Search Details

Word: canvasful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

There is no telling what the dozen pretty young girls invited backstage after Incubus' Houston concert expected to find when they made it past security. It is a fair guess that they did not dress in low-riding denim and tummy-baring T shirts to take part in a unicorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Not Your Ordinary Rockers | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

Call it a reality check for those who think Afghan women would be freed from years of oppression if the U.S.-led military campaign brings down the Taliban regime. Osema's ordeal shows that even in the Taliban-free northern swath of the country, women suffer severe discrimination. "Peace will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damned Anyway | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some Options In Abstraction | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

The above “instruction piece” is closely modeled after similar pieces Yoko Ono composed in the early to mid-1960s. Tersely elegant, these simple works, from “Painting to Be Stepped On,” “Leave a piece of canvas or...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: YOKO | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

The chronological layout of the MIT exhibition highlights the major themes in Ono’s work as they developed from her 1961 debut, beginning with her infamous instructions. These radical scripts suggested that art no longer consisted of impersonal objects meant to be studied and admired; instead, the audience...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: YOKO | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | Next