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...threats and fears, the Constitution is not a delicate artifact. It sits in a helium-filled case over at the National Archives in one of those soundproof, heatproof and humidity-controlled reliquaries designed to protect its every word and wrinkle. Every once in a while, we get to take the Constitution out for a spin...
...that walking through the gallery is like time travel, but the wallpaper and period matting do a great deal to contextualize Day's photographs. What might seem nave, blasphemous, or offensive if it were produced today comes off as eccentric, or perhaps quaint. Day's oeuvre becomes a historical artifact. His style peaked with the relatively modernist Hampstead series, but it reached its apotheosis in the much later "Orpheus" series, which portrays a young boy in the woods holding a lyre. "Nude Youth with Lyre," from 1907, is "Marble Faun" redone at a much higher level of technical mastery...
Fenway Park is an original. Boston prides itself on originals. The historic home of the Red Sox, Fenway Park--commissioned in 1912 before World War I--is an artifact that makes Boston baseball unique. A new stadium in the Fens changes forever the meaning of "Red Sox nation." A new culture of Boston Red Sox baseball will emerge. Will Back Bay become the Manhattan of Boston? Who is getting rich from attempts by Harrington and Menino to make Back Bay and the Fens more like Manhattan and Central Park...
...Harmony intended the film to be an artifact, something which presents all kinds of questions that you have to ask in order to understand its value. The film stands on its own as an artifact--but it's not a conventional narrative...
...know, but I can imagine it being at bottom an act of irony, a means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away...