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...What I try to do with my work in general is keep the possible associations as wide open as possible," she adds as she gazes at the second part of her exhibit, "so that the viewer[s] can bring their own experiences to the piece." With a smile, she comments that one viewer of the next piece, a tangled-looking work dubbed Exhalation, was quick to pick up on its "definite influence of Dr. Seuss-aesthetic." Several good-sized hollow glass letters dangle between the ceiling and a podium, suspended by clear fishing wire and connected by flesh-colored rubber...
...Deng shake with real anger only when he talked about the Vietnamese, whom he saw as impudent. When Deng complained bitterly to Vice President Walter Mondale about the "ungrateful" Vietnamese, Mondale wryly noted, "We have had some experience of our own with the Vietnamese." Deng did not even smile...
...first film in four years as a "21st century noir horror film." It has a battered suitcase of references to old Hollywood film noir, the requisite gore for a scare show and, in the spooky presence of Robert Blake--with his pancake white face, shaved eyebrows and sickly smile--an eldritch harbinger of death like the dwarf in Twin Peaks. So whatever that critic may think, Lost Highway isn't refuse. But it ain't revelation either. What's missing is the shock...
Even in a collection composed of images ranging from landscapes to intense, personal portraits, the clarity and beauty of the exhibition's title unify the photographs. A surprise waits in every image, one that neither shocks nor disturbs, but instead brings a smile to your face. This is rare among modern artists, and it may be that viewers are finally ready for an end to the artificiality and abstraction of modernity...
...first melody made people smile, not just because of its unwitting affinity to the orchestral part of Carmen's "Habanera," but also because the piano sounded fantastic. The Steinway trilled and sang under Haefliger's fingers, projecting pianissimo lines that were clear no matter how loudly the orchestra played. But the lowest registers were almost over-responsive: Haefliger's loudest octaves sounded like they belonged in Liszt or Busoni, not Mozart...