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...make peace with the past. His real instinct was forward, into pictures like David with the Head of Goliath, possibly one of his last. The victorious David, rumored to have been modeled after one of the artist's male lovers, holds the severed head of Goliath, a plain self-portrait of the artist. The painting is Caravaggio at the height of his lethal powers. Throughout his life he included his own likeness in his canvases. But in exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate, he appears more frequently than ever. In The Raising of Lazarus - a powerful topic...
...pathos, warm humor, and classical tragedy in surprisingly equal parts. The end is devastating, but the promise of redemption is not far from the film’s horizon. Throw in the charming friendship between director and star Clint Eastwood and narrator Morgan Freeman, and you have a complex portrait of a world both heartrending and hopeful...
...Lovelace, Reems, and Damiano as “artists” of the first rank. Inside Deep Throat, with its attempt to portray the American tragedy of the rise and fall of the self-made man (and woman), overreaches and ultimately misses its mark, but provides a thoroughly entertaining portrait of pornographic pop culture, its peddlers, and its consumers...
Professional storytellers, portrait artists, and calligraphers assist in the events, while twenty Harvard student volunteers interact with the children and oversee the weekly art projects that take place in the galleries themselves
...images in the exhibition capture the intensity of change in the Chinese economy," says co-curator Wu Hung. "The artists make their works very quickly, so everything has a raw sense of immediacy and energy." Raw is the operative word. For a portrait of performance artist Zhang Huan, photographer Rong Rong required Zhang to stand in a dirty toilet block for an hour, smeared with honey and covered with flies. "The art is so dynamic because in China everything moves so fast," says Wu, "and art captures this sense of social transformation." Can't make the Seattle showing? "Between Past...