THE NEW YORK TIMES
No Longer Racing at the Speed of Art
Erik Parker says he has never taken a class in color theory. "I just like things to be charged and relentless," he said as he showed a visitor around his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Erik Parker: Crisis Creation
Erik Parker's comically grotesque, neo-psychedelic paintings are a trip. Working under the influence of acid-rock posters, underground comics, Mad magazine, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Peter Saul and Ed Roth, who was known as Big Daddy, Mr. Parker has created a series of zany, neon-bright imaginary portraits...
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ART REVIEW
Post Negative Eugenics - What's That?
The Final Section of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules Elementaires (1998) offers a retrospective account of human development after a 'paradigm shift' in the course of our genetic evolution. That shift occurred,we learn, when one of the book's protagonists, the tragically solitary Michel, a molecular biologist, does evolution one better by perfecting the means (via cloning) to make the process of sexual reproduction obsolete...
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