tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10075711840923910532024-02-14T03:19:10.584-08:00Grace Graupe-Pillard Movie/Art Reviews My personal meditations/reflections on films and occasional art exhibitions.grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-36872726850418124222023-12-31T17:01:00.000-08:002023-12-31T17:01:11.916-08:00BARBIE 12/31/23<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZBsmRRaCD9loC1agLetttSNvZ1ohj9aK7lU3oxVjXB8ksp1cCcOiv1wZkT8uUdQRga6gfVXfPT9Ti62Vs7BqcQ_9wPMIPdhDZ7LWeDfaGGOJk6crnUVzfa1ba8OIthVQX87E7n0YalA-_rmLQWEBoWZkVJXQXz_MIO5fQWionB7Fzk9bMCmo9NAaw3rs/s300/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZBsmRRaCD9loC1agLetttSNvZ1ohj9aK7lU3oxVjXB8ksp1cCcOiv1wZkT8uUdQRga6gfVXfPT9Ti62Vs7BqcQ_9wPMIPdhDZ7LWeDfaGGOJk6crnUVzfa1ba8OIthVQX87E7n0YalA-_rmLQWEBoWZkVJXQXz_MIO5fQWionB7Fzk9bMCmo9NAaw3rs/w377-h211/images.jpg" width="377" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L. Margot Robbie R. Ryan Gosling</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Just finished seeing the overblown, overhyped film Barbie - I tried twice before and had to turn it off - I was so repelled - so tonight I decided to attempt again to see it through to the end. Hooray - I did just that and alas my original perception was never challenged as Ideas and even musical numbers were flattened out as if steamrolled into their hairline dimension by a Gerwig/ Baumbach screenplay. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> Sure the graphics and costumes are cute and so are the Barbies and Kens, but this is a shallow, cliched movie - using war-between-the-sexes "word-speak" language to talk about the faults of a Patriarchy vs. the strength and beauty of a Matriarchy both of which are portrayed with pure Hollywood glitz.
"Stereotypical Barbie" acted by Margot Robbie is as stereotypical as the film devoid of any emotion. The movie characters are plastic, smoothed to the touch physically, and leveled to the ground like talcum powder.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> I was a Ryan Gosling fan but jeez in order to see him again I will have to erase his loopy KEN performance from my mind's eye. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> If this is considered a "feminist film" I would re-evaluate what people think Feminism is today. Is it PINK?
</span></div>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-64892903187835808532023-12-19T13:32:00.000-08:002023-12-19T13:32:55.088-08:00KATHARINE KUHARIC EXHIBITION "THE FOLIATED ROOM" AT PPOW GALLERY<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; text-align: center;">Katharine Kuharic at PPOW</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE FOLIATED ROOM 12/15/23 - 1/27/24</span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpPvPj2oM42HQPCdZl7SC9w_90c8cg7avFaIeCjkoB4wFCU72dpYZYdxoKUvE9i5XYJUJX5420Krdsoj2PLM0EcUYyVp0uBJ9xVX8GDl_G0N8nbZJ-2VRwDxd6-WaNaq9nSkwbKKN_80uStr0vcHtKi55lfVVvlx7hXDTvQ0nlLh9eCzdFh5e57pyhG11B/s1500/Cenotaph%2040x60%202020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1500" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpPvPj2oM42HQPCdZl7SC9w_90c8cg7avFaIeCjkoB4wFCU72dpYZYdxoKUvE9i5XYJUJX5420Krdsoj2PLM0EcUYyVp0uBJ9xVX8GDl_G0N8nbZJ-2VRwDxd6-WaNaq9nSkwbKKN_80uStr0vcHtKi55lfVVvlx7hXDTvQ0nlLh9eCzdFh5e57pyhG11B/w640-h435/Cenotaph%2040x60%202020.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cenotaph, oil/linen, 40x60inches, 2020</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I spend days walking around looking at art and am rarely inspired to examine what I see. Rarely do my flitting eyes widen becoming a leash tightening around my neck pulling me towards work transmuting into a face-to-face intimacy as I closely examine what so attracted me. My taste is very broad as I am not frozen in one style - artworks must bleed a presence that exudes sensitivity and individuality resulting in beauty - be it a shout or a whisper that touches my gut and conscience. Always a rare occurrence but Katharine Kuharic’s exhibition will be affixed to my memory.</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I walked into PPOW Gallery and I saw color - closely hued tonalities from a vast spectrum of pigments - some were complementary colors, but so closely hued that I thought of Gauguin and his flattening of space through disparate colors creating lyrically harmonic paintings. Once I got close to the work I saw the camouflaging of imagery done with a hand that was so delicate that I became lost in the patterning. Kuharic’s touch is light and fragile but always sensual as if she were tenderly wrapping her fingers around the subject matter - be it foliage or hidden birds waiting to emerge through time and our apprehension of them.</span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like her early paintings, mortality is a constant theme intertwined with the awareness not only between growth and decay but how climate change further impacts our Universe. In some recent works, beautifully painted realistic images of a kitten - no longer obscured - come to the foreground gazing at us with a wistful gaze as if to question what we the caretakers have done to our sacred land. Often black and white birds float in the sea of color like witnesses to the defilement of nature’s beauty. And yet these paintings have an optimism akin to the sublime radiance of jewel-like treasures.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJNbvDpBG3ta5RNIERyb8ESJ7RoOhEqJ-oTL2POiBoJ471rg8MMTGzQWaeRaIBHYRVX_wQp-7PMG54lmn8yxuidfv5GhyMscqcSkx9kHxcmz9vdjE5sdDMyl1ouCAYk0qlSn9Fca84Tufrl58RiUcmHfTrtJ-h9h33GTKuoQXnuThhWC4N6IFGjUM4-C2/s1500/Burst%20Forth%20%201993%2010x8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJNbvDpBG3ta5RNIERyb8ESJ7RoOhEqJ-oTL2POiBoJ471rg8MMTGzQWaeRaIBHYRVX_wQp-7PMG54lmn8yxuidfv5GhyMscqcSkx9kHxcmz9vdjE5sdDMyl1ouCAYk0qlSn9Fca84Tufrl58RiUcmHfTrtJ-h9h33GTKuoQXnuThhWC4N6IFGjUM4-C2/w326-h400/Burst%20Forth%20%201993%2010x8.jpg" width="326" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burst Forth, oil/linen, 10x8 in. 1993</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJEoXqwCVKkr1gIWASiZqsM-_iK7bOOGdIIolFhwrT24_-4pAupPMZtSf1c15XDLxxS-07jU1O1QS-VluJ_mtllRnhwnu2zCy3EljSySRpp4I4zIhrRjech5GcCvqfrve3rhvsMifkxVnKaWK5bzBefwi1KidgQovYnb0FxqqYCMHNGogfYOFbwqpobcf2/s1500/Perch%202023%2012x9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1194" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJEoXqwCVKkr1gIWASiZqsM-_iK7bOOGdIIolFhwrT24_-4pAupPMZtSf1c15XDLxxS-07jU1O1QS-VluJ_mtllRnhwnu2zCy3EljSySRpp4I4zIhrRjech5GcCvqfrve3rhvsMifkxVnKaWK5bzBefwi1KidgQovYnb0FxqqYCMHNGogfYOFbwqpobcf2/w319-h400/Perch%202023%2012x9.jpg" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perch, oil/linen 12x9 inches, 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZPms81K7qlSQK8TfFTPZ6n-_t4w8Mvgf3m3nacm9QIaqqvObQAekk8WhGrnBdZyAMhFfbMIMV5s1c7BpoQTjfB0JWh5XRa-L4flX9Sb6-R8V5WpiSPl9DBAWRTuloCRWbMZ8oZTLDzoxXfl_Y8A7jJdrW4SRQANxVtl9tsfM-MeG5ZVTWy0lTtIYJ6c4/s1195/Sentinel%202021%2060x40.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="805" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZPms81K7qlSQK8TfFTPZ6n-_t4w8Mvgf3m3nacm9QIaqqvObQAekk8WhGrnBdZyAMhFfbMIMV5s1c7BpoQTjfB0JWh5XRa-L4flX9Sb6-R8V5WpiSPl9DBAWRTuloCRWbMZ8oZTLDzoxXfl_Y8A7jJdrW4SRQANxVtl9tsfM-MeG5ZVTWy0lTtIYJ6c4/w270-h400/Sentinel%202021%2060x40.jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sentinel, oil/linen, 60x40, 2021</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7nST7QznqoJT7m4jHbXcXDP5iTeFxAPlF5LsjXdOaWG3TWvuTIXHatyIYC4I6ditiUlBGJ3ujBGdcmZ9oJCu9fuzl0f6E1yG6_jZxRIeYRaWdOegqt83iBsyxMeecbevULvztR57nEUaen0_SCo6UQtisPgtXnxOtTK0eqLKqP1g8aBSIHvDoKcRWpXf/s1600/Tangle%202023%2014x11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1238" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7nST7QznqoJT7m4jHbXcXDP5iTeFxAPlF5LsjXdOaWG3TWvuTIXHatyIYC4I6ditiUlBGJ3ujBGdcmZ9oJCu9fuzl0f6E1yG6_jZxRIeYRaWdOegqt83iBsyxMeecbevULvztR57nEUaen0_SCo6UQtisPgtXnxOtTK0eqLKqP1g8aBSIHvDoKcRWpXf/w310-h400/Tangle%202023%2014x11.jpg" width="310" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tangle, oil/linen,14x11in. 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYthau_c4KHQCeVo5IyvSPpDLrhmofeZlVHhmhWXi2LpgGL-Pf5OS0XhylCyQ0JnGekvJQExV3Iqw0aH8BKrJIzgiY9MvyyeUfxC4wJdFW4KyQCsIjr1fjwnjz7ND2U7I333V5YeHJL3M5KBBQCdcE064bVEbNKImZgLOI1x8fJh_LsADLPoFkrgXR1BA/s1500/Virginia%20Creeper%202023%2016x12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1172" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYthau_c4KHQCeVo5IyvSPpDLrhmofeZlVHhmhWXi2LpgGL-Pf5OS0XhylCyQ0JnGekvJQExV3Iqw0aH8BKrJIzgiY9MvyyeUfxC4wJdFW4KyQCsIjr1fjwnjz7ND2U7I333V5YeHJL3M5KBBQCdcE064bVEbNKImZgLOI1x8fJh_LsADLPoFkrgXR1BA/w313-h400/Virginia%20Creeper%202023%2016x12.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virginia Creeper, oil/linen, 16x12 in. 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8aE3ZcjpJpzzS925VA3BFIy9-rAMxyv3vEVQc22kGUTqzjSczsTTom33GxiMJbzFN9rwTQk08HAxwtdIc3vjpYHgOhrxuYvX9RvLETws-6iWPMQlDz0sYkkqwd5AP6-PhGsNOfdo5ywjWb1ZugXo19opGGPUrJrncLeEN0sbv8pvLplwAqgbmyGBJ1D5/s1500/Tabernacle%20of%20Tears%202019%2040x60.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Ingres is a great </span><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: var(--surface-background); font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: var(--surface-background); font-family: inherit;">example - beautiful drapery with noodle fingers delicately placed on sumptuously painted fabrics.</span></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Too many years of teaching and developing my eye cannot be shut off when I “eye” major exhibitions - So here goes with the terrific - yes still terrific - Manet/Degas pairing show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many images here and some paintings are wonderful just as they are, and I include them. Manet knocked out Degas in the 3rd round but Degas still got in some punches not that there was a competition though the Met might have handled it that way - making them competitors thematically. Manet has a luminosity and serpentine hand that can dance and punch its way around a canvas. Degas is softer - these oil paintings show why he loved pastels so much - they began crisp and became fuzzier around the edges as he developed - blending into the background. They both employ narrative and in my opinion, could have been edited….but alas I was not around almost two centuries ago.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">With these photos (which include wall labels and details) I apologize for being too lazy to edit or remove the glare to peak culmination, I show some of the painting gaffes that distracted me. Manet loved to smush out a toe and fingers here and there; Degas would allow a pant leg to be as flat as an ironing board; canvases were literally torn /sliced away from the original works and I believe Manet just got too bored to finish up the less finer point of a piece. Also interestingly Manet was not afraid of using dark tones in even the whitest of draperies, but rarely would he model a person's particularly a woman’s face with darker tones. so some of his greatest depictions of women are very pale and delicate. The exception is a great Berthe Morisot portrait.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I loved seeing the show - don’t get me wrong - but I also love to search for the eccentricity and the humanity in the work.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyzjIVvsJ8Y87Ur-ueVRkIQgDd8Ne4yWWNvbAh1voICaEPciKKmToZUVABfse9dxlphy_ySSzszj6CJfkb-8nZuCIoBWyde34-O-slpBDf8TIiOdSVwYa1QjnZojyGDRYc9ChKGQn9HDl6UajnGXMSXACKnQ-hrFm1HzteFClwydu0ihE4TGj2IbHxB4F/s2840/IMG_3264.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Gary and Tommy Lee Jones as Jeremiah O'Keefe. This is a David vs Goliath law case litigated in a small Mississippi courtroom; a true story made into a film based on a 1999 New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr about the Loewen-O'Keefe trial exposing the exploitation of poor and black people by a billionaire Corporation.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0s-GB29Qkcixmqnl0-dEy4H3Ej0y2if6TaimshObcWC0HlChXswh4ZNHkgRYstQ9L3Ii7Z-5ZI28iOHyYHl84nDFzwnUH3Za8Bu_okgIv0zGtAkhTQn8T6oykuUr8WFdVPyr7Dc3kZSRrMtLx_rTqbTAWFMjZvurOc6qFtT6RTy15ieryZQazmYBEVRGo/s750/the-burial-jamie-foxx-750x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="750" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0s-GB29Qkcixmqnl0-dEy4H3Ej0y2if6TaimshObcWC0HlChXswh4ZNHkgRYstQ9L3Ii7Z-5ZI28iOHyYHl84nDFzwnUH3Za8Bu_okgIv0zGtAkhTQn8T6oykuUr8WFdVPyr7Dc3kZSRrMtLx_rTqbTAWFMjZvurOc6qFtT6RTy15ieryZQazmYBEVRGo/w400-h214/the-burial-jamie-foxx-750x400.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a powerful film as evidenced in one scene of a group of people viewing a vast, flat expanse of green with no headstones - a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>burial ground of slaves. This plot of land references the historical roots of racism and how time piles up one injustice over another so that the original<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'sins" are buried so deep they are forgotten.