David Zwirner Gallery "Bright Lights, Big City" at David Zwirner in Chelsea is a startling trip down memory lane.
The president's stealthy, startling trip to Iraq on a blacked-out Air Force One accompanied only by a handful of aides and a tiny press pool was intended, White House officials said, to boost the morale of troops, many of whom are disgruntled over their extended and increasingly dangerous deployment and to emphasize his determination to, as he puts it, "stay the course".
His appearance, just before lunch on the second full day of our trip, was startling, lulled as we were into thinking our little band of eight was alone in this moonscape of bunch grass and prickly pear.
Even more startling was their later trip to Hanegi Park, the Savage Park of the title, where kids are free to build their own structures on ground or in the trees, paint with abandon, and cultivate fires as desired.
On Tuesday, a group prayed outside Bibles Plus, a Christian bookstore, and carried signs with pictures of aborted fetuses outside the Albuquerque Museum, a polling site, startling children on a field trip.
The photos Jordan took during his first trip are simultaneously startling, beautiful, and heartbreaking.
FOR a politician acclaimed for his strategic foresight, it is startling that Gordon Brown has been tripped up by events he should have seen coming.
At the dark centre of the poem, she portrays the ancient mariner reliving the trip's Gothic horrors with startling intensity, red-eyed with grief.
Yet despite the fact he'd largely enjoyed his "quite agreeable" trip, and even made a startling attempt at cultural sensitivity, the local paper branded his food-based comments "derogatory" and accused the Top Gear presenter of "slating" the city.
Two years ago, during a trip to New York City, I visited a startling exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
He claims he did not see Baumeister or DeNoyer during his second trip, but he did make a startling discovery.
