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...Your abstract sounded interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: As Follows: E-Infiltration | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...Block of Miller Block Gallery at 14 Newbury St. laments that the work of a contemporary art gallery director in Boston is much harder than it is elsewhere, professing that Boston art collectors tend toward the traditional side, with a predilection for the strictly representational and less openness toward abstract and conceptual...

Author: By Jeni Tu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Contemporary On Newbury | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...prefer songs with meanings to which I can relate, so that when I sing along I am uttering words and thoughts and feelings which have a point relevant to my life. Points--not only in math--lead to lines and planes which define dimensions. And in the abstract reality which makes life artistic and worthwhile, it is a complex dimensionality which contextualizes...

Author: By Amy NEDA Vegari, | Title: Listen to Music With a Point | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...described himself as a contemporary architect, and said one of his challenges will be to incorporate his favorite abstract shapes into Harvard's buildings, many of which rely on a conservative Georgian design...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Renowned Architect to Design for Harvard | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...beyond any other--is not a celebration of the future. It's an elegy for the past. As I sit here, on the brink of the fin de millennium, I'm already misty-eyed with nostalgia. I'll miss the 20th century. I really liked it. I liked the abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given my longing for an irretrievable past, I think insularity and exile are the ambient notes to strive for this year, as opposed to your mindless, self-annulling, Leni Riefenstahl-style euphoria. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Believe the Hype | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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