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...criticism surrounding Todd Solondz’s equally loved and hated film Happiness (1998), was his employment of fringe subject matter which included rape, pedophilia, murder and masturbation, and of characters whose misery and deplorableness are put on display for the viewing public’s pleasure and disgust. With Solondz’s latest effort Storytelling, the indie director is more concerned with responding to that reproach with his own lashes and cheeky irony, rather than building upon his incisive look at suburbia in Happiness. Instead of investing time and injecting complexity into his characters as in past works...
Once again, the Crimson came back with a far more impressive display. It began with Harvard on a four-on-three power play and ended with the Crimson having a five-on-four advantage...
...reckon with the process and its imperfections. Until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 created a small city's worth of grieving families and the government established an unprecedented fund to compensate them, the mathematics of loss was a little-known science. Now the process is on garish display, and it is tempting to avert the eyes...
...Answer: Probably not.) Combining black and white, color, reality, fantasy, explication and interpretation, it has something for everyone. Of interest to New York City residents, all of the original art for this book and DC's "9-11" (which are considered a two-volume set), has been put on display at the Exit Art gallery (548 Broadway, at Prince St.) It may travel, and the art will eventually be auctioned off with proceeds going to 9/11 charities. There is also a website that includes unpublished contributions...
...that's just the problem with the Palais de Tokyo's approach: it's fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three TV sets, a visual pun on the notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between...