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...Yazbeck calls “entanglement,” is at the heart of the exhibit. Of course, in any well curated show the individual pieces mediate and enhance each other, but this process is traditionally not its central feature. The gallery brochure cautions against looking for a unifying theme: “To select the grid as a leitmotif for the show might exaggerate the relationship between art and architecture in Caracas. It might also exaggerate the relationship between the grid and Caracas, and the grid and art.” However, a geometric grid is an important aspect...
...experienced in our spectacle-soaked era of reality TV and celebrity worship, in which both ordinary citizens and the famous share center stage.” In lieu of an artist, a movement, or a time period as the orienting category for the exhibition, the unifying theme becomes central for understanding the rationale behind the selection of works. But while the title, introduction, and “Arena” suggest that the exhibition will focus on the gallery as a stage for the art and its patrons, the rest of the works cast the central ideas into confusion. After...
...nature than the machinations of the various ghouls on display. In that respect “Diary” simply shines. Due to the frequent bouts of narration that sometimes border on the overdramatic, it is almost impossible to leave the theater without understanding Romero’s central theme: in a modern time of crisis, people are more likely to stop and stare than try to help. This point is apt, and never more applicable than now, the era of YouTube, in which one man’s recorded misfortune becomes a complete stranger’s entertainment...
...Articles decrying the possibility that the superdelegates will decide the election are already legion, with the general theme being that the superdelegates should simply confirm the selection of the voters. But what would that mean, in specific terms? Should it be winner take all by state? Proportional by state? Or all the superdelegates simply to the candidate who won the most delegates? Or the winner of the popular vote? Or the winner among registered Democrats? And what about Florida and Michigan in these calculations? In short, either camp can make a “follow-the-voters” argument...
...carries the double-whammy genre curse of being a kind of western-horror movie. Can it beat out Anderson's parched epic or Reitman's new-family-values comedy? Its other competition: Michael Clayton, with George Clooney agonizing handsomely in a story about nasty business ethics (a favorite Academy theme, so the movie has a chance of winning), and Atonement, which fits the old tradition of quality, as a period romance in which beautiful people get horribly victimized...