Word: picassos
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...here. Having cut their teeth (and having had every other appendage forcibly removed) during the South American Conflict with Coke, many agents learned that anyone who stands between the world's richest nation and its favorite supply of drugs is going to end up with facial features a la Picasso at best and dismembered at worst...
...funniest and most agrestic of all his paintings were, undoubtedly, the cows -- a snook cocked at Picasso's heroic Spanish bulls. Kippered there on the canvas in their dense yet somehow airy paint, yearning, dumb and absurdly coquettish, they are among the most memorable animals in modern art. Several of them, like Cow with the Beautiful Muzzle, 1954, also contain some of the most inspired and wristy drawing of Dubuffet's career, formed by the brush -- or its handle -- dragging through the thick paint...
...Mailer's Picasso...
Norman Mailer's latest work in progress, a biography of Pablo Picasso, has become embarrassing for his publisher, Random House, and his prominent editor, Jason Epstein. Picasso biographer John Richardson, who is also edited by Epstein, refused to allow excerpts from his 1991 book, A Life of Picasso: Volume I, 1881-1906, to be used in Mailer's book, which he denounced as a "scissors-and-paste job." Mailer now expects to sell his project -- sans the Richardson passages -- to another publisher. Richardson is staying at Random House but has switched editors...
...oversize bed frame, wire mesh and chairs, by Antoni Tapies. Tapies 30 years ago was a painter of great distinction, but on the evidence of this cumbersome and vapid work, he has no talent for sculpture; he is there because the Spanish fixedly believe he is the successor to Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work by one of the fathers of Pop art, Richard Hamilton, who split the Golden Lion, or main...