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...contains enough useless, boring mock documentation to fill a small library. There are only eight painters out of 81 artists (Holliday brings the count to 82). But that's because it's more or less given that painting is a form of white male domination, implying "mastery." Indeed, the catalog presents quite a riff on this subject when it reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley and Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell...
...catalog confirms the academic bent of the show, with essays of such jargon-filled obscurantism that they go beyond parody. Thus Avital Ronell: "What impresses itself upon us is the fact of finitude's excessive nature, not only because of the inappropriability of its meaning but, as the experience of sheer exposition, because of the way it refuses to disclose itself fully." One would bet $5 that neither David Ross nor anyone else connected with the Biennial could say what such gibberish might mean or translate it into clear English. But that would be a hegemonic transgression on the integrity...
Only two weeks old, the upstart alliance of about 20 student minority organization leaders has protested the lack of diversity at a Junior Parents' Weekend panel, issued a catalog of demands ranging from curricular diversity to increased resources for minorities and christened itself the "Coalition for Diversity...
...students at Harvard can study ethnicity, if they wish. The course catalog contains a five-page listing of courses relating specifically to ethnicity in the United States. From Anthropology 184: The Indian Question in the Americas to Women's Studies 101r: Women of Color in America, from General Education 105: The Literature of Social Reflection to Government 1575: Ethnic Groups in American Political Culture, courses in ethnic studies are available...
...coalition's members tout strength in numbers as the impetus behind their effort, but administrators have yet to issue a direct response to the group's catalog of complaints, which include, the dearth of minority faculty members; the lack of ethnic studies courses; and the allegedly racist comments made by Thompson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...