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...Twice Born: Beauty does carry a larger message, an interest in the quality of beauty and its identification. The aesthetic concern, however, hardly seems of a piece with other theoretical frameworks. Twice Born: Beauty tries for a ground-zero approach to art appreciation, asking for intuitive criteria available to the sensitive viewer. The project supports no suggestion of direct artistic inheritance. The normative criteria of Western, Eastern and other traditions are collapsed into formal abstract principles: "unity, variation in unity, complexity, intensity, brightness or clarity, harmony or coherence, and resolution." There is a pressure to seek universals...
Shelly Bancroft, who curated the show, says that she wanted "to do a show that's not ironic about beauty...to establish some criteria that would be objective and also allow subjectivity to come into play." Perhaps the universal character is to be found in the variable connections most of the pieces make with naturalism. Views out of windows onto snow-laden trees, seagulls in blue skies and golden-brown seascapes offer images that arrest the eye, full of kinesthetic suggestion and opportunity for sensation...
...gets worse. Another less-known but far more insidious injustice infects the program. Hidden on the internship application is a box applicants check if they desire to be evaluated "only under equal opportunity criteria." This sly sentence attempts to obscure the fact that a select number of internships are doled out under a different criteria; that sons and daughters of donors and political insiders are given an institutionally sanctioned upper hand over their hard working peers. Who needs grades, skills and letters of recommendation when you have connections...
...point, I think, is that experience is critical," he says. "Some undergraduates have had very good work experience. They may not have years, but they have the right kind, which is the important criteria...
...List uses various criteria--such as population size, rate of decline and geographic distribution--to determine which species are most at risk. The overall picture is no less bleak than the one described by the previous list, issued four years ago, and the outlook for certain groups is especially grim. The number of critically endangered primates has risen 50%, largely as a result of habitat loss and the demand for "bush meat." The number of critically endangered freshwater turtles, prized in Southeast Asia for food and medicines, has more than doubled. Among birds, the number of threatened albatrosses jumped from...