The technology has always been a wonder, drawing its strength from its capacity to make just about any subject come to life, popping out of the real ground beneath our feet and conjuring up digital apparitions that serve as extensions of our own imagination onto the physical world around us.
In their shared emphasis on modest accumulation, everyday life and roughly worked surfaces and their different approaches to color and scale, these contrasting bodies of work have much to say to each other and us about drawing and its capacity for renewal.
It is a vision that, in the Christian context, is founded on the idea of humanity as having a "priestly" relationship with the natural order: the human agent is created with the capacity to make sense of the environment and to move it into a closer relation with its creator by drawing out of it its capacity to become a sign of love and generosity.
For the week ending Sunday, "Urinetown" had firmly established itself as one of Broadway's most popular musicals, drawing 89percentt of its capacity during the dog days of winter.
The thrill of it all, however, is lost on many of the people use Liberty State Park, where the Cirque du Soleil has been drawing largely capacity crowds during its two-month run.
Caribou Baby, an "eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store" on the border of artsy Greenpoint and Williamsburg, has been drawing capacity crowds to its diaper-free "Meetups," where parents exchange tips like how to get a baby to urinate on the street between parked cars.
(The show drew more than 90percentt of its capacity last week, compared with numbers in the mid-40's a month ago).
NO matter how cool you might think your digital camera is, or how impressed you are by its capacity to draw upon millions of pixels to render stunning images, there always seems to be one in every crowd of potential admirers of the technology who wants nothing less than magic from your camera.
After drawing a capacity crowd of 39,168 for Tuesday's opener, the Tigers drew only 21,405.
They hosted the 2007 N.H.L. entry draft, drawing a capacity crowd on the first day.
