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...televised satellite photo: Iraq from space. The image is maplike and abstract, with S curves for rivers, blurry grids for cities and no sign of people, although we know they're down there. In the next shot familiar forms emerge, accompanied by a sense of depth and volume. According to the retired American general hired by the network to interpret the war, those shoe-box-shaped structures are enemy barracks and that dark broken line is a convoy of armored vehicles closing in on Baghdad from the south. Now move even closer: an empty airport runway, a damaged tank...
...thought about the issue during the past few weeks, especially after the March 22 rally in Harvard Yard, where this had been mentioned by several speakers, but The Crimson’s article gave concrete dollar figures to the abstract notion of war profiteering. This is worth quoting: “With nearly half a percent of its endowment invested in 11 of the government’s 15 top defense contractors, the war with Iraq may have already made Harvard as much as $4.5 million.” And what is even more troubling is that these figures...
...Pusey exhibition includes one of Craig’s model stages in his signature minimalist style. There is also an elegant set of nine miniature screens that evoke forest imagery through the use of abstract, intricate lines. Craig completed the work at the Arena Goldoni during his expatriate residence in Florence...
...where Pollock watched the guests snort in puzzlement. Later came the reviews ("monotonous intensity"). The sales? Two canvases. But within the American avant-garde, a world consumed by disputes that consumed him too, the show was a loudly argued challenge. When the mostly skeptical mass media came around, the Abstract Expressionists, who had been germinating for years, exploded American art onto the world stage for the first time...
...hardcore crosstown football or hockey—men’s or women’s—rivalry would make sense on some abstract level. A crew gang war would defy both logic and description...