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...find it quite paradoxical that a country that champions the concept of democracy is so skeptical of its own government. Rhetoric claims that Americans want a government of the people and by the people, but most Americans deeply dislike being governed by other people. In fact, as your article points out, more and more Americans distrust the people they sent to Washington, and they have decided to take matters, from education to sanitation, into their own hands. Self-reliance is a good concept; however, it does little to build a nation. Is there an America, a nation, a community with...
Fogg Art Museum. Through April 2. "Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection." The concept for the show is embedded in its title: It speaks to the unique qualities of photographic processes, to the history of the medium and to the history of the collection under the steward-ship of the late Davis Pratt...
Guilty of entrancing ourselves with the concept of fame in the world of sports. Guilty of wanting to settle for nothing less than perfection from the world's star-studded athletes. Guilty of putting our youngest and brightest at risk by exposing them to the working world too soon...
Part of the difficulty lies in the very definition of art. As anthropologist Margaret Conkey of the University of California, Berkeley puts it, "Many cultures don't really produce art, or even have any concept of it. They have spirits, kinship, group identity. If people from highland New Guinea looked at some of the Cro-Magnon cave art, they wouldn't see anything recognizable"-and not just because there are no woolly rhinos in New Guinea either. Today we can see almost anything as an aesthetic configuration and pull it into the eclectic orbit of late-Western "art experience"; museums...
...omphalos, the navel and sprirtual center of the world, and 1950's television censors decreed that Barbara Eden's bellybutton could not peek out of her harem out fit on the otherwise ground-breaking show I Dream of Jeannie. But it's not the navel as a historical concept or source of titillation that has been occupying the dusty corners of my fevered brain, haunting my dreams and every waking moment. There's a specific belly button on my mind, and it has been a central figure in my Wednesday rights; if I live to be a hundred, I will...