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The two lead actors are both passionate fighters for what they believe in. Watching Jamie Foxx with incredible charisma as a small-time, hotshot personal injury lawyer stepping out of his comfort zone to defend a funeral home director who decides to sue a company that is attempting to decimate his family's legacy made me forget the world falling apart around us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tommy Lee Jones also gives a terrific performance, using his body to express the feeling of defeat, shoulders slumped with a gait that is no longer straight but unsteady. THE BURIAL is filled with sentimentality which felt appropriate in the beauty of the relationship between Jones and Foxx - opposites but both respecting each other's values.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I particularly want to mention a young actor, Mamoudou Athie, a quiet and commanding presence as Hal Dockins who O'Keefe hires just out of law school and is a catalyst for much of the film's legal maneuvering.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-23738327157302978752023-06-06T04:49:00.003-07:002023-06-06T04:51:36.410-07:00WANGECHI MUTU AT NEW MUSEUM, NYC 6/2/23<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xzGXdX52CmPyjLsqKQ3iUBPLvik1Puen502871Rkm-RZ2VwjMbVk0o2KG6Ge-UMi1KFnBUpo3aDfjkA0mzInOOzgVgJwjfy4k5eQiEznT0W-yem8hk_NlLPnewuuMBgZMEu3sS39srXSXzbec8yw9UbyhmVJ6VLJVoZGLJ72OmXdSXJPshbBofG0Gg/s1500/IMG_2671.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1252" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xzGXdX52CmPyjLsqKQ3iUBPLvik1Puen502871Rkm-RZ2VwjMbVk0o2KG6Ge-UMi1KFnBUpo3aDfjkA0mzInOOzgVgJwjfy4k5eQiEznT0W-yem8hk_NlLPnewuuMBgZMEu3sS39srXSXzbec8yw9UbyhmVJ6VLJVoZGLJ72OmXdSXJPshbBofG0Gg/w421-h504/IMG_2671.jpg" width="421" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLlr5oAd0Z4QmQXqipiqryCQBvy5Z6_VLjt17HNtjldCOHUHXXyEZgcRMompr_8kJP0GO0KdIsxyRWLjpUxi3yCwFFEqKIFJBRzcFmNsY0BM_RhEaSInxXbQVJm7a6P34137P3E45g1NoAeDQ7y4fQk7ArAJyiY1Qo4EtFZji3_dLUmLlWhj658l9wg/s1500/IMG_2672detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLlr5oAd0Z4QmQXqipiqryCQBvy5Z6_VLjt17HNtjldCOHUHXXyEZgcRMompr_8kJP0GO0KdIsxyRWLjpUxi3yCwFFEqKIFJBRzcFmNsY0BM_RhEaSInxXbQVJm7a6P34137P3E45g1NoAeDQ7y4fQk7ArAJyiY1Qo4EtFZji3_dLUmLlWhj658l9wg/s320/IMG_2672detail.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I have attended almost all of Wangechi Mutu’s exhibitions in NYC over the years, and the effect on me, from the early pieces to the most recent bronze sculptures, has been profound. Her use of collage as an art form - one in which I once felt Hannah Hoch dominated - attained new levels of personal and political expression equal in range and breadth to exquisite and majestic paintings. These works at The New Museum closing June 6th, literally unearth the Kenyan soil - dry </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">sand and deep red mud embodying the beauty and scourge of her homeland. Writhing cutout female figures containing imagery reminiscent of flayed animal flesh with a contagion crawling through the skin gives us a sense of what is “seen and unseen.” Mutu uses medical illustrations for one of her series of women’s faces describing death and disease - viruses brewing below the surface waiting to erupt.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibren4HmMM-HX9XYAQkk07qP9MrXbw0obHPAQ9Im7Z_6_X473GP8ypfEV9tA_Nhpf0BoGuy_QPk6fgkj-4yZnc2GOiqhR3yUXA6qhc-bQEhpNslHYQSdRJMC9wsfg_v9lpxWw8bxuiq7Q_Kxyacrh0lnXbbyII43t-WBg6vbDvqlOR8TJZd2ZGXiZn3g/s2491/IMG_2667.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2491" data-original-width="1415" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibren4HmMM-HX9XYAQkk07qP9MrXbw0obHPAQ9Im7Z_6_X473GP8ypfEV9tA_Nhpf0BoGuy_QPk6fgkj-4yZnc2GOiqhR3yUXA6qhc-bQEhpNslHYQSdRJMC9wsfg_v9lpxWw8bxuiq7Q_Kxyacrh0lnXbbyII43t-WBg6vbDvqlOR8TJZd2ZGXiZn3g/w285-h501/IMG_2667.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her potent satirical collages also speak to Western myths about Africa - women tattooed with leopard skin bodies and contorted faces romping around the landscape’s reeds and bark trees like insects collapsing into fetal positions - glitter and mylar bringing light and color unto their bowed bodies. There is always a stunning dream-like fascination with Mutu’s world of women which captivates and draws us to them - repulsion and seduction are compelling forces that bewitch and beguile.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_L1RHLrShBcuZguAQCPyoBczh8SNGCvUeT6J4dgOIjAdG8KmVeKKn8o2EO5A_c-pqOCFZt4x0_H84jD4IIlPmt5s3U7bhUqiW2e_yN5MrnsHGR3wukM4KAnwHKROKAX6roy0-hfkuIk-56iYLMeRRGvHtCRU7g-KMqgSRwvf8jodbHtFR2weB-woizQ/s1469/IMG_2665.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1469" data-original-width="953" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_L1RHLrShBcuZguAQCPyoBczh8SNGCvUeT6J4dgOIjAdG8KmVeKKn8o2EO5A_c-pqOCFZt4x0_H84jD4IIlPmt5s3U7bhUqiW2e_yN5MrnsHGR3wukM4KAnwHKROKAX6roy0-hfkuIk-56iYLMeRRGvHtCRU7g-KMqgSRwvf8jodbHtFR2weB-woizQ/s320/IMG_2665.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvm79K3Teh0eH8cL4JDj4fvNsT5WEOKKPcHg5EiKosT-jAMghvAenKB8wH9e74y1jBb3shUzg03ixdXAI1fJl0oTYgiI0GCZzsDzhn3adbU361Vjdq-_67un6Xjhrp53O8OWSO1VMkkYZe15anFJWObg8malhpm2wy8lWirf8j6YpdMbwAZj4DeNLODg/s1500/IMG_2688.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1446" data-original-width="1500" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvm79K3Teh0eH8cL4JDj4fvNsT5WEOKKPcHg5EiKosT-jAMghvAenKB8wH9e74y1jBb3shUzg03ixdXAI1fJl0oTYgiI0GCZzsDzhn3adbU361Vjdq-_67un6Xjhrp53O8OWSO1VMkkYZe15anFJWObg8malhpm2wy8lWirf8j6YpdMbwAZj4DeNLODg/w428-h412/IMG_2688.jpg" width="428" /></a></div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seeing this mini-retrospective at The New Museum helped me to better understand her large bronze sci-fi sculptures. They are a logical transformation from paper pulp and wood to molten metal. The surfaces are shiny with sleek ribbings. Women are conjoined with crocodilians and other imaginary creatures as if emerging out of cocoons - or seated atop them like noble blossoming royalty.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlr0RE6qzkbfucFXQoPP4tcvh8vmiEUWzCHbagZtSceM7yjIBZRMdXM_14lqlWTsBpAOb4GNaPR9vf3GFAnbcmAE6HvSZ0dOT1Q2Arx62WtQ8HTMyz984I05MnpxkqITXIu9ypVa8a-0n-OWI3bEe0TdoW-cvtyd_Kh7IesHoRLAazJklTY_gi_4MiDw/s1500/IMG_2683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="889" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlr0RE6qzkbfucFXQoPP4tcvh8vmiEUWzCHbagZtSceM7yjIBZRMdXM_14lqlWTsBpAOb4GNaPR9vf3GFAnbcmAE6HvSZ0dOT1Q2Arx62WtQ8HTMyz984I05MnpxkqITXIu9ypVa8a-0n-OWI3bEe0TdoW-cvtyd_Kh7IesHoRLAazJklTY_gi_4MiDw/w237-h398/IMG_2683.jpg" width="237" /></a></div></div></div>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-11268425801282419382023-04-16T14:59:00.008-07:002023-04-17T19:27:02.198-07:00John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres - Exhibition SWAGGER AND TENDERNESS at Bronx Museum, NYC<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last time I took a bus traveling through the Bronx was in 2008 when I frequently visited Montefiore Hospital and shortly thereafter Calvary Hospital/Hospice where my mother lay dying receiving palliative care. I always chose the front seat on the bus so I could look out the driver’s translucent windows observing the teeming vibrancy of the neighborhoods we careened through. The ride back and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">forth became a bridge from vitality to death-a time of reflective memories and the finality of loss. At that time I noticed how some buildings were also collapsing, slowly fading away into the dusty ground while others were being renovated - rising up from decline.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84ViofnsK4z1h-EAbumOgDxWGER2UShlqogxfnax7fSLkUArKuaRjwl7eyj3_p2U3xxDbm7OppOzte-XPWFE1vB3AHR1Bj0-ZqE_PJQK_QDDMr_AxG7q4Wp2LuNdA86HoaEMYI5UPgJqB5wks4bFOVPZrR1I9sAqiPYYHcanTgLMysDRYaFQ2FvdpQA/s1500/IMG_2531.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1408" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84ViofnsK4z1h-EAbumOgDxWGER2UShlqogxfnax7fSLkUArKuaRjwl7eyj3_p2U3xxDbm7OppOzte-XPWFE1vB3AHR1Bj0-ZqE_PJQK_QDDMr_AxG7q4Wp2LuNdA86HoaEMYI5UPgJqB5wks4bFOVPZrR1I9sAqiPYYHcanTgLMysDRYaFQ2FvdpQA/w403-h430/IMG_2531.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I was on the way to The Bronx Museum to see the exhibition Swagger and Tenderness - The South Bronx Portraits featuring the artworks of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. This bus trip was different from 15 years ago. The Bronx where I grew up in my teen years having moved from Washington Heights was being “refurbished” - a double-edged sword grinding the buoyant culture of street games, locally owned stores/bodegas, and families sitting outside on stoops talking about the shared vicissitudes of their lives - both joyful and painful - which was slowly being eroded. But once I arrived at the Museum the world had tipped over again and I was drawn into the images of the inhabitants of this vital South Bronx community realizing that the breadth and breath of a neighborhood could not easily be extinguished.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKV3mLNt8TC497hS0mnY9hcLFD-H7029C3RFdseMyEITFH8K2GcyCY4pzk674Qvww_Jdn3J_TPnbD1vX9cdWjMoLDKqPEwXEDyXasDR_ZwVJwlOI2oJOjulttv8z0kg30B_uVPghrDaMuowGeotfcbnWoeLbgps_RUp1uA1kTZhrnoBsfnlBkYxrjo1Q/s1800/IMG_2553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1350" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKV3mLNt8TC497hS0mnY9hcLFD-H7029C3RFdseMyEITFH8K2GcyCY4pzk674Qvww_Jdn3J_TPnbD1vX9cdWjMoLDKqPEwXEDyXasDR_ZwVJwlOI2oJOjulttv8z0kg30B_uVPghrDaMuowGeotfcbnWoeLbgps_RUp1uA1kTZhrnoBsfnlBkYxrjo1Q/w387-h516/IMG_2553.jpg" width="387" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />I have been a fan of John Ahearn’s art since the early 1980s when I first glimpsed the four young girls on the side of a Bronx building playing “Double Dutch” jump rope. I was deeply touched by the profound affection, and “there-ness” displayed toward his subjects without resorting to any contrivances. I soon learned that John joined with Rigoberto Torres who had made plaster casts in his Uncle’s statuary store and that life-long partnership, each with distinctive stylistic and painterly touches is ongoing.<br /><br />The Museum walls are painted a resonant blue - a bridging of sky and water; the sculptures float in that atmospheric space. Many works are collaborations - and I often wondered who did what? Separately I could often distinguish their stylistic differences, particularly in the acrylic painting on the casts. The “tenderness of the exhibition’s title is evident in almost every piece. The “swagger” is also visible, but the delicate beauty of John’s and Rigoberto’s brushwork with its range of skin tones and exuberant colors unearthed the humanity that exists below the veneer of bravado. I was uplifted by this generous exhibition allowing me entry into the gift of loving relationships be it with a parent, child, or friends. <br /><br /><a class="x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7" href="https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/swagger-and-tenderness-the-south-bronx-portraits-by-john-ahearn-rigoberto-torres/">https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/swagger-and-tenderness-the-south-bronx-portraits-by-john-ahearn-rigoberto-torres/</a></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz3onZxtACDLPc4toWZi7blaw9JE6m6n77uwEuThsqLU-yEAuqM8QHdgG99sjMoSXDhru2HfNGpEmqWOUjxUfog_nkUSSuSeq1TYkZjF7E488vz8u4aNAOZILmsut6GR1yKw5v_r6BEJ9p3oBAWFCS9sTmNRC6BBFdJk9D7og0Zg8QYD-_-42I98r_6g/s1500/IMG_2534.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz3onZxtACDLPc4toWZi7blaw9JE6m6n77uwEuThsqLU-yEAuqM8QHdgG99sjMoSXDhru2HfNGpEmqWOUjxUfog_nkUSSuSeq1TYkZjF7E488vz8u4aNAOZILmsut6GR1yKw5v_r6BEJ9p3oBAWFCS9sTmNRC6BBFdJk9D7og0Zg8QYD-_-42I98r_6g/s320/IMG_2534.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn, BB, 1979, Acrylic on Plaster</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTCcpsk4KIVIgnXvpXdmwoXp6Z2lsI2cD9hOfJJ2dVJiPmEaBeWwz59-GLbMwc3O6iabQh44q5BRoTBJioWGUXnw0lyyjrCt3jkqTQhYU5F-5NfAVYh05BsAGeT4h5gCPUXqqVfGwL2aJ87DbViBC5KXZ3lkcTSUAm1jQ2rANtBWgD7w3SfF2_8KfZg/s1500/IMG_2536.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTCcpsk4KIVIgnXvpXdmwoXp6Z2lsI2cD9hOfJJ2dVJiPmEaBeWwz59-GLbMwc3O6iabQh44q5BRoTBJioWGUXnw0lyyjrCt3jkqTQhYU5F-5NfAVYh05BsAGeT4h5gCPUXqqVfGwL2aJ87DbViBC5KXZ3lkcTSUAm1jQ2rANtBWgD7w3SfF2_8KfZg/s320/IMG_2536.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres, Maria, 1981, Acrylic on Plaster</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiliVzyZMwDfU3tx9v8ah-ZOg6o3RmmXKgFkXNLjZIQg2qdVxZ-mcDS5zoF_VCMx7oUHh8z9zm4xzYO6dqPAwmN4kLLdCglJrANoMIZ8HcXHmqSwEncQc3VFse5L6JKF3uSXBrAldagHAdWy895iZFvJbis2zLSyF0yazdWW_OkwCx0XRn079-8YAk8g/s1500/IMG_2539.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiliVzyZMwDfU3tx9v8ah-ZOg6o3RmmXKgFkXNLjZIQg2qdVxZ-mcDS5zoF_VCMx7oUHh8z9zm4xzYO6dqPAwmN4kLLdCglJrANoMIZ8HcXHmqSwEncQc3VFse5L6JKF3uSXBrAldagHAdWy895iZFvJbis2zLSyF0yazdWW_OkwCx0XRn079-8YAk8g/s320/IMG_2539.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn, Cosmic, 1979, Acrylic on plaster</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88oioXz9DtscRoUJI5CmIMXFGxvbZfYkv71hmMG40oHg6cKL8fazXPwClX1bQXRfckMTX55q-Fwm6j2rsCyf0DgqGBJWxw4y8FA9IeAHuGLE0GB6vrCDYQJIdEfX__Ym5h21RUgjL_sjU-pX3UWFH1dx6DwlqwV0RpHbNDG1JTDwwe-NgQPo19vY1wA/s1500/IMG_2541.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88oioXz9DtscRoUJI5CmIMXFGxvbZfYkv71hmMG40oHg6cKL8fazXPwClX1bQXRfckMTX55q-Fwm6j2rsCyf0DgqGBJWxw4y8FA9IeAHuGLE0GB6vrCDYQJIdEfX__Ym5h21RUgjL_sjU-pX3UWFH1dx6DwlqwV0RpHbNDG1JTDwwe-NgQPo19vY1wA/s320/IMG_2541.