Word: porcelain
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...forever obsess about import versions of singles by the Jam, I shall try to name songs that I like that were fairly well-known: "Jumpin' Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child," "Shackles (Praise You)" by Mary Mary, "Thank You" by Dido, "Baby Did a Bad Thing" by Chris Isaak, "Porcelain" by Moby (I confess) and "Got Your Money" by Ol' Dirty Bastard (right). ODB IS ON THE LOOSE. ODB IS ON THE LOOSE. We interrupt this program to bring you this news. Wow. I always thought these things happened only in the movies. But as I'm sure you know...
...fate of our present. It is a lead-pipe cinch that the year 2100 will see the absurdities of our taste, both private and official, and wonder how we could have been so comically wrong about such self-evident crap. A few score years from now, will Jeff Koons' porcelain confections be on view in the world's museums, or will they have become like garden gnomes, sociological testimony to the degenerate taste of collectors in the late 20th century? Will people still gawp at those stinking fragments, awash in their tank of formaldehyde, the relics of Damien Hirst...
...year the gallery's spring show has been devoted to her. Franck is an American expatriate living in Paris whose work has been widely shown in Europe. She's a ceramist, or potter, depending on what you think of her very distinct style. Her bowls and vases are always porcelain and always small, due to the limitations of her kiln. They come in a few very specific shapes-round, rectangular, oval or flat. She takes a simple shape and varies it simply-some pieces are scalloped, some are painted to look like they are. For this show, she has made...
Upon entering a gallery filled with small porcelain vessels the first question that comes to mind is, "What differentiates craft from fine art?" These pieces are not like the modern ceramics or blown-glass pieces that are so widely accepted as having the same artistic value as paintings. They hold water. Franck was originally attracted to pottery because she felt that a well-made piece could evoke the same emotions and thoughts as a well-written poem. Do these small vessels evoke poetry in the same way that a Kandinsky evokes music? Not exactly, but they are beautiful...
...full livery, highlight the importance of external appearance to class distinction, while set designer Susan Roger's hybrid set is itself perfectly unsettled somewhere between abstraction and reality. The smells of real onstage cooking mingle with a spare room composed of strangely angled linoleum and frighteningly high stacks of porcelain dinner plates...