 12,000-item international collection. Coins and medals curator Philip Attwood says the exhibition, "Status Symbols: Identity and Belief on Modern Badges," provides...
...century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder FREE LEONARDO DA VINCI. No, it's not a movement to spring the 15th century painter from his final resting place in France, but a slogan emblazoned on a badge worn in 1972 by British art lovers in a campaign against entrance fees at national museums and art galleries. They finally won the fight in 2001. One of the liberated institutions, the British Museum, is displaying...
...printing—woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, screen prints—while embodying several inflections of what the process of printing affords an artist for her audience, the consumer. For it is with printing that the deflationary rhetoric of economics takes hold over art, that the struggle of the painter over poverty is cast in a new light—with the possibilities of reproduction that print afforded, production itself gained a stronger reference...
...autonomy when discussing meaning. True, formalist critics had thrown out social conventions of meaning in favor of formal analysis, but they then proceeded to use their discussion of form as a platform for the construction of abstract interpretations. Consider what happened with one of the classic formalist darlings, the painter Jackson Pollock. Formalist critics raved about his explosively gestural drips and splashes, but only so that they could begin talking about those marks as vehicles of existential self-expression. Likewise, formalists loved the austere combinations of line, plane and primary colors favored by the painter Piet Mondrian, but only because...