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...Koons' work is so overexposed that it loses nothing in reproduction and gains nothing in the original. It is pure stasis. Koons is the baby to Andy Warhol's Rosemary. There is no artist in whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
...expose her voice and all the raw hurt it bears. Still, her singing transcends commonplace melodies to find the anguish between the words, behind the music. Even cowgirls get the blues, but McEntire's vibrant vocals seem to say there's hope in the deepest of doldrums. Reba's pure-country voice is a lariat across an abyss...
...Indian tribes and such. Don't worry about the politics: there isn't any. This six-part dance suite is set to a yawping, march-based score by Wynton Marsalis and played by the trumpeter and his band. The choreography, by City Ballet's artistic director, Peter Martins, is pure syncopated glitz -- down, dirty and eye dazzling. It's an occasion for some of the company's stars -- led by Yvonne Borree, as perky as a coffeemaker -- to slink and stretch, vamp and vogue, wiggle their butts and show off. You'd think Bob Fosse's Broadway rather than George...
...titanically grave and simple group of Atlas presenting the golden apples of the Hesperides to Herakles (from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia) and the famous low-relief carving of the armed goddess Athena, leaning on her spear, absorbed in thought, the body fixed in a space of almost pure geometry (from the Acropolis Museum in Athens...
...very unlike the version made of it by Neoclassicists 2,000 years later, and recycled in this show. "No symbols or special trappings of divinity," writes Gage, "were required beyond the figure's physical harmony. The most perfect beauty, to the Greek of the 5th century, was the pure and unadorned." But classical Greek sculpture was neither pure nor unadorned; its decor has been lost or worn away. Were we to see it in its original state, we would find it shockingly "vulgar." All the great figures and sculpture were painted in violent reds, ochers and blues, like a seaside...