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...work around his schedule at TIME, Associate Editor J.D. Reed and his wife Christine divided chores on Exposure (Soho Press), a murder mystery set in the world of soccer. Christine wrote, while her husband edited and supplied sports expertise. Says he: "I also provided lots of pats on the back, and coffee...
However, this book is more than just an intro to the coldwater SoHo loft that is Frank Stella's mind. Stella has assigned himself the second task of uncovering the origin of the "crisis of abstraction," the growing consensus even among practitioners that contemporary abstract art bores the hell out of people. Stella attributes this yawning chasm between potential and performance to the flat, two-dimensional quality of the abstraction of the 1970s and '80s, heir to the tradition of highly colored "decorative" paintings exemplified by Delacroix and Malevich...
Laughter is more appropriate -- the laughter of recognition, not of condescension. Byrne has the joy of a SoHo sophisticate discovering that there are other beguiling life-forms out there, and True Stories communicates that pleasure as ripely as any film made by New Yorkers in Texas since Bonnie and Clyde. A lip-sync contest, to the Talking Heads' bar-brawl rave-up Wild Wild Life, is awhirl with amateur energy. For 15 seconds or so each, a dozen locals -- Louis the Country Bachelor (John Goodman), his pal Ramon (Tito Larriva) and even Byrne in a gigolo's mustache, but also...
...elemental, manic drive, David Byrne is not alone. In fact, Byrne is only the most visible member of a movement that has recently vacated its artist-loft digs in lower Manhattan and joyfully taken up residence right next door to the American mainstream. Call it a celebration of specialness: SoHo has come uptown...
...Modern Choreographer Merce Cunningham have worked together frequently. Nor is it unheard-of for a rock musician to hang out with the classical avant-garde: Frank Zappa, formerly of the Mothers of Invention, has had his serious chamber works conducted by no less than Pierre Boulez. What distinguishes the SoHo artists is the familiar ease with which their works play off one another...