Word: 1990s
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...Take on Old Art? During the 1990s many artists mixed architecture, design and theater inside museum exhibition spaces to create an interactive moment of transformation for participants. As a retrospective of sorts, New York City's Guggenheim Museum has invited artists including Angela Bulloch, Jorge Pardo, and Rirkrit Tiravanija to collaborate on site-specific installations for the upcoming theanyspacewhatever. Carsten Höller, who installed aluminum slides last year at London's Tate Modern, will erect the "Revolving Hotel Room" at the Guggenheim in which visitors can sleep for the night. (Naturally, this opportunity is already sold...
...private conversation with Mandelson to a journalist. Mandelson, he said, had "dripped pure poison" about Blair's successor, Brown. In the normal course of events, that would scarcely have merited a paragraph in the British press. Mandelson and Brown had been embroiled in bitter feuding since the mid 1990s, when Mandelson backed Blair over Brown for the Labour leadership. But Brown's surprise move to recall Mandelson to government trained the spotlight back on their relationship...
...While most Austrian journalists were aware of the allegations about Haider from the early 1990s, they remained reluctant to publish anything - in part, says Hofer, because however polarizing Haider's politics, his sexual orientation was not considered particularly relevant; he may have been sympathetic with former Nazis and favored anti-immigrant policies, but he never opposed gay rights. Many critics also believed that attacking him on personal grounds would only shore up his support among those who considered the media...
...though the list began to lose its luster by the late 1990s, the ever acerbic Mr. Blackwell never lost his bite...
...lessons are taught in Irish - Ireland's indigenous Celtic language. Over the past decade, gaelscoileanna, as the schools are called, have become one of the fastest-growing sectors in Irish education. And though they still only comprise 5% of Ireland's schools, their number has tripled since the early 1990s...