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...Incidentally, this is the major distinction between Prina and the so-called “conceptual artists” working the 1970s. Most conceptual artists tried to strip their art down to the point where it expressed only fundamental concepts. Prina himself may found certain works on fairly abstract??one could even say conceptual—notions, but he also accepts and encourages the contamination of such concepts with historical, cultural and personal associations...
Purdy’s most recent project is an art gallery that includes work from local artists, as well as his own work. The collection revolves around abstract, “semi-abstract?? and realist works. Purdy, who trained at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts School, admits that the art business is difficult. “Art is so intangible that people have difficulty understanding its intrinsic value,” he says. On Mondays and Tuesdays, the space offers a drawing class, during which a model comes to sit for portraits and figure drawing...
...Boston Herald calls the design “risk-taking.” The Boston Globe calls it “aggressively dull, blocky, and abstract?? with nothing to indicate the “joy of human habitation.” The New York Times calls it a “distinctive example of progressive contextualism.” Anupam Mishra, a second-year HBS student, calls it “the ugliest thing since Canaday...
...erected on Holmes Field at the Law School for the four-day Color Lines Conference, Summers said that the academic research presented that weekend was of critical importance to real-world progress, even if it might seem to be “esoteric,” “abstract?? or “theoretical arcana” to outsiders...
...means, discovering ways to pressure and persuade, to seize the city and to impose our own visions of the future, we will never learn how we are to use our newfound power, or what kind of world we should resolve to build. Such questions may be “abstract?? or “academic,” but when it comes to the “urgent needs of the hour,” they are anything but unrelated. If we hope to change the world for the better, we must learn to interpret it first...