Word: centralism
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...works gain significance through their interrelationships and associations, which Balteo Yazbeck calls “entanglement,” is at the heart of the exhibit. Of course, in any well curated show the individual pieces mediate and enhance each other, but this process is traditionally not its central feature. The gallery brochure cautions against looking for a unifying theme: “To select the grid as a leitmotif for the show might exaggerate the relationship between art and architecture in Caracas. It might also exaggerate the relationship between the grid and Caracas, and the grid...
...experienced in our spectacle-soaked era of reality TV and celebrity worship, in which both ordinary citizens and the famous share center stage.” In lieu of an artist, a movement, or a time period as the orienting category for the exhibition, the unifying theme becomes central for understanding the rationale behind the selection of works. But while the title, introduction, and “Arena” suggest that the exhibition will focus on the gallery as a stage for the art and its patrons, the rest of the works cast the central ideas into confusion. After...
...human nature than the machinations of the various ghouls on display. In that respect “Diary” simply shines. Due to the frequent bouts of narration that sometimes border on the overdramatic, it is almost impossible to leave the theater without understanding Romero’s central theme: in a modern time of crisis, people are more likely to stop and stare than try to help. This point is apt, and never more applicable than now, the era of YouTube, in which one man’s recorded misfortune becomes a complete stranger’s entertainment...
...Central America has, for years, been a dumping ground for unwanted used clothing from the United States, thanks to church giveaways, hurricane relief drives and other charitable and business endeavors. (See video below) The legacy of that goodwill has turned Nicaragua's streets into a living, if slightly tattered, scrapbook of pop culture memories: everything from "Avoid the Noid" and "Party Animal, Spuds Mackenzie," to "I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt...
...spots” as part of the military “surge” last year. “I don’t think that the surge was a strategy, but a tactic,” said Zinni, a former commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. “All along, I felt that we needed more troops, and the surge has definitely had a positive effect.” He added that combined with the Shiite cease-fire and the Sunni Awakening Movement, the surge has had an “exponential effect...