Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jamie Ciocco '94, a non-resident tutor in Adams House, also volunteered to have his breast cast...
About 20 women and men volunteered yesterday to have their breasts cast for an art project designed to incorporate the body into daily life...
...Noise demonstrates that less can be more, Big insists that more is more is more. If ever a musical was aptly named, this is it: outsize sets, a spillover cast, a warehouse worth of shiny toys and enough good cheer to depress anybody. Making a stage musical out of the Penny Marshall film was a good idea, but not an easy one to bring off. That film, about a 12-year-old boy who makes a wish to become "big" and lives to regret that his prayers were answered, had two elusive qualities that get lost in translation: charm...
...hated all cant, including the art world's. One of the bigger pieces at the Whitney is The Art Show, 1963-77, in which the Kienholzes (he and Nancy Reddin were co-authors of all the work from 1972 on) constructed an art-gallery space and filled it with cast figures whose faces were air-conditioning grilles. From these would spout taped readings of art-magazine gobbledygook when you, the viewer, pressed a floor switch...
Kienholz's best tableaus remind you what a long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness...