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More mundane experiences are conveyed just as pierceingly. The ocean at sunset "shines silvery like a bolt of shot silk." A swimming pool on a hot day is "polar cold. After a while cold feels like a different kind of warmth, hypothermal hypnosis, a fugue state, sweet...
...dawn here: sunny Sunday mornings watching the albino gorilla in the zoo; early evenings in the stained-glass quiet of Santa Maria del Mar; late, late evenings with thrashing guitars at the penumbral nightclub KGB. Old women dance stately sardanes in front of the cathedral, and men in silk ties ride scooters to the office. Smiling pickpockets filch bank notes from the wallets of sightseers while placing roses in their hair...
Barcelona is and always has been a place of industry. In fact, for most of the 19th century it was the only industrial city in Spain, a sort of Mediterranean Manchester raised to wealth on cotton, silk and metal, presided over by a triumphant bourgeoisie and racked by working-class (especially anarchist) rebellion. Catalans are archetypally producers rather than dreamers, and they tend to pride themselves on what they call seny, common sense raised almost to the level of a theological virtue. They like you to know they have molta feina, a work overload. They do not see themselves...
Nevertheless, the outside world is already vying to shape it for them. Presidents and diplomats, businessmen and clergy shuttle in and out of the republics like traders from the caravans that once crisscrossed the great Silk Road to China. After U.S. Secretary of State James Baker made a whirlwind December visit, Washington became the first foreign nation to establish formal diplomatic ties with Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Neighboring Turkey and Iran have been the main competitors for influence, inviting the Central Asians to take part in their rival Black Sea and Caspian Sea cooperation zones. China has cautiously proposed joint-venture...
Beuys' art deals with similar issues. Some of the more memorable Beuys pieces in the exhibition were a silk screen that read "Kunst=Kapital," ("Art=Capital"), and a plastic bag that had printed on it a chart showing Beuys' view of an ideal political system. (Beuys made up a limited edition of these bags and distributed them on the street.) Like Warhol, Beuys created directly for "the people," forcing us to think about our society...