And there are much more pleasant ways of bringing babies into the world".
Calling the paintings "a bridge between Dada and Fluxus and the soon-to-be Conceptual Art," Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times, noted that "their philosophical or linguistic puzzles can stretch the mind in briefly pleasant ways".
I can think of any number of less pleasant ways to while away 88 minutes than to watch the attractive actors in Alexis Lloyd's "30 Beats" couple and uncouple during a summer heat wave in New York.
Last week, the United Nations announced that the world's population had reached seven billion, but there have been times when it headed in the opposite direction, and not in pleasant ways.
To this end, it pits the paintings against quantities of ephemera and some notable, bulkier historical props that sometimes bring the show to a halt in not entirely pleasant ways.
Of course, this year's cookbooks were planned and written long before sticking close to home and hearth was mandated, but they provide plenty of pleasant ways to do just that -- and, as usual, plenty of ways to roam the globe by reading, marketing and then hunkering down at the stove.
