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| Lewis Black | Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis | August 31 | 800.347.0808 | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, New Hampshire | September 1 | 603.929.4100 | South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset | September 2 | 781.383.9850 |
What’s the strangest thing anyone has ever done to you or asked you for after a show?
It’s when they have a daughter that’s 15 or 16 and they tell the daughter to come and sit on my lap and get a hug. And that’s just odd. There’s some level where that’s just not right. You hug them in a very paternal fashion.
Barry Bonds just became baseball’s new home run king. What would you like to be dubbed king of?
There are so many options. I’d say King of the World, but that was destroyed by that movie. I’d like to be known as the King of Hope. That can be a city somewhere, or the king of actual hope.
The founders of the clothing store the Gap recently announced plans to build a contemporary art museum. Any suggestions for exhibits?
The Gap is going to have a museum of art? They should do an entire exhibition of my friend Tom Slaughter. And Mary Lin Yoshimura. Their work is excellent. Instead the Gap will probably . . . it’ll be an exhibition of khaki.
You famously told the Boston Globe in 2004 that you won’t campaign for political candidates, and that “whoever is in charge, I want him out.” Do you still feel that way?Because you strike me as the kind of man who secretly wishes he could be an Obama girl.
Are you serious? At this point in time I have no interest whatsoever in what they’re doing. What’s occurring right now is absolutely shameful and disturbing. It’s like a preview for coming attractions. Come on. When you look up at a sign and see that Shrek 4 is coming in 2008, do you stop the car and write that down?
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- Built to move
The Institute of Contemporary Art, clearly in a nomadic frame of mind as it gears up for its own move to a new building on the Boston waterfront next fall, looks at the surprisingly long history of adaptability in domestic design.
- Flora, fauna, and the female figure
The Art Nouveau movement of the late-19th/early-20th century distanced itself from the mass production of the Industrial Revolution with elaborate, one-of-a-kind works made from unusual materials.
- Bringing back sexy
It seems the Hindu god Krishna and his lover Radha were always sneaking off to some secluded moonlit spot. Slideshow: Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian Painting at the MFA
- Where is the love?
Kelly Sherman spent this spring exploring the ways in which practical, logistical decisions of a wedding cause couples to confront and mediate family relationships.
- Carry on
In Mexico, a woven textile that has long been used by women for carrying children and bundles, as well as for warmth and cover, is the focus of “The Rebozo: A Traditional Mexican Women’s Garment.”
- Desperately seeking shoulder pads
In the glorious fall of 1980, young photographer Amy Arbus approached the Village Voice looking for freelance work.
- The space invader
The Portland Museum of Art’s new exhibition immediately confronts you with the transformative power of John Bisbee’s sculpture.
- Joyride
It is May 1966, in the Prelude Club in Harlem, an Atlantic Records release party.
- Odd and vulnerable
The women in Amy Cutler’s drawings and paintings are odd and vulnerable but sometimes a formidable lot.
- Karma chameleon
“Kesa” is the term for the traditional, oblong prayer robes worn by Buddhist monks in Japan — and this spiritually rich garment is the subject of Betsy Sterling Benjamin’s “A Sense of Place, an Artist's Tribute to the Seven Continents,” which opens at the Peabody Essex Museum on December 16.
- All sewn up
Patchwork quilts, crazy quilts, quilts that tell stories, quilts that point the way to freedom, and quilts that just keep us warm are all part of the rich history of this art form.
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