Word: abstracted
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...shorthand biographies of Watts and Kaprow reveal a commonality of experience if not direction: both began as abstract expressionist painters, both got master's degrees from Columbia, both collaborated on the Rutgers faculty. And both challenged traditional conceptions of art-Watts with his pop-like manipulation of media and surfaces and Kaprow in his experiments with assemblages, alternative spaces and performance art events which he called happenings...
...Clearly, an exhibition of Flux works should create a space for audience interaction and response, which _Experiments in the Everyday_ fails to do. This is more the fault of the gallery institution in the abstract than of the List Center in particular. Unfortunately, the audience is just as trapped by the gallery institution as the work is behind the glass; the visitors gaze as reverently at, say, a baseball "signed" by Du*rer, as they would at a nativity scene. These works are humorous, shocking, psychologically subversive-and somehow that message has been lost in the translation...
...current fight echoes an earlier argument, over the "New Math" of the '60s and '70s. Then, as now, the old ways were thought to have failed. A small band of mathematicians proposed shifting the emphasis towards a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts, though on a much more abstract level than today's reformers. Math educators took up the cause, but over time, most mathematicians and parents became unhappy with the results. What had gone wrong? Preoccupied with "understanding," the "New Math" reformers had neglected computational skills. Mathematical understanding, it turned out, did not develop well without sufficient computational practice. Understanding...
...find it moving that someone so close to me, who in the abstract would find homosexuality wrong, even sinful, honestly reconsidered her position when it became personal. Margaret's thoughts are mostly with the child, but her thoughts about homosexuality in general have changed too. She has been convinced that these two men can serve as good parents--quite an endorsement in child-rearing, to be approved of by such an expert...
When she won a major competition in Hong Kong in 1983 with a series of abstract paintings, Hadid was a relative unknown in architecture circles...