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...artist. In the past, Jones found her home in the sultry intersection of country and jazz, but unfortunately her first forays into the realm of rock meet with varied success on “The Fall,” where at certain points she completely drowns her silken voice in awkwardly abrasive electronic chords...
...substrate for the painted work. The contrasting pair that opens the exhibition juxtaposes a Titian canvas with an earlier Bellini panel of a similar scene, a virgin surrounded by saints. The smooth surface of the polished wood panel and the carefully hidden brushstrokes give the Bellini its placidly silken, liquid surface, and even its painted and columned frame recalls the Italian High Renaissance; but the rougher surface of the canvas seems to free Titian to make visible his brushwork and lend his gilt-framed work a subdued and textured frisson. Titian dominates this first room of the exhibition...
...least one crew member hasn't jumped ship: Jarreau's voice is as stunning, silken and staggering as ever, with a range and agility that would be impressive at any age. And that's good news for the thousands of Asian fans who are finally getting the chance to see him live. Although he has performed in Japan in the past, Jarreau is currently touring the region for the first time, calling at six cities including Bangkok and Beijing (where he expects to "pick up some Olympic hangover and pick them up a bit"). He is co-headlining the shows...
...world, senseless purchases weren’t about ordering bagged lunches and checking up on nutrition facts; they were about proving how much better and more elegant we were than everyone else. Whither went our intricately carved wooden chairs? Our tables crafted from aged, solid oak covered in soft, silken tablecloths? Our bow-tied and jacketed service staff? The degrading and dishonorable concept of self-service—requesting our own meals on high-tech kiosks, for example—had as large a place in this elegant world of silk and mahogany as women did on the student side...
...stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang"). If Andrew's silken surfaces seduce the eye, Liu Xiao Xian's My Other Lives #7, 2000, positively winks at us. Here the Beijing-born artist has taken the twin images of a 19th century stereograph and replaced one of the faces with his own, peeping out improbably from the garb of a parasol...