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Adding an academic component to the weekend'sfestivities, the guest speakers at Saturday's ArtsPanel debated the aesthetic merit and politicalsignificance of hip-hop music.
While he'll never have the subfle beauty of bands like Autechre or the technical virtuosity of Squarepusher, Moby succeeds resoundingly in making techno immediately accessible to an American audience, falling into the same category as the Chemical Brothers or the Prodigy. Unlike the one-trick-pony Chems, however, Moby...
The aesthetic conception of this production is intriguing. The "town" of Titipu has been transformed into "Titipu, Inc."--a software mega-corporation--and the noblemen of the town become identically-suited business executives who try to juggle their brief-cases, beepers and cellular phones to amusing effect. The "schoolgirl" chorus...
Foot for square foot, the current retrospective of Richard Diebenkorn's paintings at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art offers more aesthetic pleasure than any other show--at least of contemporary art--in town. Which isn't to say the Whitney has done the subject full justice...
One could also contend that the film's drawn-out weightiness, its sense of bleakness and numbing repetition, is a deliberate goal. After all, this is a film about the horrors of war and of persecution, and forcing the viewers to share in the deliberately dehumanizing environment forced upon the...