ANNES, England — If the midway point of a golf tournament is like the intermission of a play, then the 141st British Open has all of its notable and skulking characters in place set across a deceptively placid scene waiting to entertain with its hidden peril.
The White House staff, meanwhile, clustered across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House near the historic townhouses of Jackson Place, a far more placid scene than the terrifying White House evacuation of Sept. 11, 2001.
Remember when Banksy purchased a $50 landscape painting from a New York City thrift store, added a Nazi to the placid scene, and then dropped the artwork back off where he found it?
Jutting into the otherwise apparently placid scene, a long, thick, straight dark line angles in from the top.
From that placid scene emerges a sad story of failure: half a lifetime spent in jail and much of the rest in a fog produced by alcohol and drugs.
The placid scene in an island park on the Seine shows a local crowd during a moment of leisure outdoors.
Mr. White's technique ranges from the reductive calm of "Beach With Volleyball Net," a placid midday scene enlivened by the arching diagonal of a split rail fence, to the sketchy intensity of "Red Spring," punctuated by flaming reflections of brilliant color.
It began in 1966, on New York TV station WPIX, with a loop of a placid domestic scene at the Mayor's Gracie Mansion that was broadcast on Christmas Eve.
Luke Painting the Virgin" depicted exactly the placid scene its title describes, but was set in an interior that looked airy, just-cleaned.
You would not have guessed that it was the eve of Hurricane Irene weekend from the placid scene at Lincoln Center on Friday night.
