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...songs ... And I recorded 43 songs. That's a bunch of songs," she says, giggling. "Literally, songs that no one else in the world would understand or like--I still did 'em. Stuff with no choruses in them, over jazz beats, whatever. I completely was"--lengthy pause--"an artist. If you listen to the album, you'll see that I've evolved into a woman...
...When she turned in the original material for her fourth album to her record label, Capitol, there were polite nods and a sales prediction--"Goldish," recalls Phair, or around 500,000 copies. In the cruel calculus of the record business--in which everyone gets his cut before the artist and a majority of singers owe their record companies money--gold barely pays the bills. "It takes me a long time to make a record, and I burn through a lot of cash and a lot of energy," says Phair. "To hear that it'll be [only] O.K. successful brings...
DIED. DOUG MICHELS, 59, avant-garde artist and architect who co-founded the San Francisco-based "underground architecture" studio Ant Farm; in a fall while climbing alone to a whale observation point; near Sydney, Australia. In 1974, he installed the famed "Cadillac Ranch" in Amarillo, Texas. The outdoor sculpture's 10 Cadillacs, thrust nose-down in the ground, were taken to represent the decline of U.S. industry...
...with dozens of movie and video screens, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and other objets d'art - a swirling kaleidoscope of color and sound. Anticipating by six months France's 2004 cultural "Year of China," the exhibit offers an overview of contemporary Chinese art, with nearly 100 works by 50 artists, ages 28 to 48, along with a spectacular 80-sq-m scale model of Beijing and a fascinating French collection of Maoist kitsch. While there's nothing truly groundbreaking in sight, this officially sanctioned show leaves no doubt about how far mainstream Chinese art has come since the days...
...easy being associated forever with a single moment in time. Consider Bridget Riley. When the British artist's mind-bending black-and-white paintings were exhibited in New York in 1965, the fashion world seized on her style and sprayed deformed checkerboard patterns all over ties, dresses and lamp shades. It was hip to be Op, as Riley's approach was called, but she complained her work had been "vulgarized in the rag trade." Another artist might have abandoned the style, but Riley never veered from her path and soon transcended the merely trendy. Today...