Word: bangs
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...years that public art museums have been around, they have mostly arranged their collections academically?by artist, chronology, genre or medium. Lately, however, some museums?especially the ones dedicated to modern art?have been challenging this classical approach. Yet none has done so with the explosive force of "Big Bang: Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art," on view at Paris' Pompidou Center until February...
...Bang is arranged according to eight themes, from "archaism" to "war," plus some 40 subthemes. Its organizers believe that such interdisciplinary shuffles are part of a veritable art revolution. "Contemporary artists are trying to escape academic categories," says Catherine Grenier, the show's curator. "They don't think in chronological terms. They don't want to be classified in one movement. They are not so interested in history?they want to create their...
...opportunity to, as the "Big Bang" catalog says, "make history" presented itself this year when the Pompidou had to install a new fire-protection system. Instead of closing the museum and transferring its contents to some remote arrondissement, the Pompidou decided to stay open and refit one floor at a time. So while part of the building is getting its sprinklers, the Pompidou is squeezing much of its content?an astounding 850 works?into a single floor and organizing it in a novel way. This thematic approach means that you can enjoy a Laurel and Hardy film in the same...
...Conveying the sweep of 20th century art, with its many manifestations, is a tricky business. "History without chronology can become volatile," warned Le Monde's Harry Bellet in an otherwise favorable review of the Pompidou show, "and the 'Big Bang' strongly risks staying in a gaseous state." But volatility can be good, according to Robert Rosenblum, a New York University art historian and Guggenheim curator. "There has been such exposure, in fact, overexposure to 20th century art," he says, "that museums have to shuffle the deck around from time to time for people to see things...
Several Christian positions are theologically consistent with the theory of mutation and selection. Some people believe that God is guiding the process from moment to moment. Others think he set up the universe from the Big Bang to unfold like a computer program. Others take scientific positions that are indistinguishable from those atheist materialists might take but say that their nonscientific intuitions or philosophical considerations or the existence of the mind lead them to deduce that there...