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...Business of Art "He's given no evidence up to now that he knows what to do with a brush ..." Thank you, Richard Lacayo, for the excellent article on Damien Hirst and his factory "art" [Sept. 15]. More than $7o0,000 for "spin paintings" manufactured by an army of assistants? Lacayo's term "product lines on canvas" says it all. Oddly, however closely I look at the photo of Hirst's new work The Golden Calf, I can't quite see the heap of gold-plated manure beneath the pickled bull. Kevin Wooldridge, London...
Time has been least kind to Grey's Anatomy spin-off Practice (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.). After nine tepid episodes (and a subpar season of Grey's) last year, there's less reason than ever to care about the dramedies and quirky cases of sexy doctors at a ritzy "wellness center," and the return episode trudges along like a 44-min. chore (even if there is some resonance, in this pregnancy-besotted election season, to the reproductive-medicine subject matter...
...Torie Clarke, the Pentagon's communications chief during the early years of George W. Bush's presidency and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld, published in February 2006 Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game. Clarke, who also served at one time as McCain's press secretary, argues in the book that sugarcoating bad policy doesn't make the policy any better. "A bad story is still a bad story...
...London - figurative work in a dark Bacon-ish key. He's still finding out what kind of painter he is. He's even begun to think of his mass-produced paintings as a means he used to avoid becoming a painter of another kind. "The spot paintings, the spin paintings," he says, "they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas...
...Obama, after all, had stared down Papa Bear. And in the No-Spin Zone, that's the greatest leadership credential...