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn, Miguel, 2017, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuryHWsghYpSnESwcxyUT_VtmfFKDVUwtvjyOb4790BXbZmGvmNIoye99MxJ3w7oh-uKnOJ5VWJ8JLuMNSmlqXLp2vXWyZzUNFPM7LP4aPZyLs342uc0Vx08tOCUt4xBbAU7RD98jx4jsOkKAWA9VfwidPknuQzSFM5kgqVEB-09brWuxJdzSllRkEIg/s1500/IMG_2543.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuryHWsghYpSnESwcxyUT_VtmfFKDVUwtvjyOb4790BXbZmGvmNIoye99MxJ3w7oh-uKnOJ5VWJ8JLuMNSmlqXLp2vXWyZzUNFPM7LP4aPZyLs342uc0Vx08tOCUt4xBbAU7RD98jx4jsOkKAWA9VfwidPknuQzSFM5kgqVEB-09brWuxJdzSllRkEIg/s320/IMG_2543.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rigoberto Torres with John Ahearn, Teri, 1980, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheEHXrNU7yW3EOjVNPiWYK-yjy-nZm6wcD1R4yU557-r0le5kUuD9HHArtYb1YKZ5boKjnPG0IPZbvtKfv4kN7b-6DadX54m3cUx_IZDzS2Jzt_8SzixrXKGp8l5aPKOr4D2gJ0z_mSzPZ9zgE7nirKaQY1i-KpTwtGK1TH8G80b1hTbpKcVdLP8QAEg/s1500/IMG_2545.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1150" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheEHXrNU7yW3EOjVNPiWYK-yjy-nZm6wcD1R4yU557-r0le5kUuD9HHArtYb1YKZ5boKjnPG0IPZbvtKfv4kN7b-6DadX54m3cUx_IZDzS2Jzt_8SzixrXKGp8l5aPKOr4D2gJ0z_mSzPZ9zgE7nirKaQY1i-KpTwtGK1TH8G80b1hTbpKcVdLP8QAEg/s320/IMG_2545.jpg" width="245" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres, Mario and Norma, 1979, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3XWw3AVeoOhDd0xZ0so2n2Lr-24aPNum5wAbWLbbfAqFJ7OAUksS9tAo8U04VzbjINt0Xv06QJiSes8yBTWLNtCqfVzFe6GKXpIptU3H7dbfVWrSzdUI3nCDaZoaTWAQ9q9kCSm3JYrihFJI5EX1CI3PwKF5CJ12yXiu-0If0mu92JJWdX7aSmLOvNA/s1800/IMG_2547.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1008" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3XWw3AVeoOhDd0xZ0so2n2Lr-24aPNum5wAbWLbbfAqFJ7OAUksS9tAo8U04VzbjINt0Xv06QJiSes8yBTWLNtCqfVzFe6GKXpIptU3H7dbfVWrSzdUI3nCDaZoaTWAQ9q9kCSm3JYrihFJI5EX1CI3PwKF5CJ12yXiu-0If0mu92JJWdX7aSmLOvNA/s320/IMG_2547.jpg" width="179" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rigoberto Torres, Julio, Jose, and Junito, 1991/95, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGIIQ6fUuao-VfKKkEVY4YP8upF2QnplJaQUizXoob87VF_wVtoFCu07AWf59KBmfET0NaCdwlo6jQ_KRyUtaLVZSKJpLFrjNPSeZZIeUo3wTpHIxoKYKHF-f7DdfQ0tqhZIjAfELmD_BlBa3HxHxDTCDEnAtDtRIst5ca6ld46b57ZIwcBr0CJwtWw/s1500/IMG_2549.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="971" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGIIQ6fUuao-VfKKkEVY4YP8upF2QnplJaQUizXoob87VF_wVtoFCu07AWf59KBmfET0NaCdwlo6jQ_KRyUtaLVZSKJpLFrjNPSeZZIeUo3wTpHIxoKYKHF-f7DdfQ0tqhZIjAfELmD_BlBa3HxHxDTCDEnAtDtRIst5ca6ld46b57ZIwcBr0CJwtWw/s320/IMG_2549.jpg" width="207" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn, Pregnant Girl, 1979, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuZljl_uMU7S3SMcNoxoF0v0ginLN01KQokC_oRTEAVKgC6DAo9RbPEZOFvm3z5qk84LPuzCWztFNjJfgudfqoy1kns8175rS7-uiS5kIUsysMpFpT432rxCqmGuG_B6xlBvYV_OGYsPOGN-r53-wbhH-vWDfOxAOD-UnFAgYjnbGdj1ST2Ts0IOIjw/s1500/IMG_2551.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuZljl_uMU7S3SMcNoxoF0v0ginLN01KQokC_oRTEAVKgC6DAo9RbPEZOFvm3z5qk84LPuzCWztFNjJfgudfqoy1kns8175rS7-uiS5kIUsysMpFpT432rxCqmGuG_B6xlBvYV_OGYsPOGN-r53-wbhH-vWDfOxAOD-UnFAgYjnbGdj1ST2Ts0IOIjw/s320/IMG_2551.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">john Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres, Selena, 1985, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxtCmqak1xNynjR7eLf0kreRkdENlxNlOJ6D3A9EftAFjXWQvOEZv_USD8xlXC49a14NOjbndaXrq3QAXX3NkFsc7UxxNMLc5a-BRwcXyWZ7vmuZ_hMx15GTH1D4vJXFZCYJuCUvmsrcWo4op6qBlZiXUH3CMbxTeb9JRHvP7V3t1F26EDjNcBx7ysA/s1600/IMG_2554.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="941" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxtCmqak1xNynjR7eLf0kreRkdENlxNlOJ6D3A9EftAFjXWQvOEZv_USD8xlXC49a14NOjbndaXrq3QAXX3NkFsc7UxxNMLc5a-BRwcXyWZ7vmuZ_hMx15GTH1D4vJXFZCYJuCUvmsrcWo4op6qBlZiXUH3CMbxTeb9JRHvP7V3t1F26EDjNcBx7ysA/s320/IMG_2554.jpg" width="188" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Ahearn, Yashua Rd, 2021, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-BHKxgmUscmGF4fooQxv545Uo_8TN--iZmoePWtYOMP4z10aldMd8o6AjeUdkbjQ6cxbz05bTBMPHfKd3eae1zbszQKyN46BwTZJvgCnXTfB75OkYHACkzIWZ6lCoc7og9boRCp06eWAQI8w5UfGyx28A1s6MjXdcLvqumpeedaPIf9F9nK-rEqBgA/s1500/IMG_2569.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1229" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-BHKxgmUscmGF4fooQxv545Uo_8TN--iZmoePWtYOMP4z10aldMd8o6AjeUdkbjQ6cxbz05bTBMPHfKd3eae1zbszQKyN46BwTZJvgCnXTfB75OkYHACkzIWZ6lCoc7og9boRCp06eWAQI8w5UfGyx28A1s6MjXdcLvqumpeedaPIf9F9nK-rEqBgA/s320/IMG_2569.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dUwqq21RHPgsZW2W8NfVKjGQPo7c2eiUwaeV9sciJoLD0YeBQWiSOGF8NNi3LDTZqnBRfONonbGdP7AP78z6VGpzonWOH6vDTSVoR4QkkWjRrI3jLuwWq93S-ObSgWNQWmyIshptRwjHF2qqskVZW1AtG0zcZtZyWOWB0IsXUAZx8_q9jBrVLenFiA/s1500/IMG_2571.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1387" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dUwqq21RHPgsZW2W8NfVKjGQPo7c2eiUwaeV9sciJoLD0YeBQWiSOGF8NNi3LDTZqnBRfONonbGdP7AP78z6VGpzonWOH6vDTSVoR4QkkWjRrI3jLuwWq93S-ObSgWNQWmyIshptRwjHF2qqskVZW1AtG0zcZtZyWOWB0IsXUAZx8_q9jBrVLenFiA/s320/IMG_2571.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAD1o9WDggrAztq1xd8fkkO4AEfe0GgtCor3U8ioe3ooOyTRx-p87qFOnVTt7f6BwDEGRgfqcAsoXbd71P5iIRH_9rJBDlDtdQ8Z1_7FAU78Llxtx7RLSlkL3EccpHB3wCQxiWt8o1TYeiAgbAASPPeM9iwchW0_Z9iazb0VpwYpnRBbC2Mdd3uf-mJA/s1500/IMG_2532.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1422" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAD1o9WDggrAztq1xd8fkkO4AEfe0GgtCor3U8ioe3ooOyTRx-p87qFOnVTt7f6BwDEGRgfqcAsoXbd71P5iIRH_9rJBDlDtdQ8Z1_7FAU78Llxtx7RLSlkL3EccpHB3wCQxiWt8o1TYeiAgbAASPPeM9iwchW0_Z9iazb0VpwYpnRBbC2Mdd3uf-mJA/s320/IMG_2532.jpg" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rigoberto Torres, Keon and Jeanine, 1995, Acrylic on Plaster<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-56993512044152263472023-03-27T09:55:00.001-07:002023-03-27T09:55:21.219-07:00NAN GOLDIN: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6J1zl2_d956ealkOZQTki0-YGWCUT4K7NLoZxLXl6KuBTVHJFkvQs8L4GAWN0DQ2p2KhvzByWHGObugYMvl-tCItvUphG7vpj18z2Ex3Y851IED1BQpzcCxdfCXTzwTA7JMXIwBts4xS7mhDE819HflH76C_HAITEpNtIfEilnxOmfcns-koXWLLLFg/s600/20GOLDIN-POITRAS1-threeByTwoSmallAt2X.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6J1zl2_d956ealkOZQTki0-YGWCUT4K7NLoZxLXl6KuBTVHJFkvQs8L4GAWN0DQ2p2KhvzByWHGObugYMvl-tCItvUphG7vpj18z2Ex3Y851IED1BQpzcCxdfCXTzwTA7JMXIwBts4xS7mhDE819HflH76C_HAITEpNtIfEilnxOmfcns-koXWLLLFg/s320/20GOLDIN-POITRAS1-threeByTwoSmallAt2X.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED documentary directed by Laura Poitras is on HBO and worth viewing. I felt nauseated viewing the despair and the tentacles of agony that Oxycontin wrested on those who were attempting to avoid pain and instead were engulfed by a "vampire" drug that devoured the essence of one's being eviscerating mind and body.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">We glimpse Nan Goldin from early childhood to the warrior activist she has become through the interweaving of deeply personal photos and slideshows of friends who became the family she yearned for. As a young girl Nan Goldin was terribly shy having lost to suicide her 18 years old sister - the one person in her biological family who she adored - the one who had the will to crash through the confines of suburban conformity.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Goldin speaks about her own Opioid addiction which she vividly describes as almost taking her life. Instead, it galvanized her to fight to make Purdue Pharma/Sackler Family pay for their greed and voracious propaganda through their promotion of Oxycontin, trafficking an epidemic of death into billions of dollars in corporate profits.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is also a journey into the early East Village art and nightlife scenes and the devastation of so many young people to AIDS - another epidemic that was ignored for many years. Moving and heroic, I was enlightened and saddened by this film.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-62555529691853881682022-11-18T16:33:00.007-08:002022-11-18T16:34:51.991-08:00THE ENGLISH 11/18/22<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRyCBLDUAg3VR_ojkz87qP5lDQbckNCtya3wGJdgI0BiZ83_5r02Vt_mAtXkO-M1H2CuroQb1gDVDsPK4r8FFeriNUD0xS6HyXzuP_nunPd19m_40HOmNH9oFUJwLZljkeqzGGDu5fSVOVONsnSjwBU0phtnhsakysaxEm-bNEw6z5VswUXKdVTn5ig/s980/te-060821-e06-bts-dlc-18rc-f-3000-1668685845.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="980" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRyCBLDUAg3VR_ojkz87qP5lDQbckNCtya3wGJdgI0BiZ83_5r02Vt_mAtXkO-M1H2CuroQb1gDVDsPK4r8FFeriNUD0xS6HyXzuP_nunPd19m_40HOmNH9oFUJwLZljkeqzGGDu5fSVOVONsnSjwBU0phtnhsakysaxEm-bNEw6z5VswUXKdVTn5ig/w473-h266/te-060821-e06-bts-dlc-18rc-f-3000-1668685845.jpg" width="473" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: x-large;">I recommend seeing The English, a strangely surreal six-part Western series on Amazon and BBC, beautifully acted by Emily Blunt - the title’s English woman - who has come to this dry, expanse of land that is the American frontier in the 1890s where the rule of law is discarded, tossed into the air to fly among the vultures. There are many flashbacks whereby time and space are dislodged which can be disconcerting and often vertiginous. But these vignettes eventually coalesce - with deep poignancy and desolation.</span><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsV531pO7GNYoXYIec9fOk7LlXDNZwlbVDJsUoSxKdUSRjVL60EQKiHC_YNrPWrFuaADxKN1_PFQ2Vftr42NmUf7i1UrrMjAbtoCWkUBDRt7dHz3R07TPX4_6YoxcCsWXx170KDG0Sol8b8c8T7peexXY5iduuyO9X2waCVetdGLWe9E5baDU7oVK1A/s1014/the-english-emily-blunt-1014x570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1014" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsV531pO7GNYoXYIec9fOk7LlXDNZwlbVDJsUoSxKdUSRjVL60EQKiHC_YNrPWrFuaADxKN1_PFQ2Vftr42NmUf7i1UrrMjAbtoCWkUBDRt7dHz3R07TPX4_6YoxcCsWXx170KDG0Sol8b8c8T7peexXY5iduuyO9X2waCVetdGLWe9E5baDU7oVK1A/w372-h209/the-english-emily-blunt-1014x570.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emily Blunt’s character,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lady Cornelia Locke’s rarefied life in England is suddenly and violently assaulted propelling her to journey to the “new world” on a mission of revenge. There are many cameo roles with wonderful actors popping up throughout the series but Blunt commands our gaze and our heart. She appears to be a beautiful innocent toting a bagful of cash, but we discover early on that she has the ability and confidence to unleash carnage on her enemies.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuVXcXPVg8vDnPJ_h3WgtZVUbcAfo8GReOQBs0JRj-3Msa7ozLp-t1J6O0YjC4Mt1s_wtBYy2DM5uIeMhykjROkkohUzmv8z4t_EUynKlpH8lDRgLt3iySwLdtTom67f6FXUia7hTyo1v6NaYIDc6Z18_KjgnEYbwMYcxh3KbfYw36str-ZUfd_M4dA/s3600/Eli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2025" data-original-width="3600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuVXcXPVg8vDnPJ_h3WgtZVUbcAfo8GReOQBs0JRj-3Msa7ozLp-t1J6O0YjC4Mt1s_wtBYy2DM5uIeMhykjROkkohUzmv8z4t_EUynKlpH8lDRgLt3iySwLdtTom67f6FXUia7hTyo1v6NaYIDc6Z18_KjgnEYbwMYcxh3KbfYw36str-ZUfd_M4dA/w356-h200/Eli.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chaske Spencer, a Native American actor plays the other lead, Sgt. Eli Whipp, a Pawnee scout who recently left the US Army in Oklahoma and is traveling to Nebraska in order to legally “stake a land claim” in his ancestral home.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A harrowing incident brings Cornelia and Chaske together and they begin to travel alongside one another developing a relationship that delicately balances that tensile line between the cliched stoic silent hero and the damsel in distress. Their connection eventually becomes one of understanding and wonder in their very affinity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the many subplots which expose the underlying cruelty, greed, and racism imposed by the myriad “old world” settler’s acquisition of the wild beauty and bleak dirt of the terrain, we glimpse the roots of America’s infirmity. Wresting power from the native tribes, retribution, hatred of the “other”, and a belief in extreme individualism were as rampant then as it is today.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QKVkz8mOVq7HTkTrjgxMJMOoe_M_tZcxrxE44qMcEHrI6fVuOpN3xjrOOA8yJaMyOCgVdDwPp0cWP1UhdIr6A8hDfoXmKli72hZRB6dy_bMLs9wZfAhpG9dCLNeSjKKO6ebRTcvNXmkn42rGIAYNwlItNHXQH8SQ_YP1KJmsNvMTHSiKXMCvV2cImA/s1014/the-english-prime-video-setting-1014x570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1014" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QKVkz8mOVq7HTkTrjgxMJMOoe_M_tZcxrxE44qMcEHrI6fVuOpN3xjrOOA8yJaMyOCgVdDwPp0cWP1UhdIr6A8hDfoXmKli72hZRB6dy_bMLs9wZfAhpG9dCLNeSjKKO6ebRTcvNXmkn42rGIAYNwlItNHXQH8SQ_YP1KJmsNvMTHSiKXMCvV2cImA/w380-h214/the-english-prime-video-setting-1014x570.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Throughout the series, I was captivated by the startlingly original clipped dialogue which translated into the mystery of poetry. Words are often terse and stilted launching visual images. The silence of the sprawling landscape echoes the silence of communication. This is a love story with the knowledge that it is ill-fated and forever immutable.