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...works come from a singular collection amassed by Dutch philatelist Wim van der Bijl and his associate Ronald de Groen. As a stamp dealer participating in international fairs, the Utrecht-based Van der Bijl befriended a North Korean dealer who later switched from stamps to art. On a visit to Pyongyang in early 2003, Van der Bijl's contact offered him some souvenir landscapes from around Asia, but the Dutchman turned them down, expressing interest instead in the propaganda posters he had seen around the city. "But I was told those were not for export," recalls Van der Bijl...
...could be sure he wouldn't be the last. He didn't add sex to church music--he just stopped denying it was there. But he was more than a soul provider. Throughout his career, he explored a variety of genres, including jazz and country, imbuing each with his singular grit and charm. His 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music topped the charts for 14 weeks...
...director John Landis (The Blues Brothers) spends a week with Bennett as he organizes and executes one such blowout. En route to the airport, Bennett struggles to remember where he's going--Memphis, Tenn.--while an assistant preps him on the local vernacular. ("Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding a toy chainsaw. There are pretty showgirls...
...sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist who virtually disappeared after creating "Here," a singular, diamond-like piece of brilliance almost fifteen years ago. The funniest piece belongs to Joe Matt, who's autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general poor living with horrifying candor. The breakout "unknown" artist is David Heatley, who provides poignant and funny vignettes of his father in "Portrait...
...also the subject of major exhibitions in museums on both coasts, at MOCA and in New York City, where nearly the whole of the Guggenheim Museum has been given over to "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present." While that show focuses mainly on the same crucial years as MOCA's, it also looks back to earlier prototypes--Robert Rauschenberg's all-white paintings, Ad Reinhardt's all-black ones--and forward to more recent artists who have slyly adapted what Minimalism first offered...