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...Kitaj began to draw from life with pastel, a medium particularly associated, for him, with Degas. The results fill one gallery of the Met's show, and they are works of distinction: a drawing like Marynka Smoking, 1980, is an homage to Degas's bathers that hits a fine balance between the energy of the black bounding line-wiry, emphatic-and the crusty soft bloom of light on the model's back and buttocks. Kitaj is a greedy, sexy draftsman, even when he is not drawing women. And his prehensile take on the world through drawing gives his fantasies...
Fogg Art Museum. Through April 2. "Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection." The concept for the show is embedded in its title: it speaks to the unique qualities of photographic processes, to the history of the medium, and to the history of the collection under the stewardship o the late Davis Pratt...
...aware that it's an image, calling attention to itself as an image, and allowing a certain degree of self consciousness which I find really, really exciting." Egoyan, however, is interested in moving away from video, as revealed by his reaction when questioned about his recurrent use of the medium. "I thought I'd never be asked that question again," he says, "but I'll answer it one last time: It's interesting, when you start using something, it then becomes your identifying mark. It becomes a sort of trap...
...computer networks are the hot new medium, and, like all those launched before, they rely on radical politics and sex as primal energy sources. In cyberspace there is an ever-expanding menu of places to visit and sexual material from which to choose. Some people roam the networks collecting massive amounts of what, in its more sophisticated versions, is termed erotica. Most of it, frankly, is smut...
Others use the medium as a pickup bar and a place to set up real assignations in the no-tell motels of America. The real cybersex conquistadores employ the networks to seduce distant lovers and keep a kind of score of their ``hits.'' Not everyone who does this is male, by the way. Indeed, recently on America Online, a woman with the handle ``Stolen Kisses'' became the object of many others' fancy after she wrote an article in Penthouse magazine titled ``Confessions of a Cyberslut.'' While it was once the case that women willing to engage in erotic give...