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...Michelangelo himself, growing old (he would die at 89 in 1564) but still active: there are no fewer than 12 works by him in this show. Eccentric as this may sound, the most beautiful of them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving--whittling, really--of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 1-ft.-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Pieta. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...
...Michelangelo himself, growing old (he would die at 89 in 1564) but still active: there are no fewer than 12 works by him in this show. Eccentric as this may sound, the most beautiful of them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving - whittling, really - of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 30-cm-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Piet?. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...
...made a short film of his future first wife Katharine, positioning her nude body in complicated ways for the camera. The film is lost, but Sheeler printed 10 frames separately as photographs. They are unforgettable. Folded into shelves of plump tissue, her limbs cutting across her torso like wide interstates, Katharine is a nude unlike any other in photography until Lee Friedlander's contorted women of the 1970s. It's not enough to say these pictures are experiments in form, though the ways in which Sheeler had in mind the broken crockery of Cubism or the elastic women of Matisse...
...skirts in cotton or gauze and scarves adorned with coins tied low on their hips. After breathing exercises, the students are instructed to twist their hips slowly in a figure 8 while extending their arms to the side. Later come side-to-side hip sways, pelvic thrusts and serpentine torso waves done to a rhythmic drumbeat. Occasionally classes are accompanied by live percussionists, and women play finger cymbals called zills, though CDs with Middle Eastern music and singing are often used...
...meantime, it won't hurt to check out the new ergonomic seats. Also, make sure your bike fits your torso. Leaning over all the time increases the pressure on your perineum. (Women have perinea too, and some female cyclists have reported genitourinary problems.) Remember to lift yourself off the seat now and again to take the pressure off the perineum. Or try switching to a recumbent bike. Whatever you do, don't dismiss genital numbness. Your body could be trying to tell you something important...