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...most-talked-about art of the past decade or so was shiny, shrill and brazen. Damien Hirst's diamond-crusted skull, Jeff Koons' big mirror-steel bling things, Richard Prince's slutty-nurse paintings: they were all the swaggering output of a boom time. There were plenty of artists working in a different key, but no one could claim that anguished moralists were the representative figures...
...sheet of paper, not successive sheets, so that the smudges and wipes survive from frame to frame and the images don't so much move as morph forward with bumps and stutters, the way they do in Claymation. Nothing could be further removed from the diamonds and stainless steel of the boom years. It's a style, poignant in its very crudeness, that by its simplicity confers instant legitimacy on Kentridge and his work...
...abject snippets from the 1937 trial transcript of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the multitude of old Bolshevik leaders devoured by Stalin. It's too soon to know how Kentridge will connect all this into a coherent production. But there won't be a diamond-crusted skull or a mirror-steel bling thing anywhere near it. That you can count...
...iPhone, Blackberry or T-Mobile Sidekick plays in the facilitation of the occasional Thursday night tryst here in the 02138. But Ladies, ladies, listen to a man. Sometimes you’re hanging out just pongin’ in Mather, or kickin’ it old school with a Steel Reserve from Louie’s private stock, or hitting up the gym bench pressin’ like a bandit, (kicked it up to 90lbs this week, no big deal) and you get that text from a special someone we all know so well: “yoyoyo whut...
...medium-security prisons there are no locked doors, steel grills or gun towers. Since Madoff admitted his "big lie" to his sons and the FBI and was subsequently arrested on Dec. 11, he has been confined to his $7 million Manhattan penthouse. (See pictures of expensive things that money...