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-57810266180778575752022-08-14T10:48:00.010-07:002022-08-14T11:03:13.799-07:00PANDEMIC FATIGUE 8/14/22<p> <span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWjG-ZKnxYiDHoXCG9rMaPxFMvXRjaTbsa6UkNrfjTr83FwQSs1oyUsn7dl9TWjNSYuFD3Y7KqRY7aVlxExFlqXlpg6jysYbMwC_srw4SVgsiekADPy8vx_6F77BX_mrGJufFAf6MBZUs7rcWCXPpOJoab7FnAv6ax0VhkZFG8GYEPItgzTCms0foWzw/s955/Self-Portrait%20in%20Isolation%204x3ft_2020%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="731" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWjG-ZKnxYiDHoXCG9rMaPxFMvXRjaTbsa6UkNrfjTr83FwQSs1oyUsn7dl9TWjNSYuFD3Y7KqRY7aVlxExFlqXlpg6jysYbMwC_srw4SVgsiekADPy8vx_6F77BX_mrGJufFAf6MBZUs7rcWCXPpOJoab7FnAv6ax0VhkZFG8GYEPItgzTCms0foWzw/w306-h400/Self-Portrait%20in%20Isolation%204x3ft_2020%20.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self-Portrait in Isolation, oil/alkyd/wood, 48x36in. 2020</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The pandemic is not over. I am still isolating in my literal brick “temple,“ and yet the world outside is fatigued by the fear of getting ill, the fear of infecting others, or the ferment of callousness. My life, my appearance, and </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">my </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">trusted routines have been strikingly altered since March 2020.</span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the early days before the word “pandemic” was ever mentioned, I attended gallery openings and the Armory show where I caught a very mild, asymptomatic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(at the time) case of what turned out to be Covid 19. One week later, in mid-March of 2020, I started to complain that food tasted very bland - and one night soon after, I read an article in the NY Times claiming that lack of taste and smell were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">symptoms of Covid. I frantically ran around the studio grabbing and opening up the most pungent of my art-making chemicals - turpentine, varnishes, etc. sniffing while inhaling deeply and not smelling anything. I got intensely anxious and since it was too late to call a Dr. I went to bed, had a very low fever, and ended up shivering violently throughout the night. The shakiness had as much to do with the dread and uncertainty of a virus that we all slowly began to realize was rapidly engulfing the planet.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I called my Dr. and told him I had a temperature of 100.3 another symptom of this disease - he said do NOT go to the ER to be tested - stay home - Hospitals were too dangerous. Covid’s unknowns were like a shroud covering our usual havens of refuge and healing. Within a week I was feeling better - no respiratory symptoms, or tiredness so I mistakenly thought it was over.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Three months later I began to get what is now termed Long Haul symptoms. My full curly hair got very thin dismantling my narcissistic sense of self more — and to this day never grew back; not for lack of trying every new hair serum that I could search for online. My heart was skipping beats, my blood pressure was erratic and I would feel enervated at one moment and then slowly regain strength. I had spells of light-headedness and dizziness particularly after eating (post-prandial hypotension) and I lost about 18 lbs in two weeks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I filled up spray bottles with diluted bleach and water to protect my husband from Covid; we both did not go outside very much, except to my cardiologist who prescribed every possible cardiac test which all turned out to be “normal.” I did not go into NYC or see good friends and did not teach since the facility was closed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One of my students bought me groceries every week - a kindness that I will never forget as I vigorously scrubbed down every item. Since I was never officially tested for Covid, I finally went 8 months later and had an antibody test and the results were positive and then had 2 more tests to make sure - all turned out positive for Covid-19 antibodies. It felt good to be vindicated from all those Doctors who lifted their eyebrows skeptically when<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I mentioned “long haul” syndrome.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">And then strangely in 2021, my husband got very ill from unknown causes with severe weakness, diarrhea, and eventually kidney failure (which was resolved) and was hospitalized 7 times in the past 2 years including one for a mild heart attack. I learned to deal with the medical establishment and one time it ended up with me yelling, gesticulating - hands flying around my face -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at one particular Doctor while a group of astonished nurses surrounded us in the dull green hallway as if we were in the midst of a boxing ring. One good thing came out of the hospitalizations -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am no longer afraid of going to the Emergency Room or calling 9-11.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This year was my turn to be sick and I am still recuperating from an aberrant bout with early onset sepsis and then a month of an antibiotic-induced malady.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There have been other medical scares but I finally feel that my life as lived -which seems so long ago - might be viable and the experience of looking at art and going to galleries - a profound imperative filling up the gash of emptiness of my being is a real possibility.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the way, throughout these months I have always painted; the process being my deliverance from deep despair.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-29390615961177064212022-07-19T11:06:00.007-07:002022-07-19T11:25:25.104-07:00SOUTHLAND ON HBO MAX - 7/19/22<p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoe2c8y0Eucu0ftGMBBqzDItudtqcXYY1oThpqmo3iHK-WRmh-CWI1rsj2tujRXgNlwPLlh7-F4m5QLRlUySlaLvs-mzCG0_Txo0STDJmrCqnKZZpdlUqN_oLZf8Ck9uBBmr20gbEqbnXtnD1aw2Kv9urd3brkPxDNZqSl7lrRslz7unzSqbyxrDm1cg/s400/SouthlandLead_400x300_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoe2c8y0Eucu0ftGMBBqzDItudtqcXYY1oThpqmo3iHK-WRmh-CWI1rsj2tujRXgNlwPLlh7-F4m5QLRlUySlaLvs-mzCG0_Txo0STDJmrCqnKZZpdlUqN_oLZf8Ck9uBBmr20gbEqbnXtnD1aw2Kv9urd3brkPxDNZqSl7lrRslz7unzSqbyxrDm1cg/w447-h335/SouthlandLead_400x300_0.jpg" width="447" /></a></span></div><span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">For the past two weeks, I have been watching all five seasons of SOUTHLAND - a series that ran from 2009-2013; a psychologically incisive cop show on HBO, focusing on policing in a run-down gang-infested area of Los Angeles. We are shown the raw, often brutish nature of being an officer and the magnitude of quick-fire decisions that are made by men and women in uniform fraught with crushing apprehension that can result in taking a life or losing your own. Racism, hate, and negligence in moments of crisis are critically exposed revealing who you really are. Know thyself is tested when you confront life’s desperate moments.</span></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>This show does not romanticize law enforcement but is a fairly realistic portrayal of the humanity or lack of in the daily tensions and dangerous interactions the police have with the populace - those who they are sworn to "protect" and how each character is altered by on-the-street experiences deeply affecting their internal values.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We are privy to the "boots" (new recruits) starting out with an innocent idealism that slowly becomes ossified and eroded by fear, enmity,S and occasionally the beauty of an embrace of tenderness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">The acting is superb with Regina King as one of the Detectives who ambivalently grapples with motherhood. She is excellent as Lydia Adams - the most empathetic person in SOUTHLAND with a fierce desire to shelter victims of heinous crimes, particularly women and children. Another performance is by Michael Cudlitz as Officer John Cooper - a stoic, gay - not “out” to his comrades but “in” and accepting of himself - a proud man who has been on the force for over 20 years and is highly respected by his peers. His training of the younger up-and-coming recruits slowly unmasks his wrenching inner struggles and his decency. Officer John Cooper rarely smiles, but his expressive face affirms a devotion to his profession as well as the cynicism that accompanies it and cannot be escaped. Another one of my favorite actors was Shawn Hatosy who plays Officer Sammy Bryant - a hot-tempered, yet shy and awkward cop - one who uses his physicality to excess - but his delicacy and fragility are palpable.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGfW73KBPShNyNQOODtpIRo0aRxWiXq6hAb1ncsHPh0KCSU6dnL2ICsNxiUuBFEjdHi-mb50Z6oVaDHkTC8qL1uKm5Fqd8viq0Q196a0MH4tzbbYsi1LLO2VOuaEVsT5rh6DmM09JzmEI7xu6sbJAJ_Xef-n-rSAGYlPDE6vYLOmrpUJQ4ui41LdwnQ/s1173/shawn-hatosy-southland.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1173" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGfW73KBPShNyNQOODtpIRo0aRxWiXq6hAb1ncsHPh0KCSU6dnL2ICsNxiUuBFEjdHi-mb50Z6oVaDHkTC8qL1uKm5Fqd8viq0Q196a0MH4tzbbYsi1LLO2VOuaEVsT5rh6DmM09JzmEI7xu6sbJAJ_Xef-n-rSAGYlPDE6vYLOmrpUJQ4ui41LdwnQ/w400-h266/shawn-hatosy-southland.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRPQtp6U4hJK7IyVYbqMtWuFpQoPCTuGNDB2amD3KVabVOOzBtDLr5Opo5gMJcliPMYA3PnqWFA68T0eJ9PdsZ6w2TiwcbqDzJXELziflQxBQO4rfrBDoyybkhfBl034nncGel4gGnEYvrkllYr3z_7Vh4LQg2oI0cif8J8NX3HgSvxCpROjLn88xkA/s900/E7VWCHGMAMI6TFE6IBWI6S7HAY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="900" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRPQtp6U4hJK7IyVYbqMtWuFpQoPCTuGNDB2amD3KVabVOOzBtDLr5Opo5gMJcliPMYA3PnqWFA68T0eJ9PdsZ6w2TiwcbqDzJXELziflQxBQO4rfrBDoyybkhfBl034nncGel4gGnEYvrkllYr3z_7Vh4LQg2oI0cif8J8NX3HgSvxCpROjLn88xkA/w400-h225/E7VWCHGMAMI6TFE6IBWI6S7HAY.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">There are some serious omissions to SOUTHLAND - we do not get any insight into the victims’ and perpetrators’ lives as we move on to the next episode. This is a series that unapologetically spotlights the Hollywood police department in Southland - a nickname for the greater Los Angeles area. I definitely recommend it so we too can condemn and praise those who devote their lives and collect pensions to “protect” we the people.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-24062058879889109302022-01-05T20:21:00.002-08:002022-01-05T20:21:31.749-08:00PASSING 1/5/22<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkUvePozGEjnEdS4bYQDACrIi-IduEN52zc46VHg6B2WQOPwaTjQIwZnkEGCQxUaV6W2BNX1iUFyqkYjRp9rz7KDKYrffVCVSXprfBgtOkkhs9C-ts7X7ZXoAuFlYmG_EJawhZRuvayKG_TEFhJbk0vJsRLC4dGDxSpPMyiXH4ixinFN2AYvOqDWlyNA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkUvePozGEjnEdS4bYQDACrIi-IduEN52zc46VHg6B2WQOPwaTjQIwZnkEGCQxUaV6W2BNX1iUFyqkYjRp9rz7KDKYrffVCVSXprfBgtOkkhs9C-ts7X7ZXoAuFlYmG_EJawhZRuvayKG_TEFhJbk0vJsRLC4dGDxSpPMyiXH4ixinFN2AYvOqDWlyNA=w441-h330" width="441" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just watched director and writer Rebecca Hall's outwardly hushed film, PASSING on Netflix; a movie that proceeds at a seemingly slow pace, appropriately filmed in shades of black and white punctuated by moments of piercing clarity. There is a lot to contemplate - layers of constricted definitions that burst open when penetrated by the light of self-awareness, and at the same time often remain sequestered by fear and the comfort of routine. This is a beautifully complex film with boundaries that shatter who we think we are.</span></span></span><p></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8vrr" data-offset-key="ac9q8-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ac9q8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ac9q8-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8vrr" data-offset-key="fed5j-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fed5j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fed5j-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Beautifully acted by Tessa Thompson as Irene Redfield- a black woman who lives a comfortable social life in a brownstone with her Doctor husband (Andre Holland) and two young boys in NYC's Harlem of the 1920s. There is often a feeling of aloofness and desolation whenever the camera focuses on her face indicating uneasiness about her life. She is kind and a loving mother but also wants the outside world to not penetrate her cocoon of illusions. Irene also has a maid named Zu (Ashley Ware) who she treats with uncaring remoteness - behaving similarly to the way matriarchs had behaved to their ancestral servants. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8vrr" data-offset-key="9njen-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9njen-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9njen-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8vrr" data-offset-key="ae6nt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ae6nt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ae6nt-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One day Irene is shopping and seeks refuge from the glaring NYC heat in a Hotel and sees a childhood friend who is momentarily unrecognizable at a nearby table talking with a man who turns out to be her husband, (Alexander Skarsgard.) This sensual, blonde woman is the vivacious Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga) who is passing as "white", having "erased" her former identity.