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...Modern Times" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Crumb's brilliant, savage but also truly comic strips earned him immediate cult status when they were first published in the U.S. in the late '60s. His creations suited the mood of the time - an ebullient rejection of the preceding conformist, suburban decades. He drew and wrote whatever came into his mind, including fantasies of bizarre sex and physical disintegration, delineated with meticulous strokes of the pen. Visitors to the Whitechapel show, which runs until May 22, can trace the genesis of Fritz the Cat in pencil frames, interspersed with doodles...
...faces. Huizenga concentrates less on the particular details of a panel in favor of its overall design. He also has no fear of actionless panels of environment to pace out the story. Even better, sometimes, if you look twice at a panel of a car driving in front a suburban home for example, you discover the toddler crossing the street, in possible mortal jeopardy...
...among artists who had come to light in the early, now degraded part of the decade, there are some who quietly pursued serious careers that have brought them into the present with their reputations intact. Eric Fischl first drew attention in the early '80s with weirdly charged scenes of suburban life that parted the curtain on things, generally meaning sex, that three centuries of genre painting had kept tucked away. He continues to do work you want to see. But he fears that another bubble is rising in the art market, in which prices are climbing fast again and auctions...
...living on the extremes of viability makes desert creatures surprisingly sensitive to disturbance. Golf courses and suburban lawns soak up sparse groundwater, and indigenous species suffer from the earthmovers, off-road vehicles and domestic pets that new arrivals bring. In California's Coachella Valley in the Mojave Desert, each of the 110 golf courses uses some 750,000 gallons of water a day. "Deserts have fragile ecosystems, and they are being threatened by this development," says William Presch, director of the desert-studies program at California State University at Fullerton. "If we don't understand how the desert environment works...
Smith, blessed by what can only be called grace, saw that terrifying early morning in suburban Atlanta as one of those opportunities. Warren writes in that chapter, "Great opportunities to serve never last long. They pass quickly, sometimes never to return again. You may only get one chance to serve that person, so take advantage of that moment." Smith did. By her account, she talked to him, made breakfast, told him her story, listened. And as she revealed her openness to grace, so, apparently, did he. "He said he thought I was an angel sent from God and that...