But people who have followed me and seen my solo shows know there's a bunch of stuff on cultural identity, religion and race and the finer points of human relationships.
Sex, drugs and violence are the universal stuff of teenage cultural consumption: B should strike an immediate chord with gorehound youth both black and white.
They share borders, a language and plenty of cultural stuff and, when they collide, the intensity burns.
Legs McNeil, the New York fanzine editor who helped coin the term "punk," saw the movement as a rejection of "lame hippie stuff" and other symptoms of cultural exhaustion.
Archetypal images of cultural domesticity (stuff like cheerleaders, synchronized swimmers, and wedding-cake figurines) get humorous and poignant but also aggressive recastings in Wong's art.
If you haven't heard the show, it's about Koenig sticking her white nose into the not-white lives of Lee and the man convicted of her murder, Adnan Sayed, the son of Muslim immigrants, and Kang argues that she gets stuff wrong as a result of cultural differences.
The huge collection of American stuff here — cultural artifacts that are by turns curious, kitschy, useful, soulful or disposable — suggests an eBay or flea-market bender.
Great art can often seem quite cloistered, set apart in its cultural loftiness, the stuff of museologists and finicky, Harris-Tweeded connoisseurs.
The irony is that if the Academy really wanted a lesson in love, or a plea for cross-cultural harmony — the stuff of Oscar triumph, and everything for which "Gandhi" had so earnestly striven — then it was right there, under the noses of the voters.