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8vrr" data-offset-key="7lro4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lro4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7lro4-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f8vrr" data-offset-key="dtn7o-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dtn7o-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dtn7o-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">PASSING has no easy answers to questions of race and identity. Tessa becomes enlightened observing Clare returning to and embracing the beauty and strength of black culture. The movie has a mysterious longing; jazz and a trumpeter's music is woven through the film creating a pattern of pathos that makes it even more commanding.</span></span></div></div>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-30680132152278492812021-11-25T11:18:00.004-08:002021-11-25T11:21:29.053-08:00ISA GENZKEN REFLECTIONS ON HER MOMA EXHIDBITION 2014<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXByS1a9OpffC1pF3HYLzpqg0fGoH8bAQsMfNm-gTniGjIug2qwVtsE2FpLAsQ2rdNEl7s6TO1tBjthQUnY9XmPYaopTJjk33SpSLy9A6Zxw0WmH9oLtff-PSXaHZB8TeamzWf-IzZ1ZZa/s1362/ISA+GENZKEN+IN+HER+STUDIO+1982.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="963" data-original-width="1362" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXByS1a9OpffC1pF3HYLzpqg0fGoH8bAQsMfNm-gTniGjIug2qwVtsE2FpLAsQ2rdNEl7s6TO1tBjthQUnY9XmPYaopTJjk33SpSLy9A6Zxw0WmH9oLtff-PSXaHZB8TeamzWf-IzZ1ZZa/w400-h283/ISA+GENZKEN+IN+HER+STUDIO+1982.png" title="Isa Genzken in her Studio - 1982" width="400" /></a></div></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Isa Genzken in studio - 1982</span><br /><p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1345</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2008/may/isa-genzkens-proposals-for-ground-zero</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts. Founded by Walter Gropius with the idea of creating a "total" work of art in which all arts, including architecture, would eventually be brought together, it operated from 1919 to 1933 when the Nazis shut it down.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isa Genzken’s stunningly moving retrospective both utilizes and repudiates Bauhaus legacy, brashly demonstrated by a seminal work entitled "Fuck The Bauhaus". Her retrospective surprised me with its range of experimental approaches, giving voice to a uniquely personal view of life – from the frottage oil paintings that looked like aerial views of bombed-out/flattened terrains to the glitzy pedestal sculptures.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I entered the Isa Genzken show at MOMA I was floored by the beauty of an installation depicting large formally pristine kayak-like shapes lying on the ground (“ellipsoids” and “hyperbolos”) – having no contact with one another, but hovering alongside each other with a do-not-touch-beauty that is rarified. Then I turn around and the aesthetic has shifted. I chuckle to see cement blocks anthropomorphized with T.V. antenna’s shooting out of their heads – inanimate becoming animate, making a point about materials – industrial materials in particular which often seem remote and inaccessible – but now like a magnet I approach what was once unapproachable.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYUwvVCrewsESgO_4zIDavm0S7kQe6ezjYbwjW7FhW6AaL1oJk6WZS9f0tkNpBaPk7yb3abKXexv6QfxGY9e22WWBqPsJrP9PmYIHA5dKT-izWwkOWk-DhREocwXJf4lEhBypgYbx82QkI/s1177/RED-YELLOW_BLACK+DOUBLE+ELLIPSOID+%252252IN%2522%252C+1982.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="1177" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYUwvVCrewsESgO_4zIDavm0S7kQe6ezjYbwjW7FhW6AaL1oJk6WZS9f0tkNpBaPk7yb3abKXexv6QfxGY9e22WWBqPsJrP9PmYIHA5dKT-izWwkOWk-DhREocwXJf4lEhBypgYbx82QkI/w400-h323/RED-YELLOW_BLACK+DOUBLE+ELLIPSOID+%252252IN%2522%252C+1982.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Red-Yellow-Black Double Ellipsoid "52IN", 1982<p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p></blockquote></blockquote><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The whole show is one of contradictions in the service of Isa Genzken’s singular humanity. She tosses off previous restraints, and I imagine her saying “fuck it – I NEED to do this!” And she does. Experimenting with materials – all kinds of detritus from the mechanical/manufactured culture to the throwaways of the consumer-merchandising sphere.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Scale dominates the show not only the physical but the psychological reaches of hierarchy and structure, often woven together - most evident in a group of building columns transmuting into intimate portraits of good friends – each subtly individualized. We are tossed around by architectural scale reduced to accessible mortal proportions.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWckGg823L0Vfhsrm4cuqou-H79sVf1lwp0jnQdJiI1zLtfXHpj1pIeYUebWsnFVfjNTYYn3JQ1ErsclJL2FxlubgrP9_gWSs_iEKMcHYPXICT5O0JZU7Blpep3rBUn1_OjAgHrkwTJ2v/s1064/ISA+GENZKEN+FUCK+THE+BAUHAUS+2000.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1064" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWckGg823L0Vfhsrm4cuqou-H79sVf1lwp0jnQdJiI1zLtfXHpj1pIeYUebWsnFVfjNTYYn3JQ1ErsclJL2FxlubgrP9_gWSs_iEKMcHYPXICT5O0JZU7Blpep3rBUn1_OjAgHrkwTJ2v/w400-h371/ISA+GENZKEN+FUCK+THE+BAUHAUS+2000.png" width="400" /></a></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Fuck the Bauhaus #4, 2000</span><br /><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">American capitalistic scope and power are explored; the underbelly of shame and greed, the global reach of violence and mayhem are presented in assemblages utilizing whatever objects (toy cars, dolls, fast-food wrappers, etc.) and materials that are necessary to vent her anger at man’s inhumanity to man. These assemblages employ scale to great emotional effect ie: a building structure becomes larger because a small plastic tree is placed in the tableaux, delicate and fragile; a dreamlike ornament floats next to blood and terror. Installations are ripped from the headlines - the assault on a young schoolgirl being witnessed by her classmates’ cell phone pictures – a room reeking of horror and voyeurism.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isa Genzken was in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, and there is a room devoted to her apocalyptic architectural proposals for Ground Zero that includes a Church, Disco, Hospital, and Memorial Tower. Monuments that do not memorialize but instead bear witness to the act of destruction itself. In Car Park miniature cars are upended in a cage-like structure that is devoid of any possible movement or passage. The journey has ended.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isa Genzken’s exhibition can be unabashedly gaudy wrapping the fragility and vulnerability of the human condition with the rubble and sediment of everyday objects. The result is painful and piercingly tender. The sadness enraptures.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-52876262580524138912021-11-19T11:07:00.005-08:002021-11-19T11:46:32.759-08:00BELFAST<p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7oEXYAAN30KXCVI_jelkIReAEUzlwC2i7aGl2eKNE-qibdD5QA1yyvVg0HaXCEZV5M1qkebyFTuS2u7GX8EI3yV0jMEmVKqt_c0fZ3ybPk3JQegWOMJIEBCoHTNeP2ZQ9pBtlnBkXQBJ/s1200/belfast3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7oEXYAAN30KXCVI_jelkIReAEUzlwC2i7aGl2eKNE-qibdD5QA1yyvVg0HaXCEZV5M1qkebyFTuS2u7GX8EI3yV0jMEmVKqt_c0fZ3ybPk3JQegWOMJIEBCoHTNeP2ZQ9pBtlnBkXQBJ/w400-h209/belfast3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">BELFAST - a film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh is a love ballad to the city of his birth. Most of the actors were also born in Belfast except for Judi Dench (who gives her best performance in years.) Filmed almost entirely in black and white - noir turned on its head - with vivid color blasting into the picture frame when the characters are at the local movie theater or referencing life outside the realm of the small late 1960’s Belfast neighborhood at the beginning of the period of strife in Northern Ireland that is known as “the troubles”.</span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is also a domestic story as seen through the eyes of an observant nine-year-old boy “Buddy” who is becoming more aware of the growing strife that will eventually befall Northern Ireland. Belfast is seen as a community that embraces both Catholics and Protestants - everyone knows everyone else and looks out for them regardless of their religious beliefs. There is a collective feeling of shared encumbrance and tender loyalty to place.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">BELFAST begins with violence - portending the future, though the film does not mire itself in blood and guts. Rather it concentrates on Buddy, his brother, grandparents, and parents - seeing the whole picture from the view of one frame which encompasses an entirety. His father “Pa” (Jamie Dornan) is away working in England coming home every two weeks. His mother, the beautiful Irish actress “Ma” (Caitriona Balfe) rules the roost while her husband is gone and is fiercely devoted to her family-a tigress protecting her young-racing down the street to protect them or in a scene dancing with her husband both breathtaking in their elegant moments of visual light in the midst of the gray darkness. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZNzY1FfN96bLKSoSPCzvFhiKc7DolsK_wkKG9qXnRF1R9t43VnNsucqIIIWqYy_5HfZ7p-Qg-TykTYz3ZBw6ZMWPqeR0REDF4BJxBrvpHYQklx8zW98HgUwRazvS0zyWSP667Yf62NsR/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZNzY1FfN96bLKSoSPCzvFhiKc7DolsK_wkKG9qXnRF1R9t43VnNsucqIIIWqYy_5HfZ7p-Qg-TykTYz3ZBw6ZMWPqeR0REDF4BJxBrvpHYQklx8zW98HgUwRazvS0zyWSP667Yf62NsR/w400-h400/1_jamie-dornan-belfast.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>The extended family includes the wonderfully wise grandfather, “Pop” Ciaran Hinds who his grandson Buddy adores, and his wife “Granny” played by Judi Dench - not glamorized but a realistically looking grandmother with an edge that comes with living a life of both coquettish love and furrowing fatigue.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGj_S3aSuj6LN2Rg3_H-Ui37Ir_AXhyphenhyphenwET7csKiPa3zQn8InHezhBo1B0_2p_ea7-VhpDZb8ksC5YmdDTTw4x5JBfRDh_rPVo_jp3jESfyG7xxFWQVd2UhR-QgP4N3TmUsxkHe9jl7XDV/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGj_S3aSuj6LN2Rg3_H-Ui37Ir_AXhyphenhyphenwET7csKiPa3zQn8InHezhBo1B0_2p_ea7-VhpDZb8ksC5YmdDTTw4x5JBfRDh_rPVo_jp3jESfyG7xxFWQVd2UhR-QgP4N3TmUsxkHe9jl7XDV/w640-h240/belfast-hero-1634840430105.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As the fighting escalates between Catholics and Protestants the decision whether to leave or stay in Belfast - a city that has enveloped and insulated them since birth is a difficult one and the crux of BELFAST. There is poignancy, warmth, and kindness portrayed in this film and I shed some tears - for me always a sign of sentiment - not sentimentality.</span></div></div>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-79119822066840785102021-11-06T16:33:00.008-07:002022-01-08T07:27:13.588-08:00THE FRENCH DISPATCH 11/6/21<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdm9XgBTfJsK37CP-oa-L6moTw7SsSP0UnuctUWG1iJ-dXKubLRmvoJ2x2zbXBlAoY0wEwNd7b28m2HuH9svhV4sRy9tl3viL6CQlN_1lxt3iDpk1eRumvX5-P7HfCr4tBN8AB8ydWCDqwWzHwe2uSzpd_NZU_LLxSRiYQBnoxVtE2yRj8h9ndAAfxGQ=s488" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdm9XgBTfJsK37CP-oa-L6moTw7SsSP0UnuctUWG1iJ-dXKubLRmvoJ2x2zbXBlAoY0wEwNd7b28m2HuH9svhV4sRy9tl3viL6CQlN_1lxt3iDpk1eRumvX5-P7HfCr4tBN8AB8ydWCDqwWzHwe2uSzpd_NZU_LLxSRiYQBnoxVtE2yRj8h9ndAAfxGQ=s320" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I</b></span><span class="s2" style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><b> finally went to the movies after almost 1 3/4 years AND<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gleefully bought a bag of "movie" popcorn which had its own smell perhaps coming from the rancid oil which might contribute to its wonderful taste. THE FRENCH DISPATCH directed by Wes Anderson who I feel is one of the most original filmmakers working today is a love letter and a burlesque of THE NEW YORKER magazine from the 1960s including its typography.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The film's structure also references the Sunday NY Times with its different sections -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a partitioning of tales -ie: Arts and Leisure, Design, etc. This is a sophisticated movie which I really believe will leave most audiences totally baffled.</b></span></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Bill Murray is the Editor-in-Chief who supports his writers, giving them a lot of freedom to communicate in their own styles -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>allowing lengthy stories on what is au courant and at the same time is fastidious about punctuation. Many of the New Yorker writers of that period are mentioned - not by name but by reputation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unbeknownst to my friend who accompanied me her father who wrote for the New Yorker for over 30 years is referred to and in the closing credits, his name appears along with A.J. Liebling, William Shawn, Harold Ross,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mavis Gallant, etc. That was a poignant surprise for me - and I am sure for her as well. Regretfully that was my only emotional moment. I laughed a bit; felt nostalgic revisiting the history of my youth and loved seeing Anderson's gorgeous visuals of a fictional French city, and the animation which he throws into stories giving them added spice and beauty.