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...much more worldly atmosphere of the 1980s. She is (rightly) seen as both serious and popular, no easy feat. That a colleague of such fiercely reductive artists as Brice Marden, Barry Le Va and Richard Serra, formed in the hot arguments and unheated lofts of a pre-yuppie SoHo, would emerge by the mid-'80s as a corporate muralist, decorating the Volvo headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden, and the dining room of the AT&T Building in Manhattan with her fluent, electric and inexorably charming images of landscape and sea--could any development be less predictable...
Glass and Wilson began as cultural rebels, "downtown" artists in New York City's bohemian SoHo district who shared a radical aesthetic. Linked not only by ideals but by the cultural establishment's chilly rejection of their efforts, they and several like-minded colleagues forged a style that prized content over form, emotion over intellectuality; gradually, they won over wider audiences with the uncompromising excellence of their visions. Today Glass's relentless, repetitious music has become gentler, smoother, subtler and more flexible. Wilson's stream-of-consciousness stage pictures, which are intended to evoke emotional states rather than further conventional...
...some startling stage pictures, including an earthquake that sunders the stage and a dazzling meteor shower. Just as the West German city of Darmstadt nurtured the post-Webern twelve-tone composers after World War II, so has the Brooklyn Academy offered a safe haven for the minimalists from SoHo...
...politics of getting in are ever-changing. Of course, every would-be Don Johnson figures he knows the secret to success. Sometimes he's right; more often, he's not. The propects fall into two general categories: those who attempt to stand out with outrageous garb and Soho hair, and those who try to blend in with what they consider the "cool norm...
...time, Dolby also has been producing a much-touted band from Scotland with the world's wimpiest name, Prefab Sprout. Contrary to popular belief, this group, headed by the brothers McAloon, did not pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...