Say what you will about the vicissitudes of the Aboriginal art market, there's no denying that Kngwarreye's paintings are among the most luminous – and instantly recognisable – art produced in the past 30 years.
(Magnolia Home Entertainment, $26.98, PG-13) IRMA VEP A new edition of Olivier Assayas's 1996 comedy about the vicissitudes of auteur filmmaking, about a fading New Wave director Jean-Pierre L dd) who casts a Hong Kong superstar (Maggie Cheung) in an ill-considered remake of Louis Feuillade's silent serial "Les Vampires".
The book was the demure "Sex and the City" of its time, devoured by readers eager to learn about vicissitudes of big-city life.
In Kim Severson's case, it's not just cooking that helps her deal with life's vicissitudes but writing about food — which she has done for The New York Times since 2004 and before that for The San Francisco Chronicle.
In the years between the first and third editions of his autobiography, Benton learned about the vicissitudes of art world acclaim, writing about his experience of denying and then accepting his changed place in American art.
This is an idea that has not escaped Santiago Hinojal, a marketing manager from Jackson Heights, Queens, who cares little about the vicissitudes of high fashion but very much about the kind of clothes that will always remain impervious to them.
The best thing about having his mural at the Whitney is that you can walk around the rest of the beautifully installed fifth floor and see, in things by Alexander Calder, Oscar Bleumner, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth and others, what Benton felt he was up against: art that is more about art than about the vicissitudes of real American life and history.
We find out not only about the vicissitudes of Pavlova's alimentary canal but also about the skeletal structure of her knees, the size of her arch, the height of her jumps, her "sensuous" lower lip and the slope of her "ravishing" shoulders.
Harry once recalled that while working there, his patients talked not only about their medical problems, but also about the vicissitudes of life, prompting his interest in psychiatry.
She could imagine the ease of a slip, a search for that early bliss when all they did was snuggle and drink brandy and smoke crack and have their epic conversations about — about what, the vicissitudes?
