Word: victorianism
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Cydylo's work is even less innovative. She seeks, as she says in her artist's statement, "specific allusions to Victorian constraint and more generalized, surreal indications of social interaction," which translates, it seems, to lots of cut-out dresses in black and white stuck on walls. Cheap Mattisse cut-out imitations, maybe, but little more...
...which may be the emotional default mode of a man who has buried good friends--Gianni Versace, Princess Diana--and lost others to AIDS. The Elton John who wrote Daniel, with its baffled yearning, is the one who loves the blue-tinted male nudes of John Dugdale, with their Victorian grief. The somber undercurrent is plain even in Andres Serrano's vivid crimson circle in a rectangle of bright yellow, which on closer inspection turns out to be a pool of blood...
...which may be the emotional default mode of a man who has buried good friends - Gianni Versace, Princess Diana - and lost others to AIDS. The Elton John who wrote "Daniel," with its baffled yearning, is the one who loves the blue-tinted male nudes of John Dugdale, with their Victorian grief. The somber undercurrent is plain even in Andres Serrano's vivid crimson circle in a rectangle of bright yellow, which on closer inspection turns out to be a pool of blood...
...Outside, Victorian Boston and the 21st century city meet. The Prudential Center and John Hancock Building tower above the town houses. The neighborhood offers plenty of dining options, from French bistro to French Cambodian. A few minutes' walk leads to some of Boston's better-known attractions: Copley Square, the Public Garden and Newbury Street with its fashionable shops. The Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Beacon Hill are a trolley ride away www.whitaker-house.com...
...Chicago, all the time, at the Windy City Bed-and-Breakfast Inn, a Victorian house built in 1886 in the Lincoln Park section of town. Owners Andy Shaw, a reporter for the local ABC-TV station, and Mary Shaw celebrate the city in every possible way, save handing out White Sox to their guests...