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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Arts In America

posted by on October 3 at 11:53 AM

1) “A pillar holding up a freeway overpass can strike Mr. de Botton’s sensitive eye as a sedentary, cheerful woman, while another seems likes a punctilious, nervous accountant.”

2) “A man who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s newborn daughter has filed a lawsuit demanding the reality TV star and baby girl return to California for paternity testing.”

3) “Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America is your guide to this vast, hitherto largely ignored field of waste landscapes.”

4) “A family judge ordered the singer arrested if he steps foot in Massachusetts after Bobby Brown failed to show for a hearing Monday over delinquent child support payments.”

5) “The dramatic and angular, titanium-clad structure derives its inspiration from the mountain range that surrounds it.”

6)”It was Monica who came across as the red-blooded predator, wailing to her girlfriends that the president wouldn’t go all the way.”

SUGGEST FOR TUESDAY OCTOBER 3


Scissor Sisters
A beloved cult band in the U.S., mainstream pop superstars in the UK, New York’s Scissor Sisters remain a pop-art miracle, producing high-concept postmodern pop songs that actually connect with the masses. It’s like Warhol’s soup cans endowed with actual nutritional value, and the band’s new album, Ta-Dah, is even better than their smashing debut. Live, Scissor Sisters bring it, tearing up the stage as if they’re the illegitimate freak baby produced by Elton John’s gang rape by the B-52s, Chic, and The Muppet Show. Go, and take extra panties to throw at lead singer/local-boy-made-great Jason “Jake Shears” Sellards. With DJ Sammy Jo and Small Sins. (The Showbox, 1426 First Ave, ticketswest.com. 8 pm, $30, all ages.) DAVID SCHMADER

A last word: In the tradition of William Arnold, I propose that criticism extend its field of attack beyond the arts, beyond politics, beyond the human social realm and confront, examine, and pass judgment on everything that moves, that is in creation. Even an unbrained paramecium, a unicellular organism, deserves good criticism. What is its style of swimming? How well or badly does it respond to vibrations, to heat, to light? Is its membrane outstanding or ordinary? Nothing in the universe must escape criticism.

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Charles:

Don't the commentators on the Slog already subject every damn thing to criticism?

thanks for pointing out Drosscapes. Ordered it immediately--looks really interesting.

Bill

Posted by bill | October 3, 2006 12:40 PM
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Broken link on the bit on Mr. de Botton. The BR tag is inside the A tag.

Posted by Fnarf | October 3, 2006 1:42 PM

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