</span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE FRENCH DISPATCH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>begins with Owen Wilson riding around a fictional town alluding to The New Yorkers' TALK OF THE TOWN - a delightful prelude to the stories to come, though the stories themselves were often silly despite hitting the "commercial" mark like an arrow that arrives at its target bent in the process. The very first narration mocked Abstract Expressionist art depicting artists as lunatics<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- yes can be hilarious for some, but hit this artist like a sledgehammer - too hard and too obvious and almost Trumpian in its pedestrian sarcastic viewpoint.</span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">There were also enough famous actors cameos to be a complete distraction trying to figure out "now who is that person????" Despite it all, I am glad I went. The theater was almost empty - maybe 6 people watching, it was great to leave the world of lights for one of darkness with my eyes glued to a screen larger than 21 inches.</span></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><div><div class="l9j0dhe7" id="jsc_c_301" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="l9j0dhe7" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 gs1a9yip g5ia77u1 mtkw9kbi tlpljxtp qensuy8j ppp5ayq2 goun2846 ccm00jje s44p3ltw mk2mc5f4 rt8b4zig n8ej3o3l agehan2d sk4xxmp2 rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 a8c37x1j mg4g778l btwxx1t3 pfnyh3mw p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x tgvbjcpo hpfvmrgz jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso l9j0dhe7 i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of du4w35lb lzcic4wl n00je7tq arfg74bv qs9ysxi8 k77z8yql abiwlrkh p8dawk7l tm8avpzi" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158891210744576&set=a.40238189575&__cft__[0]=AZX5KIerb-YzO2my2NERfRGI8n1BB6VOH73rJWec_xTccNHPIDfBwhSH32I76RyyIpYdO8fZNdCfE-h-91brnUU6FNrj641l_QwK_MD_IAhU9HtfMjKJBnIEZr39DPVw2p8&__tn__=EH-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxZzLRFyZHNNph6rg5e9GmEIX4u2dtg5JySSFfegoWtsuYi5fVbnVScQ07wNiN-3C8OiL7AygvoXXplsOMpYtEHSUMp4e7Cn-VRjYH_XCntWXRsMJJz1pcXU546AxF5F-2vuJ8_AZxvZ4L/s1500/IMG_0997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxZzLRFyZHNNph6rg5e9GmEIX4u2dtg5JySSFfegoWtsuYi5fVbnVScQ07wNiN-3C8OiL7AygvoXXplsOMpYtEHSUMp4e7Cn-VRjYH_XCntWXRsMJJz1pcXU546AxF5F-2vuJ8_AZxvZ4L/w480-h640/IMG_0997.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica;">I met Alice Neel in 1979 when I showed large nudes in Soho and she walked into the Gallery and shrieked "look at that c-nt upon viewing a foreshortened naked woman! At the time Neel was doing a print with a friend who was exhibiting in the next room so she loyally came to see her work.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alice was a real character -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>who could be both generous and difficult,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>passionately connected to the people who inhabited her world(s) be they political, familial or, the neighborhood denizens. I have always felt a real affinity to her choice of subjects since I too paint the "world in which I walk".</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum is a MAJOR retrospective... exhausting in the number of pieces that are hung to the point where I felt some more editing could have been done. BUT "old friends - familiar paintings" were there and looked as fresh as ever. I LOVE seeing her still lives and cityscapes. The color is radiant and Alice's sense of structure is evident - white becomes a color that allows air to enter and surround the painting space so we can breathe more easily. Some paintings are satirical, others are so true to the character of the person that they are often deemed as cruel; others hone in so sensitively to the fragility of being human, that I weep for the model's future navigating life's often harsh demands.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her heart is visually open to view; sex is not taboo - many of the men she cohabited with are depicted before and after fucking, revolutionary at any time. Motherhood including the tragedies that she endured are presented, as well as hospitalization brought on by the burdens of grief and anguish after the loss of her baby daughter to Diptheria at 1 year old.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alice Neel looked like a country lass - rotund and apple-cheeked hanging out with the Bohemians and revolutionaries/anarchists of her time. Her journey included living in Cuba, Greenwich Village,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>among other places, and since the mid-1960s on the Upper West Side in a large apartment where her paintings were stored and she set up a studio section to paint.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This exhibition is worth seeing. I believe that Alice's painting style was uniquely her own often portraying hands and feet as if they were afterthoughts<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- appendages that exist -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but are not crucial to a painting - yet when they were NEEDED she knew how to emphasize them. I am in awe of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alice Neel's spirit - a word I rarely use. She was brave, original, taking risks, and indulged her curious nature -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the highest compliment I bestow on another artist.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRzvLJUt3n0oq52Wpq9oGETh-XW5qDScMRudGhKhyphenhyphenHlWr9R8R002SJn2wSbWOJ1r3eOaSRSaAL4A1QaN2LBteC9pwaQc6httJ7pnidP77g-XpYbbaORBijdyUkqI3yw4-ACTzwDHYRw8Yu/s1500/IMG_0998.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anyone who subscribes to HBO Max should try to see THE INVESTIGATION - a Danish six-episode series based on a true story about the investigation into the brutal death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall in 2017 who finally gets a long-sought interview with a Danish inventor (whose name is never mentioned} on his self-built submarine - scheduled for a 2-hour ride which turns out to be eternal.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The story is beautifully conceived - we never meet the perpetrator or the victim. Rather, we get immersed in the tediously fascinating efforts of gathering clues, documentation, and relevant data crucial in order to convict the offender in a court-of-law. The heroes and heroines are those who give up their time and personal lives examining facts. searching for the "what happened?" to find the moment of “truth" to build their case. Often that inquiry involves emotional and painful discoveries that most people would be unable to bear witnessing.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjov2YQ7nZwNS2GvH7s0WGEenz8hz5Vh-ZsvOcQDio-gGl9zL86dpMQQpT9JfNf68gmfw9dOaT8F2JF8eSud23oPaGykvLU-OYiQ23KmjqZ3cYarBgbBALGeQ2u-5OWBYJEOgZu5f7SWAs_/s1086/NYET311-828_2019_161942.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="1086" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjov2YQ7nZwNS2GvH7s0WGEenz8hz5Vh-ZsvOcQDio-gGl9zL86dpMQQpT9JfNf68gmfw9dOaT8F2JF8eSud23oPaGykvLU-OYiQ23KmjqZ3cYarBgbBALGeQ2u-5OWBYJEOgZu5f7SWAs_/w400-h320/NYET311-828_2019_161942.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What makes THE INVESTIGATION<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>so powerful is its silence. The long pauses, the flashes of understanding between the team of detectives, prosecutor, forensic pathologist, and most importantly the deep sea divers whose work is critical in unearthing necessary evidence. During the restrained waiting, the loudest sounds we hear are from the sea - the water and waves rippling along the currents as the divers jump into the black unknown in order to find objects that one would think could never be found in this vast expanse of nature whose horizon is limitless. I was most intrigued by the precise minutia - the people who study the science and plot the mathematics, of finding a “needle in a haystack” alongside the mundane - the extra-ordinary - “cadaver dogs” who can smell the release of body gasses that rise from the bottom of the sea and can pinpoint exactly where the divers should splash into the water and explore.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPlNUEW300wZiISqxcwjIJhVXcpOSZRPrX1Mx3o2WzsaskErKmqWuyREL-Wykno8ec9k6XOL2ytBKGA6KwEsdVA2bGDWH9BcdigXE1otemYsi7al8nlNDD1ijHD-I1pT3VYCH32Zeaapzz/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPlNUEW300wZiISqxcwjIJhVXcpOSZRPrX1Mx3o2WzsaskErKmqWuyREL-Wykno8ec9k6XOL2ytBKGA6KwEsdVA2bGDWH9BcdigXE1otemYsi7al8nlNDD1ijHD-I1pT3VYCH32Zeaapzz/w640-h360/p093wz6q.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Director Tobias Lindholm’s approach is non-sensational. The actors are perfectly cast - Soren Mailing as Chief of Detectives does not say much but his seemingly impassive face reveals more than reams of dialogue. His concern, kindness, and appreciation are revealed by a modest touch on the shoulder - a gesture of thanks. The murdered journalist’s parents were beautifully cast - Rolf Lassgard and Pernilla August appeared so natural that I never felt they were acting - they existed in a world of grief and unyielding strength which was both agonizing and noble in their endurance.</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixWTj7VxHc0XMVyIKnK9qr5_AB8b0U9W63C9spVBZTTON6L8HnuCFk7TsxMIHEhn_QlsgxE3ChjYKCZEx3TnHX0Ey-HAat1G7NH42Bt0AS6UP7lKd9tFpB6565qVi2zQAY9Mo_YGhOSVOx/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixWTj7VxHc0XMVyIKnK9qr5_AB8b0U9W63C9spVBZTTON6L8HnuCFk7TsxMIHEhn_QlsgxE3ChjYKCZEx3TnHX0Ey-HAat1G7NH42Bt0AS6UP7lKd9tFpB6565qVi2zQAY9Mo_YGhOSVOx/w400-h225/p093x0gj.jpg" width="400" /><br /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The quiet of secrecy, the anticipation of discovery, the beauty of courage and resilience is sorrowfully disclosed in THE INVESTIGATION.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfh42Qb6tzxEOqVGcW2bL4kwVPz1qoJ4Kn2tzOTGO9ZuWpagEhUrkZJEz_5I5PlAs33XQK9eVaZlQQCBWQmRxhppTq45029yBDjZX5hmfbdvbta6u7DjX9Mz8RyKskoxnBINftF0fKZMf/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfh42Qb6tzxEOqVGcW2bL4kwVPz1qoJ4Kn2tzOTGO9ZuWpagEhUrkZJEz_5I5PlAs33XQK9eVaZlQQCBWQmRxhppTq45029yBDjZX5hmfbdvbta6u7DjX9Mz8RyKskoxnBINftF0fKZMf/w640-h360/images.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-90049303161468709362020-11-17T17:29:00.003-08:002020-11-17T17:29:41.903-08:00MY MISTER on Netflix 11/17/20<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1L9BLH_NpetjB5NFslxQJpZ0ia8j8dRuuylzwhk3sfTUAWqtrZMDMKOLH9MLMLOVlCwzxy2ZCAXGniXedkw5BnbCfOmstPvsmElKNQYvkG_OUqtrHtBnFy-NMPZjmZF40jEZk8b7Xdsfc/s2048/My_Mister-tep01trailer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1364" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1L9BLH_NpetjB5NFslxQJpZ0ia8j8dRuuylzwhk3sfTUAWqtrZMDMKOLH9MLMLOVlCwzxy2ZCAXGniXedkw5BnbCfOmstPvsmElKNQYvkG_OUqtrHtBnFy-NMPZjmZF40jEZk8b7Xdsfc/w306-h460/My_Mister-tep01trailer.jpg" width="306" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49VuCcxb8JRyCQ5l_6gKg89LFkp8kPrTGSAlsMl_D2Dmpc-efbqYqK_cH9VuzFj-ovpiYjV303pgM0IBlWoYILxctVH5Ig05rwpiyVdfaROLIS49pWlPKMHTr_Vz_zgnn-_4lVT7IWQ92/s1242/5c9aac26cbfdabedf2c376d24bf1cc5d.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="846" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49VuCcxb8JRyCQ5l_6gKg89LFkp8kPrTGSAlsMl_D2Dmpc-efbqYqK_cH9VuzFj-ovpiYjV303pgM0IBlWoYILxctVH5Ig05rwpiyVdfaROLIS49pWlPKMHTr_Vz_zgnn-_4lVT7IWQ92/w287-h421/5c9aac26cbfdabedf2c376d24bf1cc5d.png" width="287" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">MY MISTER is a Korean 16 part series on Netflix that is deeply human, filled with diverse characters that I cannot get out of my heart or mind’s eye. I truly miss them now that I have finished the series which has lightened me with delight amidst piercing sadness. Despite confusing corporate-culture rankings, despite some overbearing shouting, despite constant drinking, while philosophizing about where lives have gone or are going, there is a kindness and a genuine caring about friends and family that is simply expressed - a sensitivity to others that is rarely seen because it is so silent - facial expressions reveal more than words can.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Throughout the series - there is a lingering feeling of sadness and loss conveyed between the two main characters speechlessly, which I found mournfully eloquent with its unpredictability adding to the mystery of communication and the conflicts that we must endure to just move along.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Class hierarchies and societal norms are fascinating to witness - “saving face” is evident at the highest levels of business to the delicate interactions during mealtimes; eating and socializing express one’s fragile connections. From the highest CEO to the lowest paid worker, each individual’s compassion is revealed even if fleetingly.