Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...organization that used to be occassionally publish a so-called humor magazine], all the seniors go to L.A. or New York and go get writing jobs. And when you're surrounded by that, it's a different atmosphere. You think, "Oh, these guys do survive. They're still living, even though they're not I-banking...
...year, when they finally make these films, they don't invite anybody! You never hear about the films, and then you have to know somebody to get a ticket...it's as if they're saying "We're not going to let you make films, and we're not even going to let you see the films other people have made...
...already accomplished style of abstract expressionism. As a respected contemporary of such American masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he had won numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Ford Foundation grant and the prestigious Prix de Rome. Still, something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired by the banal, ordinary objects in his apartment and studio, Guston began...
...almost universally reviled. Co-curator Harry Cooper writes, "Philip Guston's exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in New York in 1970 was the art world's last true, unpackaged sensation." Dramatic statements aside, it truly was something of a sensation, and a life-altering event-as Guston recounted in 1980, even long-time friends stopped speaking to him in the aftermath of the fateful show. "The general feeling was, 'Aww Phil, what did you have to go and do that for?'," he recalls evenly...
...ominously reminiscent of Auschwitz's human ovens. But Guston pokes fun at these self-absorbed, self-indulgent figures too: "fascinated by the idea of evil," as he puts it, he finally exorcises the terror of the KKK by appropriating their hoods, by making them seem ridiculous, childish-and yes, even likeable...