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Later, after night has fallen, a naked lady lies back in one of the clifftop hot tubs. The darkness is lighted by candles, the stillness scented with incense. Beside her, a photographer and a chef from San Francisco are discussing the novels of Tanizaki. "The cuticles are very important," the...
The same morning, at an Indian burial site in Cartersville, Ga., 75 believers gathered. They sat in small groups and burned incense and sage. One man produced a tortoiseshell on which he arranged some amethysts. As the darkness dissolved, yoga practitioners began a series of alarming birdlike maneuvers.
Some exhibitions might have been better as books, and "Berlinart 1961-1987," the Museum of Modern Art's big summer show that closes Sept. 8 in New York City and reopens Oct. 22 in San Francisco, is one. Its senior curator, Kynaston McShine, took on a large subject, perhaps too...
When artists are not rallying the well-heeled troops, they are struggling to transform their feelings about AIDS and its sufferers into art. Theater has already produced a shelf of contentious dramatic literature: Hoffman's As Is, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex, Robert Chesley...
Unfortunately, Rusty is also given to occasional delusions of Dostoyevsky. "I have seen so much," he begins at one point, brooding over his liaison with the murder victim, and then recites a litany of misery, concluding, "The lights go out, grow dim. And a soul can stand only so much...