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...ways in which East and West now meet each other. In response, readers shared tales of travel, thoughts on ideas that changed the world and meditations about noodles Paul Smethurst's essay "A revolutionary from Venice" [Aug. 7] pointed out that, before Marco Polo shed some light on the subject, the Western (Christian) world's geographic and political center had been Jerusalem. That reminded me of Copernicus' famous assertion that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the heavens. Both discoveries were important milestones for mankind because they led us to embrace hitherto unimaginable and unfathomable ideas. James...
Befriended by Morley and entrusted with his home archive, Annear began searching for a connecting thread. Having turned 20th century photography upside down in her 2000 show "World Without End," this assiduous sleuth found her subject. Whether photographing the then-unknown Twiggy on a London street, or a ghostly skeleton in a Tasmanian museum 30 years later, Morley's instinct has been the same. Now in its final weeks at the AGNSW, Annear's survey show turns a celebrity shooter into a more curious gatherer of found objects...
...Exhibit A has always been Keeler. Brought by Cook to publicize a film project, she arrived at Morley's studio less hardened and more na?ve than the photographer was expecting, and the impression rings true of the man himself. In the decades since, Morley has rarely searched for a subject, finding fascination in what is close at hand. His insular gaze could be a legacy of the war years, when he and his family were interned by the Japanese...
...history of pop music, there is exactly one good song about celebrity: Fame, which required the combined effort of David Bowie and John Lennon to be brought into existence. Otherwise, from the Rolling Stones' Star Star to Britney Spears' Lucky, the subject has been a disaster for any artist who comes near it. It's not that people aren't interested in celebrity--Mary Hart's summerhouse is a monument to the contrary--but that the pleasures it provides are voyeuristic, defined completely by the distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance...
...magic on two tracks, Upgrade U and Deja Vu, and it's not the fact that they go back to the well so explicitly that lames the songs. It's the rapping. Jay-Z is the best M.C. on the planet, but like every other rapper, he has no subject other than his own glorification. Here he steps into the middle of fast-paced love songs to wink at real life: "Rumors you on the verge of a new merge/ Cause that rock on ya finger is like a tumor." It's an unwelcome distraction...