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...Courbet. What the French learned from their Spanish predecessors was a gritty realism previously unknown in France's academic art world - ordinary subjects like beggars and street urchins, freely painted, with color used to sculpt volume and the daring use of black. One caveat: the curators have chosen to display the show's 115 paintings and drawings in chronological order, Spaniards first, French second: often, several galleries separate the paintings the show intends to compare. But it's worth the back-and-forth legwork to see such superb pairings as Velázquez's 1636-37 full-length portrait...
Throughout the season, Corriero’s quick hands, ability to stay on the puck and fancy moves were on display...
...raucous energy couldn’t bury a profound vulnerability that offset the testosterone on display. There was something endearing (and surreal) about these grown men—backed by DJ Mr. Dibbs, who could probably shatter a turntable with his forehead—pouring out their hearts in the most confrontational, hoarse-throated manner possible. Lyrical prowess and mic charisma became tools for assuaging fears of dull futures, wrecked love and artistic failure. That songs such as Atmosphere’s tinkling piano ballad “Abusing of the Rib” and the startlingly mundane anthem...
Large television screens on each side of another O’Brien truck showed videos of a bull being dragged to the ground at a rodeo. An L.E.D. display on its front read “Shame on Mitt Romney,” while a placard saying “Cruelty is not the Olympic spirit” was affixed between its tail lights...
...pieces on display range from luxury items such as jewelry as well as ordinary objects such as colorful textiles that, according to the exhibition’s website, are telling not only for their decorative function but also because they were woven by Byzantine women...