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...pointed to six identical teapots, some of which were disfigured or broken in different ways. She described each pot, one with no handle or top as being “art because you can’t use it” and another as “abstract expressionism in the making.” The audience laughed, but all were quiet when Ono pointed to a teapot that was in shambles, and said that it was “the World Trade Center, fully destroyed...

Author: By Anat Maytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yoko Ono Installs ‘Mend Piece’ | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

They began conversing and moving around. She then emerged, leaving Jenkins to remain in the bag. Ono took the microphone and began screaming and singing incomprehensible words to the rhythmic beat of drums. With blurry, abstract images of people as a backdrop, she interacted with the audience, moving to different parts of the room, and sang, “Where do we go from here...

Author: By Anat Maytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yoko Ono Installs ‘Mend Piece’ | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Stepping back into more abstract terms, your book feels very descriptive but not terribly prescriptive. So what do you think has caused this transformation in our political process? Who are the behind-the-scenes players...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Joan Didion Takes on the Political Establishment | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

...Discuss, in abstract, the theory of “inevitability.” Tie it specifically to the role of the Yankees in the postseason. Include in your discussion a survey of recent Yankees playoff history, incorporating “clutch” and the return of their offense against Oakland...

Author: By Robert A. Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cacace At The Bat: Break Out The Blue Books | 10/16/2001 | See Source »

...contemporary art world that celebrates expressions of multiculturalism, Fukuda's paintings and sculptures, all abstract, are prized for uniting the aesthetics of south and east. The synthesis comes naturally for him. The grandson of Japanese immigrants, part of a wave of 190,000 people who moved to Brazil during the first four decades of the 20th century, Fukuda, 58, was born in coffee country in Sao Paulo State, where his father had a factory that made fans. Fukuda, who has no formal art training, began his apprenticeship by painting Japanese landscapes on the fans after he came home from school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painter / Sculptor: Bicultural Roots | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

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