I wrote about Kiarostami as well as some usual reviews, for next week's issue.
Officials of the group say quiet outreach has begun to some potential candidates, and the names of some usual suspects are popping up.
Economic events in January, it turns out, were enough to crack the composure of some usual glass-is-half-full types.
The menu is mostly standard northern Italian, with some usual suspects: ossobuco alla Milanese, carpaccio di manzo, calamaretti fritti and scaloppini di vitello alla zingara.
Niko's Bully Hall of Fame includes some usual suspects, like Genghis Khan and Lucifer, but also some unexpected choices, like Garfield ("Whenever that dumb dog Odie got in his way, what did Garfield do? He shoved him off the table").
On the other hand, some usual markers of hotel luxury were eschewed: We had a window air-conditioning unit and no phone, which became liberating, and was mitigated by the free (and reliable) Wi-Fi.
The show includes some usual suspects: examples of Louise Bourgeois's early wood sculpture, of Lee Bontecou's glowering reliefs and of Louise Nevelson's black compartmentalized black sculptures, as well as a plainer, more totemic Nevelson from 1955.
