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...Robert Schimmel...
...Working blue" is what stand-up comedians call using jokes based on sex. Robert Schimmel, however, doesn't just work blue, he lives blue. The diminutive Schimmel's third comedy album, Unprotected, is a recording of his HBO special, and continues the sex-based theme of his previous two albums. But even if you've seen the special or seen Schimmel do his routine on the Conan O'Brien show, the hysterical routine is in no way diminished by repetition...
...catalog is somewhat hyperbolic--at one point Schimmel actually manages to compare a sculpture of eight naked effigies of Ray sprawling around in a masturbatory group grope to Rodin's Burghers of Calais--but Ray comes out of this show looking clever and sometimes more than that. His sculpture Fall '91, 1992, is a figure of a woman, 8 ft. high, in a red suit, done with slightly more detail and verisimilitude than a window dummy but with much less than complete lifelikeness. Its effect is to wrench your sense of scale out of kilter: far away, with no real...
...pond of contemporary art, as the belief in everlasting invention that was hard-wired into American expectations during the 1960s dwindles, small bass and medium carp are treated as potential Moby Dicks. Witness the California artist Charles Ray, 45, whose mid-career retrospective, curated by Paul Schimmel of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, recently opened at New York City's Whitney Museum of American...
...over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven jeweled palaces, and have fine objects, smells, tastes and sensations, yet they do not regard this as pleasure...[and] seek only to leave that place." Nirvana, the ultimately selfless Buddhist goal of nonbeing, is beyond paradise. Annemarie Schimmel, the great Western scholar of Islam, would agree. She wrote, "Once the journey to God is finished, the infinite journey in God begins...