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...ceiling almost to the floor, it was made in 1969 by the great Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, an early adopter of "humble" women's crafts like weaving as high-art techniques. She also understood how abstract images could be adjusted until they hinted again at something human. So the quasi-vaginal slit that runs the length of her piece shifts it from the realm of mere geometry to something much more intimate. And the scale, roughly 13 ft. in diameter, makes it not so much a thing as a place, enveloping and pulsing with red life. That...
...heckler had to say. He gave us poignant tidbits regarding how we were somehow inferior because of our intelligence, he cheered when junior midfielder Zach Widbin was spitting up blood on the sideline after an illegal hit, and he barely backed down when a quasi-security guard told him to “take it easy” and stop his ridiculousness...
...enjoyable. Well-placed saxophones in “Passing Cloud” liven up an otherwise monotonous stretch of the album. “Mexican Guy,” despite its off-color racial humor, does have a infectious beat. Lyrically speaking, the album still exhibits the nihilism and quasi-political fury characteristic of “Raw Power” and punk rock in general, while managing to be modern at the same time. “Free & Freaky,” for example, contains a statement about the war in Iraq: “My sister went...
...album is still distinctively RJD2, but in his latest release the turntable auteur moves farther away from his hip-hop roots and toward a more indie sound. On first listen, the mellow beats and serene vocals make “The Third Hand” seem like any other quasi-electronic album. But when you realize that RJD2 (born Ramble John Krohn) wrote, recorded, and produced the entire album by himself in his basement studio, it’s hard not to be impressed by the scope of the project or the seemingly limitless number of tracks making up each...
...reassuring that companies are responding to shoppers’ scruples. Though faddish and flat, lifestyle branding need not be condemned. We can continue to shop for whatever quasi-moral brand reflects our values, without imbuing the experience with undue significance. We wouldn’t want to mistake the checkout line for the road to virtue...