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At Christmas the temptation is to concentrate on the material stuff – presents – and increasingly this means screens.
GALLERIES — CHELSEA ANDREW GUENTHER The artist devilishly flattens hierarchies of high and low, art and stuff, presenting his paintings and drawings alongside a miscellany of bric-a-brac on shelves — a cross between Carol Bove and Dave Miko.
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While part of that figure comes from too-wishful thinking (the extra pounds never shifted, the clothes that never fit) there's also the more significant story of too much stuff presenting a simple lack of visibility, clouding our judgement regarding what we need or want to buy next.
"This year, I really couldn't afford no presents," said Lois Chadwick, 27, a struggling mother of four who had traveled from the Bronx for turkey, stuffing, presents and diapers.
Beforehand, the mass of something in kilograms was just a measure of how much stuff was present and how resistant it was to being moved around.
He has rebuffed offers from various producers and executives ("the Resurrectionists," Joel calls them) to record standards or old pop cuts, or even to rearrange his own stuff and present it anew.
It is what a good editor, of the Maxwell Perkins variety, would do: cut out the self-indulgent stuff and present a clean story, inhabited by plausible characters — the "taut, spare, driving" narrative beloved of Sunday reviewers.
