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Catherine Murphy’s “Cardboard Palette” (2001), which seems utterly different from the others, corresponds indirectly in that it is a trompe l’oeil residue of the painting process. This enlargement of the artist’s palette, with its convincing globs of paint and glistening highlights, morphs into a created landscape of its own equipped with ridges, valleys and plains...
...joke, a movie deal, a simple "was glimpsed confabbing with...") in his daily mix of gossip. Like a duke's dresser in the court of the Sun King, a press agent sees his client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist who'll sell it to the public. You'd plant or leak favorable items and try to suppress the scandalous ones. Publicity is the peddler's art, whose colors are rouge and noir, whose techniques...
...Saturday night, the duo demonstrated its power, as Brown drowned the Crimson’s strong start with treys. Even more than their might in the paint, the Tar Heels’ guards shut the offense down, disrupting the flow of Harvard’s game, dominating on the boards and forcing the Crimson’s leading scorers out of the picture for most of the game...
...these promotional tools are highly inaccurate and paint a skewed picture of Desirable Daughters. This is not a spicy bit of the subcontinent to be consumed at leisure and washed down with a Kingfisher. It is a story both of cultural acclimatization and assimilation and of the once-immigrant’s journey to rediscover the homeland and family abandoned long...
...inspiration. In “The Painter,” we again see Ashbery’s paradigmatic enterprise. The painter returns again and again to the sea for inspiration, emphasizing the changeableness of the sea as a metaphor for his art: “My soul, when I paint this next portrait / Let it be you who wrecks the canvas.” But in the end it is the process of “coming back” to the original germ of inspiration, of perpetual growth and regeneration, that is Ashbery’s true artistic journey...