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...Greenbergs are deciding against traditional warm-weather retirement havens like Florida, Arizona and Southern California and are sticking closer to home. Realtors across the country say they are seeing 25% to 50% more retirees stay in or near their hometown, compared with five years ago. In fact, notes Kevin Roth, senior economist with the National Association of Realtors in Washington, "home buyers over the age of 65 move an average of just 15 miles away from their current abodes...
...chocolate in the shape of lion? What if the work of art changes with time and will eventually disintergrate entirely? And how can food, such an ordinary part of life, be transformed into something sacred? These are only some of the questioned posed by Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth and Sonja Alhauser, a rollicking, probing and hilarious exhibit at the Bush-Reisinger Museum. This food-focused extravaganza destroys any of our preconceived notions about the nature of art, time and materiality, and is a refreshing example of how powerful innovative...
...three artists exhibited in Eat Art, Dieter Roth is the most ironic and perhaps the most macabre. Bertolt Brecht’s idea that we only eat in order to excrete is applicable to his work. The juxtaposition of a lion made out of chocolate (which he calls a self portrait) and bunny made out of excrement reveals that eating is just part of the digestive process. Ironically, after 30 years of decomposition, the chocolate lion is more revolting than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does...
...Small Sunset, 1972” continues to mock former paradigms of art. What appears to be a beautiful sunset is actually a slice of a large sausage. What looks like the sun’s rays is actually the sausage’s grease. Roth is questioning accepted ideas of beauty by demonstrating that an old sausage can capture the essence of a sunset just as beautifully as paint can. “Birdplate 3, 1966,” which is made out of chocolate eggs and candy, is oddly powerful with its thick texture and frenetic markings...
...Dieter Roth...