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">A man in his 40’s working as a Structural Engineer, aware of slowly dying from desultory despair. despite being considered a success in the eyes of his family and peers, is caught in a maelstrom of intrigue with a poverty stricken, street smart 21-year old waif who finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy that over 16 episodes alters both their lives and those around them.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is the “romantic” but not “romance.” There is loyalty born out of love<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and need and nurtured by inner strength, and there are beautiful, poetic views of a neighborhood in Seoul which is close knit and protective of their inhabitants. There is also meanness and violence in the shady underbelly of every community but sometimes there is honor among the most ignominious thieves.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-26447789364745973302020-10-21T13:43:00.007-07:002020-10-22T11:34:00.734-07:00SCHITT'S CREEK 10/21/20<p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho25LJDK8lRm6qplt2_h5S-SPzsn9hNgrmiL8k3JZ8cx5q2QdIT0mny2R7vhc6PiRPxD_jVLyj5Z5is00d7S4P9yts93lkNgqi46YdlDR5w7e4yOQw4N9BPNlKf3u6JV_XySI7Kbjv_LlR/s1486/ca-times.brightspotcdn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1486" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho25LJDK8lRm6qplt2_h5S-SPzsn9hNgrmiL8k3JZ8cx5q2QdIT0mny2R7vhc6PiRPxD_jVLyj5Z5is00d7S4P9yts93lkNgqi46YdlDR5w7e4yOQw4N9BPNlKf3u6JV_XySI7Kbjv_LlR/w443-h294/ca-times.brightspotcdn.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I resisted seeing the Canadian show SCHITT’S CREEK (6 seasons) believing that the title evoked BEVERLY HILLBILLIES redux, unaware that Eugene Levy who with Christopher Guest co-authored the screenplay of BEST IN SHOW<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>twenty years ago was involved and that this Netflix series was a “family affair.” I needed a break from my usual murder/serial killer viewing; the election and de-election of Trump had enough horrific drama to satisfy my inner “blood-thirsty” nature, so I finally listened to a friend and tuned in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And I began to laugh out loud!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Campy, funny, a fashion delight wrapped up with idiosyncratic characters whose veneer is penetrated bursting open a genuine pathos, heartache, and delightful eccentricities. The characters also become more self-aware without losing the very qualities of arrogance and whimsy that make them so unique.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The series revolves around the Rose family - once extraordinarily wealthy living the jet-set lives of monied millionaires. The family in their former lives valued prosperity above all else and when they are brought down - hints at tax problems, fraud, etc. into poverty with former friends snubbing them, their last resort is to move into a motel in a little town - Schitt’s Creek that they had bought as a “joke” years before, where they now can go and regroup.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitukRzoCEGzG4m_9JB7kVgVbjBckdCCxWYJKPV4vBFxLAVJptFx_7oy6-ySksKNs2jN_PMQReeaI9Dg0OngvfKg5G5nPkUOlNiPbXDv7bV8uFQIxDzPyxs9IpziYzl5XcYjLM_xt9YeB3s/s1200/33d7f5b70d5e99a8d7146ba803114a13e1-15-schitt-creek-3.rsocial.w1200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitukRzoCEGzG4m_9JB7kVgVbjBckdCCxWYJKPV4vBFxLAVJptFx_7oy6-ySksKNs2jN_PMQReeaI9Dg0OngvfKg5G5nPkUOlNiPbXDv7bV8uFQIxDzPyxs9IpziYzl5XcYjLM_xt9YeB3s/w400-h210/33d7f5b70d5e99a8d7146ba803114a13e1-15-schitt-creek-3.rsocial.w1200.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7dR8EZFY3c0FKLnAmjkV1ZwjJUPmROhLn-bJQZIkOA9fRroSJQ6EvSYqKJ9NFdH9OpNgOVZDH-mShuISmFs7OeLcSt40Rp828mdKSuRpohTOe2ptuKHG-DMv87ksB5dC1SSYVq05b-jc/s1000/8fbe2a0a-1471-4c92-ab04-27ad9d58eeb6.sized-1000x1000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7dR8EZFY3c0FKLnAmjkV1ZwjJUPmROhLn-bJQZIkOA9fRroSJQ6EvSYqKJ9NFdH9OpNgOVZDH-mShuISmFs7OeLcSt40Rp828mdKSuRpohTOe2ptuKHG-DMv87ksB5dC1SSYVq05b-jc/s320/8fbe2a0a-1471-4c92-ab04-27ad9d58eeb6.sized-1000x1000.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The husband Johnny is played by a staid Eugene Levy (a former video magnate) who is the cheerleader of his wildly fanciful ex- soap opera star wife Moira (the great Catherine O’Hara) who dispenses volumes of words - her own distinctive language - recklessly poetic, delivered with an unrestrained directness and with an equally strange accent. Her wardrobe and jewelry have been meticulously invented from literally crowning head to extravagant footwear. Her precious wigs (“girls”) which are changed myriad times per 30-minute episode - as are her gorgeous over the top outfits, all contribute to the deliriously visual bravura of SCHITT’S CREEK. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8RilaV-hsJu-v1Gvk27WZsylnUaML2nFqY03svUrJ7Kz1EXM4MobLVuyOlawOD9dAUK7u_gPiJ6n24TsegmMBg2qG2UA6m4Hbg41bIUEyeOjfxqiTMAbZUV5SSuDsdc3ZojL04HUjUcm/s754/Catherine+O+Hara+outfits.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="754" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8RilaV-hsJu-v1Gvk27WZsylnUaML2nFqY03svUrJ7Kz1EXM4MobLVuyOlawOD9dAUK7u_gPiJ6n24TsegmMBg2qG2UA6m4Hbg41bIUEyeOjfxqiTMAbZUV5SSuDsdc3ZojL04HUjUcm/w400-h388/Catherine+O+Hara+outfits.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">The attention to detail of costume and habiliment carries over to the two adult Rose children, Alexis (Annie Murphy)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and David (Daniel Levy) - who became my very favorite characters on the show.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I love when an actor uses his/her body as an integral part of their role. Jennifer Jason Leigh has done that in the past in films and I have loved her work ever since. I now have a new actor to follow - the lovely Annie Murphy who plays Alexis Rose - pulling off overly cute with her sharp shoulders and wrists shrugging and writhing in myriad directions - her beautiful body contorted into a singular personality - one who can charm with a flick of her finger or utter “ew” with disdainful contempt. Yes, she is terribly spoiled - until she no longer is and that is what gives SCHITT’S CREEK such pathos and depth - the characters evolve and become more generous albeit not relinquishing their narcissism.</span><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5SnXn0PpndQG3dMv-t7GqePFLByvQkRQxjGDZLZJuWqIy5uJ1BFgvq4Xk38sZNCphsWcOAcYzgpbS3ikhP1dabTzYH-WpspIa-82ZqMlGkN_prGVYGAhpmdhyphenhyphenU9daDLsdwnDCTGbgdOlf/s845/eddcb8f6beb18b2b90823eba9c45d741.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5SnXn0PpndQG3dMv-t7GqePFLByvQkRQxjGDZLZJuWqIy5uJ1BFgvq4Xk38sZNCphsWcOAcYzgpbS3ikhP1dabTzYH-WpspIa-82ZqMlGkN_prGVYGAhpmdhyphenhyphenU9daDLsdwnDCTGbgdOlf/s320/eddcb8f6beb18b2b90823eba9c45d741.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj35XcdgyffNN0asiD7U3gcQ4_-RIL4QGEGieifkN5XGYnX47Tc-K-moTf5VUy7d7KE_DibWUMB_dwyHhfBeB_wkpHDcX7kN3ige6bnL9mFANnRorLbHsiofBhxM1EMEI-eIGj2QhyL17Eh/s600/78d56a0f3b07bdde3bf32be4b13a3d40.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj35XcdgyffNN0asiD7U3gcQ4_-RIL4QGEGieifkN5XGYnX47Tc-K-moTf5VUy7d7KE_DibWUMB_dwyHhfBeB_wkpHDcX7kN3ige6bnL9mFANnRorLbHsiofBhxM1EMEI-eIGj2QhyL17Eh/w266-h400/78d56a0f3b07bdde3bf32be4b13a3d40.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Daniel Levy who is the real-life son of Eugene Levy, and the person who originally conceived the idea for the show, wrote all the episodes with his father, Eugene. He portrays David Rose - the gay son whose brilliantly splashy persona is evident in the amazing outfits he wears; his biting critiques of the lifestyles of those around him, and whose handsome face is an open book of a person who has learned to overdramatize himself to camouflage desolation. I adore this character and the voyeur in me could watch him for hours as he switches moods and becomes both dismissive and attentive to those around him. He too never apologizes for who he is. The show openly speaks to class differences, and sexual preferences but never preaches. There is a natural acceptance of every character - even the most self-conscious and obnoxious ones.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhijXYxQ9zlvrqVdxFOxpx8MoYVaZ2YtmI4FJE20MCXOcsBzCFRT4jjoLiDk2H4j7-8b8CyJOgOaIhmoMpql5L00w2Z6h1F2tpmn7fo0CJTxCHeivnB5cnd-cPhTJ6cKzQ6q_Tkq4m59BS6/s750/33245703156444129cbdb0ec47a2a135.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhijXYxQ9zlvrqVdxFOxpx8MoYVaZ2YtmI4FJE20MCXOcsBzCFRT4jjoLiDk2H4j7-8b8CyJOgOaIhmoMpql5L00w2Z6h1F2tpmn7fo0CJTxCHeivnB5cnd-cPhTJ6cKzQ6q_Tkq4m59BS6/s320/33245703156444129cbdb0ec47a2a135.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many other actors that round out this ensemble, but I wanted to single out David’s love interest Patrick<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Noah Reid) the pictorial opposite of David - their attraction is intensely delicate and their interactions as partners in business as well as in life are enchanting. I also responded to a woman who is the most seemingly “traditional” of the entourage - Stevie (Emily Hampshire)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- the owner of the Motel - who is full of surprises but reveals them without affectation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuU5ylGJWV-KKRR1Wgh5ddetOXl-h5pxJn14R5xUV3Y6rhsA1z9grkfeNyaHEVvE9SsxqHHRlVkvgZRqcWnWE0lKPWfV8kxKPzRWOVE8aLCc0bG6dznE_Ub5put-zDUkjR-0v-dHSu5op/s750/david-patrick-750.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuU5ylGJWV-KKRR1Wgh5ddetOXl-h5pxJn14R5xUV3Y6rhsA1z9grkfeNyaHEVvE9SsxqHHRlVkvgZRqcWnWE0lKPWfV8kxKPzRWOVE8aLCc0bG6dznE_Ub5put-zDUkjR-0v-dHSu5op/w400-h225/david-patrick-750.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaVUm3BEy31KDxhWdpY3wzt5tV7PbhqAj4TpTkAvJfAkgi8yf13CYYKFyMo_99eGmX_bCVuVCnU1XkQns8VcQ_0uXZkXQiGuqLXRdMOil6hwR_VhmdFJUJOtmWXTE7oMMqYQFNpiaNBXo/s1080/4f54a6653f992b6c2803b84241a4ce77.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaVUm3BEy31KDxhWdpY3wzt5tV7PbhqAj4TpTkAvJfAkgi8yf13CYYKFyMo_99eGmX_bCVuVCnU1XkQns8VcQ_0uXZkXQiGuqLXRdMOil6hwR_VhmdFJUJOtmWXTE7oMMqYQFNpiaNBXo/s320/4f54a6653f992b6c2803b84241a4ce77.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span> </span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a Canadian production. Enough said. Laugh and enjoy.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-87348071997844536372020-09-24T08:05:00.001-07:002020-09-24T08:05:12.558-07:00EVENING 9/24/20<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSR_aUrD-RsaURpeos-Po-954dK1nGfatJJh6Jl7NdZigfiENlGO9XAlomdZQetm9INSL4akrnxFEMmLSfgZnzm3Jbh3WYhP2mXa00O5EmJuoFrIakeK0_QRq3YURedKe3dA6YHVJin90w/s1140/10.+Evening_pastels_cutout+canvas_+77x70+in._+1989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1009" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSR_aUrD-RsaURpeos-Po-954dK1nGfatJJh6Jl7NdZigfiENlGO9XAlomdZQetm9INSL4akrnxFEMmLSfgZnzm3Jbh3WYhP2mXa00O5EmJuoFrIakeK0_QRq3YURedKe3dA6YHVJin90w/w404-h457/10.+Evening_pastels_cutout+canvas_+77x70+in._+1989.jpg" width="404" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening, pastels/cutout canvas, 77"x70", 1989</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am feeling hopelessly disheartened watching our nation slip into autocracy with the Executive Branch making Congress impotent. Hurriedly packing the Supreme Court, in the event that nine Justices become the “decider” in anticipation of the November election -another example of Trump's march to despotism. Cases of blatant murder against black lives are being ignored by a Grand Jury of fellow Americans. Has injustice infiltrated the moral imperative of many of our citizens? It grievously looks that way.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Autocracy/Fascism/Dictatorship/Despotism are words I never thought I would say about a nation whose Constitution includes checks and balances to rein in “abuses of power” - a document admired and imitated around the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I never thought I would use those insidious words about a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>President of this country - the country that my parents fled to in order to save their lives from a maniacal tyrant in 1938. FDR closed the doors and gave in to the Isolationists and Anti-Semites after 1940, but my father and mother were able to enter just in time, while my paternal grandparents never had that opportunity being sent off from their home in Berlin to the “model ”concentration camp - Theresienstadt where they eventually died/shipped off to die. This haunted my parents and continues to haunt me as I view the “war” against immigration today. The detention cages filled with separated children, disease rampant, and an uncaring administration who precipitated this disaster.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/27/14412082/refugees-history-holocaust"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/27/14412082/refugees-history-holocaust</span></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This upcoming election will change our lives. It might precipitate a “constitutional crisis” and the only defense we have is the vote and our voices raised in protest. Covid-19 has made this all the more difficult, but participation will be critical. Time is racing on.