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...very pregnant black woman struts angrily across a spartan stage, her pink terry-cloth bathrobe barely large enough to fit around her protruding stomach...
...walls are descriptions of SS officers killed by gypsy and Jewish inmates in a desperate attempt to alleviate their own insurmountable suffering. The silk-screened natural linen colored tablecloth that elegantly drapes over a simple table in the room’s center serves as a symbolic burial cloth of all those who have suffered, physically and emotionally. As the final connection, the Auschwitz portal inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” / “Work sets you Free” is constructed of convex mirrors echoing Bronson’s earlier self-portraits which used such mirrors...
Cardboard snowflakes three feet in diameter dangled from dining hall chandeliers at the “Olympiad.” The flags of many nations hung from walls or sprang from centerpieces; bright cloth napkins bedecked the tables. The theme from “Chariots of Fire,” as well as other vaguely martial music, rang from speakers. With cryptic symbolism, a smoke machine belched beside the Annenberg card swiper’s desk. Some dining hall workers were festively clad in funny hats...
...also on view. In early likenesses by Pisanello, Pollaiuolo and Uccello, the subject is seen in strict profile. This gives her remoteness: she doesn't look back at you or acknowledge your gaze in any way. She is on display in all her finery, in scarlet velvet or cloth of gold, in brocade and pearls--an icon of marital success and faithfulness. (The catalog has an excellent essay by Roberta Landini and Mary Bulgarella on the arcane intricacies of status and ladies' fashion in 15th century Florence.) Her existence as a silhouette, an untouchable presence--or rather, apparition--reinforces...
Three summers ago, as an intern at the Feminist Majority Foundation, I cut out little squares of blue mesh fabric, the same fabric that formed the peepholes through which Afghani women wearing a burqa saw the world. I distributed these cloth emblems to Americans, to wear as tokens of remembrance for and solidarity with the women oppressed by the Taliban...