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...installation of workers' paraphernalia, recently abandoned for a coffee break. Rollers, paint buckets, empty cups and cigarettes inconspicuously occupy a seemingly unfinished corner of the exhibition. Yet on further examination we realize this is the exhibition and that the scattered objects are all carefully-crafted replicas of tools and trash. Any other artists couldn't get away with such preciousness, but we can't help but admire and buy into Fischli and Weiss' jokey yet obsessive conviction. Their installation of a museum installation turns a common '80s critique of display mechanics into a charming and irresistible...
...party and its candidates are not allowed to direct outside groups to take action on their behalf--and that includes making ads. In addition, any ads paid for by these groups cannot explicitly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate, even if they praise or trash the candidate in other ways. As long as organizations obey these technicalities, they don't have to disclose their activities publicly and can spend an unlimited amount of money on campaigns...
Still, most readers of airport paperbacks, the kind of good, sturdy trash that will see you through four hours at O'Hare, would say of Westlake, "Sure, clever fellow, writes detective stories." He doesn't, however. In the long list of his 60-some novels, the author recalls no detectives, no "police procedurals," as cop stories are called in the trade, no lawyer novels. Why? Mildly, but definitely, Westlake gives a surprising answer: "Authority is doing fine. They don't need my help." Spy novels, then? "No, they were never right for me. Those guys are working...
...Macintoshes, the process is a little different. Similar temp files are sometimes created and placed in the "Rescued Items" folder of the trash...
...antinuance, antiheroism, antiexistentialist. With good humor and icy elegance, coupled with a genuine liking for his low-art or no-art sources in American vernacular, Lichtenstein was able to construct an art that approached real monumentality on the foundation of images that bien pensant taste regarded as trash...