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...urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have always put the food of their time in their still lifes, whether a jamon serrano by Velazquez or a baguette by Manet, and with Thiebaud the formal qualities of the paint now seem far more engaging than its reference to serial production...
Occasional cases involve outright judicial pique. California Superior Court Judge Bernard Kamins defied the logic of the state shield law, which bars judges from finding reporters in contempt for protecting a source, when Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times would not say how he got a secret report about the notorious videotaped police beating of Rodney King. In May, Kamins imposed a $1,500-a-day fine, later much reduced, claiming the punishment was not for contempt but for refusal to expose who violated Kamins' gag order...
...been in and out of court for five years to safeguard notes she made of her jailhouse meeting with an accused multiple murderer when she worked for the nearby Contra Costa Times. She says, "In interviews like that, I think, 'Do I really want to get myself involved?' " Serrano says whether or not he was chilled, his sources were. "My phone calls weren't returned...
...especially interesting that the works that have sparked this controversy have often been photographs or performance pieces (e.g. Mapplethorpe's and Serrano's photos and Annie Sprinkle's strip-shows). Here, the work not only depicts the idea of an event but is dependent on the actual occurrence of that event. The judge is not only deciding to promote the idea of urinating on a crucifix, but also to fund someone who actually did it. The artist and his or her work are morally implicated in the subject matter itself, further illustrating the impossibility of separating art from values...
...WHAT THOU EAT: IMAGES OF FOOD IN AMERICAN ART, New York Historical Society. From Mary Cassatt's 19th century vision of Five O'Clock Tea to Andres Serrano's 1984 photograph Meat Weapon, 70 works offering a rich diet of social history. Through March...