Word: catalog
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...seven foot puzzle, which hangs on a wall in Tiao’s room in Weld Hall, was a high school graduation gift. As Tiao explains, “My friend was flying home from MIT’s freshman weekend and saw this puzzle in the Skymall catalog.” (In other news, Tiao’s friend may be the first person in history to order something from the Skymall catalog.) It was a perfect gift for Tiao, who evidently has developed a reputation as something of a crossword junkie...
...geometry and improbable interpretations of traditional holiday colors. Instead of red and forest green, we did pink and lime," says Adler. The Hold Everything line includes needlepoint ornaments, left, stockings, felt gift bags and colorful glass votives. Prices range from $6 to $148, and products are available in the catalog and in stores...
...participation-oriented work such as this seems to be that the value it offers to the viewer begins and ends in the participation. You wouldn’t be surprised to find a miniature version of a piece like “Wave” in a Sharper Image catalog or sitting on the desk of some executive. Which is not to say that playing with “Wave” isn’t fun, but rather that it is, ultimately, dumb. At its best this work offers a very immediate satisfaction, but they are more diverting than...
...experiential issues explored in works like “Wave” and began to use his work to launch a much more powerful political critique that reached far beyond the museum context to engage broader social issues. And as Weiss points out in her essay in the exhibition catalog, Charlotte Posenenske stopped making art altogether in 1968 and began studying sociology because, in her own words, “art could not contribute to the solution of urgent social problems...
...file-sharing technology. Two years ago, major studios launched a service called Movielink, which offers movies for downloading to your computer at about the same time they hit the pay-per-view window. Not only do the movies take hours to download, but they also disappear from Movielink's catalog altogether 90 days later, when they enter the premium-cable window. Because channels like HBO and Starz! offer lucrative licensing deals, Movielink has not been able to compete in the latter window. "We'll see this business become a true mass market," says Jim Ramo, CEO of Movielink...