Word: soho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate of fusion of the enamel vary as well, the enamel colors run and waver into one another like wet watercolor, somewhat blurring the identity of the object they cover. This makes the enamel pieces slightly more abstract, fractionally less decipherable, than the patinated ones. Graves, whose SoHo studio contains one of the most formidable collections of Triffid-like indoor plants in Manhattan, recalls that the idea for doing sculpture in this way came to her a few years ago because "I had a cat that peed on a plant and killed it. I liked the plant too much...
James Surls' sculptures, at the Delahunty galleries in SoHo and TriBeCa (through April 14) may not be as complex and many-layered as Graves', but they have their own peculiar intensity about the stuff of the natural world - in his case, wood. Surls, 40, a muscular farm dweller from Splendora, Texas, who is sometimes mistaken for Willie Nelson, works with whole branches and roots, artfully pegged and jointed together so that their knotty, straight-from-the-ground appearance is kept even as they turn into parodies of the human figure. It is like the folksy sensibility that pops...
...SoHo. So there," the longtime motto of many Quad residents was laid to rest yesterday when South House was renamed Cabot House...
...Yuppie prefers Aruba, Fiji or some presumably undiscovered inn, "only to find the dining room packed with M.B.A.s ordering cassis sherbet for dessert." Favored movies include Annie Hall (in fact, anything by Woody Allen), Casablanca (because of the ceiling fans), An Unmarried Woman (excellent footage of SoHo lofts) and Chariots of Fire (crucial emphasis on athletics, competitiveness and expensive clothing...
Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (Sire). SoHo soul and uptown rhythm: nobody mixes it up better...