Word: realisms
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...defusers alone in a city without lights. Woven through such flights are colorful threads of historical arcana: richly researched evocations of the "desert Englishmen" of the '30s, lilting allusions to Herodotus and Kipling, catalogs of the winds that blow across the sands. The result is a realism that could not be more magical: "I carried Katharine Clifton into the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds...
...Armed with a Speed Graphic, his car radio permanently tuned to the police band, he roamed the streets photographing urban life and death as he found it. Eventually his pictures made their way from tabloids to museums. A movie based on him might have been a marvel of period realism or a sharp study of the primitive as aspiring artist. Instead Howard Franklin's film involves him in a stupefying tale of government-Mafia corruption and a feckless romance with a nightclub owner (Barbara Hershey). It is, very likely, the year's most stupidly wasted opportunity...
...fourth track, "Shuffle It All," with its swelling Hammond organ a la The Black Crowes, captures the resigned realism of a life of loneliness and impermanence, such as a young Jeff Isbell must have experienced on his way from smalltown Indiana to the rock underworld of Los Angeles...
...work of Jusepe de Ribera, whose masterpieces are displayed in a new exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the very antitype of the great Matisse show 30 blocks downtown at the Museum of Modern Art: darkness, Baroque realism and a relentless admixture of piety with sadistic guignol, all done at the highest level of skill and conviction. Surprisingly, given the enormous reputation Ribera had in his day, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever held in America, or for that matter in Europe (it was previously shown in Naples and Madrid...
...Master of Baroque Realism...