Word: sleight
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...digital sleight of hand, few artists ply their trade more slyly than Yasumasa Morimura. Inserting his image into famous works, this Osaka-based master becomes the languorous courtesan (and her maid) in Manet's Olympia or--how could he resist?--the Mona Lisa. Combining photography, painting and computer manipulation, each piece is a wicked homage, turning art history into a gilded vanity mirror. In his new show at New York City's Luhring Augustine Gallery, the farce is lavish and precise, as Morimura continues his wry, gender-bending ways...
...which were lauded with cries and sky-jabs from the crowd. This is, after all, the stuff that won them love when they were still underground. Felix's love for latin fusion, jazz rock and New York house were all there, slapped with Simon Face of Stone's sleight-of-hand technical leaning and wedged in everywhere with disco, ragga, R&B, Chicago house, techno, jungle, flamenco, breakbeat, punk, garage and all their lovely bastard crossbreeds. It was a musical food fight at an all-you-can-eat: felt beats and loud bass pelted the idolating house fiends sore...
...waits until the last minute is another matter, but that's the conceit director Garry Marshall obliges us to accept, and it's no more strained than the premise Roberts and Gere worked so successfully for him in Pretty Woman. They're all good at diversionary sleight-of-hand. Roberts' tentativeness is charming; she knows what she's doing, fights it, then succumbs with sad but perky resignation. Gere puts a nice flaky edge on his incisiveness. The supporting cast, led by Joan Cusack, surrounds them with funny common sense that doesn't fully assert itself until the happy...
...What I do really is sleight of hand," he says. "Making it look like you've got 10 pounds in a five-pound...
...burned in mass graves, bodies without genitals or heads. Welcome to the Balkans. The press kit implied that Bosnian Muslims, the focus of Serbian rage at the time, had done this filthy work. But who could identify killers or victims? Everyone has a death archive; everyone performs a moral sleight of hand: "We're not doing it! And even if we are doing it, you should see what they did to us." In this jurisdiction, "Guilty, with an explanation" equals functional innocence...