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...staff of 360 also reviews several books, movies and albums--including a review by Lynn Floyd '97 of The Venetian's Wife, the latest book by author Nick Bantock of Griffin and Sabine fame and Isenberg's critique of "Women for Women 2," a complilation album to raise money for breast cancer research and awareness, which was adapted from an article in Fifteen Minutes...
These shows make it clear that the once accepted view of Tiepolo was wrong. It said, in effect, that he was a slightly suspect virtuoso--the last of what had been, a fizzing Catherine wheel of talent at the end of the long display of Venetian genius that ran from the Bellinis to Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. Disapproval of Tiepolo was high-toned; his work did not accord with the moralizing grandeur of a later Neoclassicism, still less with the assumptions of Realism. It was rococo, compliant, theatrical and somehow frivolous. It celebrated a city in deep decline and praised...
Tiepolo loved such ironies and reversals; they were part of the code of his imagination. Out of the traditions of Venetian painting, he taught himself to be one of the most audacious space composers in the history of art, capable of dissolving a solid ceiling into light and vapor. But the distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern, even though there isn't an artist today who could begin to rival that virtuosity...
...been linked with since just before her split from Lyle Lovett to six, not counting the really nutty stories. Let's see: ETHAN HAWKE (they danced), RICHARD GERE (they walked), BRAD PITT (no reason; it just made a good read), DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (a former flame rekindled) and a Venetian gondolier. Goodness, what has Scott Bakula's publicist been doing...
...VIOLENCE? WE GOT 'EM FOR you, and in the King's English. As every teacher knows, kids won't touch Shakespeare unless he is made all hot and gaudy and R-rated. So let's get with it, moviemakers! If the Bard writes about a Moor who loves a Venetian lady, show them naked in bed together, and have Iago woo Emilia from the rear. If the subject is villainy on a royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would...