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...annual town-wide 54-hr. trivia marathon. He hits trivia night in a Boston bar and kibitzes at a college quiz-bowl championship. He exhumes such trivia titans of yesteryear as John Timbs, the author of the 1856 best seller Things Not Generally Known, and Ruth Horowitz, the rebus-solving legend who dominated 20 straight episodes of Concentration in 1966. And of course Jennings gives us all the nerd-on-nerd action from his Jeopardy! stint, which he graciously chalks up to luck and good buzzer technique...
...baby one more time!” reads one, while another says, “Would whoever is writing Rohit everywhere please stop. Thanks, Rohit.” A third has a picture of a person rowing next to a picture of a face being punched—a rebus that clearly alludes to Chopra’s first name...
...protests this, pointing to the stories that underlie the conglomerations of things in his still lifes, which do indeed provide something to interpret. But was this what Hartley meant? In fact, no. He saw what is plainly true -- that in Harnett there is little imaginative dimension beyond the winsome, rebus-like narrative and the skill...
...appear in the show. There are shallow passages: the bay devoted to Russian Constructivism, Futurism and the Bauhaus, for instance, is mingy. Yet many excellent works of art proliferate, from Cubist collages to exquisite, large-scale paintings by Cy Twombly and some of Robert Rauschenberg's early combines, like Rebus, 1955; from James Rosenquist's room- size F-111, 1964-65, and a reassembly of some of the passionate, gaudy fragments from Claes Oldenburg's Store of 1961-62 to Brancusi's phallic bronze, Princess X, 1916, and one of the greatest of all Legers, The City...
...impassioned dreaming about what culturally disparate objects might have in common. It is not the result of a stamp-collecting mania, the desire to complete a series or make programmatic points about art history; nor is it designed to be "educational." Rather it sets up objects of connoisseurship, a rebus of delectation to be read...