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Recent group shows, including that landmark dud, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, have been full of this stuff -- by Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon and others. Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American cult of dumb popular therapeutics. In the 1980s, American neo-Expressionist artists shoved their excremental clods of paint at us with the self-evident pleasure that eight-year-olds take in dirty words. Patheticism is the conceptual version of this: no paint, just the words...
There was also Surrealism, which for many Catholic kids with artistic ambitions was the door out of orthodoxy. Kelley's work is larded with references to early eccentrics from the Surrealist pantheon, like the suicidal dandy Jacques Vache and the writers Raymond Roussel and the Comte de Lautreamont. On the other hand, his drawing is almost entirely derived from comic strips. Both confessional and obscure (why else would the museum have served up no fewer than 17 catalog essays to explicate it?), his work can nevertheless pack a flailing, provincial-surreal wallop -- now and then...
...Rollins had asserted that black ministers and Democratic workers were paid to keep black turnout low. Democrats, who have filed a lawsuit asking to invalidate the election, acknowledged that the Rollins deposition failed to provide a smoking gun but vowed to keep fighting. Said Democratic state committee chairman Raymond Lesniak: "I am not going to drop our investigation based on his bizarre explanation." Federal and state criminal probes are under way as well...
ADMINISTRATION: Alan J. Abrams, Catherine M. Barnes, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Marilyn V.S. McClenahan, Ann Morrell, Elliot Ravetz, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Marianne Sussman, Raymond Violini...
ADMINISTRATION: Alan J. Abrams, Catherine M. Barnes, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Marilyn V.S. McClenahan, Ann Morrell, Elliot Ravetz, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Marianne Sussman, Raymond Violini...