</span></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-55678462875189487622020-09-22T04:43:00.005-07:002024-01-31T08:13:48.920-08:00CODED AGEISM 9/20/20<p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6Q5O5XoB9t_bWz0accvQii96lYnw4RtAtAM391Af6UHRZYiA0uGsymmQN-ndURKH3uGo_19McbKHdc6GXweM8gVM0yCLWNI1touFRHZWxwpYSdu4NiUNaXb7lyS_sq0LD5Qak3353Ar7/s1080/Photo+on+9-16-20+at+3.55+PM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6Q5O5XoB9t_bWz0accvQii96lYnw4RtAtAM391Af6UHRZYiA0uGsymmQN-ndURKH3uGo_19McbKHdc6GXweM8gVM0yCLWNI1touFRHZWxwpYSdu4NiUNaXb7lyS_sq0LD5Qak3353Ar7/w400-h266/Photo+on+9-16-20+at+3.55+PM.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I am now an “upper senior” - a term that the woman who hired me to teach painting used for mature students in my class who were over 70 years of age. As I reach the top of the age pyramid I recently decided to publicly reveal how old I was on social media, which I am beginning to believe might have been an ill-considered move. Because I am very active, having often been called “hyper” because of my “bouncing around eccentric personality”- a product of thinking and expressing everything that comes into my provocatively spinning brain, some people took me to be younger than I was chronologically. NOW that they know how old I am they look at me and act differently. Many of my friends and those closest to me advise that I no longer should be spending grueling hours teaching; I momentarily agree when I get home from working and can barely walk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Recovery time might take longer but the process is worth it:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I love to look at art; art from amateurs, art from “real” artists, art from those whose work has wonderful potential, and seeing that potential realized. I love that my eye is as sharp as ever and my critical faculties still clear and incisive.</span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I just started teaching again (outdoors under a tent) during the CoVid-19<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pandemic and several concerned students were telling me to take a break, to rest, to sit down - being lovingly protective - wondering if I would trip or fall while teaching.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One student whispered to me that her mother-in-law had died and would I like surplus boxes of DEPENDS that she left behind. I confusedly looked at her wondering if I am obviously leaking somewhere. I responded graciously that I was fine and had all the paraphernalia that I needed to stay dry at this time.</span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I noticed that some students during pre- Co-Vid times attempted to take my elbow steering me about like a sheep being herded by a snapping dog not realizing that I am fine in the upper echelons of time - despite two knee replacements, some unsteadiness due to dizzy spells,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>worry about the world going to shit, and admittedly moderate complaining….but working all the time on my painting, photography, and writing and basically joyful about who I am and who I have become. Time bequeaths wisdom and breathes life upon a slowly dying body.</span></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></p>grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-3085910905011472302020-01-25T20:12:00.005-08:002020-01-25T20:13:33.008-08:00THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO 1/25/20<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f94v3" data-offset-key="298hq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I just saw a strange, beautiful, surreal film on Amazon Prime titled THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO. I am still reeling from the originality of language, and photography - images shot in fits and starts akin to the way we breathe. The depth of respect that a young man has for his lineage is conveyed through the particulars of architectural detail to the house he believes his grandfather built by hand- a gorgeous building on a hill - emblematic of a San Francisco home that once was more accessible than it is today. There are classic views of the city with its steep high-reaching hills reminding me of the artists Diebenkorn and Thiebaud - who have made the city their own through painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The movie stars Jimmie Fails (who wrote the screenplay) and plays a character of the same name - Jimmie Fails in the film -and his best friend Monty (Jonathan Majors) both having distinctive dreams, taking separate paths but walking together. One is a poet/artist/playwright and the other an admirer of the delicate beauty of reconditioning - working with his hands as a builder and restorer of what is now discarded and forgotten. Yes, there are psychological links to Jimmy Fails' own childhood, living in group homes, broken both mentally and physically, a key to his obsessive need to reconstruct as a form of regeneration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A profound sadness permeates the film mixed with illuminating goodness. The tone and rhythm of THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO will not be easily forgotten. The lives of homeless people who live in cars, on the street, and in SRO's are also not buried from our sight but are seen in this film, as is gentrification and the neglect of our environment - issues conveyed with screams into the winds of change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recommend JUST MERCY - based on the true story of idealistic Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) who opts to move to Alabama rather than work as a corporate lawyer, choosing to become an advocate for prisoners on death row. The movie begins with the founding of the Equal Justice Initiative with the support of local activist Eva Ansley (Brie </span><span style="font-size: large;">Larson:) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1 out of 9 prisoners scheduled to be executed are innocent - and black inmates are the most vulnerable. In this film we see how a good lawyer can change the course of an investigation; we see how money factors in; we see how we are all a hair's breadth away from injustice particularly if you are poor and black; we see police corruption; we see blatant institutional racism and we see generosity and hope.</span></div>
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Stevenson's faith in the power of Congress to rectify unjust laws and the belief that our Judicial System can right "wrongs" brought me to tears in the age of Trump where deceit and cowardice prevail. This is a portrait of a decent, dedicated, brilliant lawyer giving me the confidence to know that there are many more attorneys fighting for those who are helplessly ignored. On a personal note, I have two in my own family and this film showed me again how critical the fight against injustice is. I am so proud of their work.</div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2020 will be a year of reckoning. Will separation of powers be subsumed into ONE power - that of the Executive? Will Congress and the Courts allow a Demagogue to overturn our democracy?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Most importantly will the American people re-elect a man and a Senate Majority Leader who are crushing the very institutions that they were elected to uphold? We are living at a critical moment in history.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When President Obama came to power, the searing wound of racism tore open our society to blatantly undermine Presidential authority. Congress attempted to become all-powerful with myriad Hearings on issues that were resolved many times over and became vehicles of pure propaganda. We were subject to Senator McConnell successfully overturning the nomination of a Supreme Court nominee. Rules were flouted and flipped - a pinhole of injustice leaked out and under Donald J. Trump has become a deluge of venality - facts are now deemed “fake”; scientific data is ignored; the free press has been under constant vilification so that many Americans no longer believe the writings of dedicated journalists; women, people of color, immigrants, Muslims and Jews are denigrated and disparaged as divisiveness and hate have thrown a shadow over the country.</span></span></div>
<br />grace graupe-pillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14812555004423986154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007571184092391053.post-55239759940750906522019-12-16T08:30:00.002-08:002019-12-16T08:34:19.317-08:00RICHARD JEWELL directed by Clint Eastwood 12/16/19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Clint Eastwood’s latest film <i>RICHARD JEWELL</i> depicts the bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and proceeds to expose how justice was perverted by the media and the FBI. The film is timely in that it plays into Trump rallies’ paranoid depiction of “fake news” and a “corrupt” FBI.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> The derisive language of today - even the term "quid-pro-quo" is neatly shoe-horned into the script. </span>In one of the early moments on the screen, there is a poster hanging in a lawyer’s office stating:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>I Fear Government more than I Fear Terrorism</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The poster is faintly seen in the background functioning like a subliminal ad, but the words screamed out at me giving an ideological clue to Eastwood’s <i>RICHARD JEWELL</i>. Yes - there was injustice done to the main character, Richard Jewell who had to endure a trial by the press as we have seen myriad times historically - particularly with the Central Park Five Jogger Case where innocence was sacrificed to the altar of political ambition and hate. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution threatened to sue over the portrayal of their newspaper and journalist Kathy Scruggs, unless a disclaimer was put into the film; their request was rejected by Warner Brothers Pictures. This controversy continues.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">Richard Jewell (an excellent performance by newcomer Paul Walter Hauser) is a young man living at home with his mother (Kathy Bates) who has become obsessed with “law and order” and desperately wants to be a police officer. We find out more about his zealousness in the pursuit of that goal as the movie progresses. He eventually becomes a Security Guard during the Atlanta Olympics and discovers a suspicious package under a bench and calls it in to authorities thereby saving many lives once the pipe bomb explodes. At first, Jewell, who rarely receives accolades - quite the contrary - he has often been derided and mocked for his physical appearance revels in the attention. This time he has made his mother proud. But soon the FBI becomes suspicious- feeling that he fits the profile of a savior/perpetrator and they begin to build a case against an innocent man using “dirty tricks.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jewell needs a lawyer and he chooses a man we have met earlier in the film - a feisty, libertarian, go-it-alone Watson Bryant played by the great under-recognized actor, Sam Rockwell. This character and his voice, I believe is quintessential Eastwood - a man fighting the good fight for the ineffective underdog, a role he has played in movies which has osmotically permeated his being. Bryant’s job is to pull the veil of adoration from Jewell’s eyes and open them up to the reality of injustice so that he will defend himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eastwood’s film is about the manipulation of the justice system by powerful government agents and the press; where any means justifies the proscribed end; familiar to many people who have been caught in a</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kafkaesque web. It is a nightmare that leaves one helpless. My problem with Eastwood’s movie is that there is a thin line between advocating for personal freedom and tainting with a broad brush institutions that protect those very freedoms specifically the press. The portrayal of Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reporter Kathy Scruggs (Olivia Wilde) and the methods she uses to procure classified information from an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) </span><span style="font-size: large;">made me literally groan with disbelief and annoyance;</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Eastwood debases her journalistic skills in favor of a cliched image of a beautiful, sexy bitch with no morals whose story detonates lives. In the process, he degrades the “free press” in a way that catapults us into the “fake news” Trump era. It is frightening.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: large;">DARK WATERS directed by Todd Haynes is a timely film; we witness the abuse of power by our government as well as large corporations. The stealthy methods used to cover-up criminality are clearly articulated and methodically laid out. Sound familiar?</span></span></div>
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