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...quintessential Miro -- a field divided roughly in half by a rambling horizon line, the earth featureless and red, the sky equally featureless (except for the ceremonious care with which the paint has been deposited) and blue. In the sky hangs a thing like a bladder, with a thin black line dangling to Earth: the ''flower.'' The ''rabbit,'' a sort of yellow Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing else. It ought to be ridiculous, but it is profoundly haunting, full of an indefinable melancholy provoked by what Miro identified as the main motif of his work: ''tiny forms...
...There will no doubt be more such headlines in the coming days. The sport is built upon the emotion of watching someone do what Riccò did on Sunday. Two-thirds of the way through the torturous ninth stage, the rail-thin blond, who had emerged with a second-place finish in last month's Giro d'Italia, burst from the pack on the category-one Col d'Aspin ascent, blowing past opponents in a stunning display of power...
Commenters tend to respond with surprise--they're shocked, shocked!--when people call them on being not nice. In their social universe, this kind of rhetorical slap-fighting is just how you do business, and anybody who feels otherwise is thin-skinned and humorless. As lame and self-serving as this excuse is, we can learn something from taking it at face value. Maybe commenters are just on one side of a cultural disconnect between two incompatible ideas of what the social conventions of the Internet should be. One is based on the standards of real-world, off-line politeness...
...convention delegates. A story on Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal reminds us that plenty of Clinton backers are not yet happy campers. They want to nominate their candidate as the world watches and cast 1,600 votes as a powerful reminder that Obama's victory was floss-thin...
...anything, at a couple of the locations - the ones on the Brooklyn and lower Manhattan waterfronts - The Waterfalls are almost comically thin and humble. This would be in keeping with Eliasson's general practice. Even for a project like this one, in which he's operating within (and undercutting) the Baroque tradition of massively theatrical artworks, the ordinary mechanical workings of his spectacle - the exposed steel framework, the visible spill trays at the top - are deliberately exposed to view. To borrow Frank Stella's phrase, "What you see is what you see." Which, of course, even when Stella said...