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"We will be sorry to see the U.S. embassy leave as the current security arrangements we negotiated are working well," said Robert Davis, deputy leader of the Westminster City Council. "But we understand their desire to be in a more secure compound."
Davis’s “Appleknockers” sits in the middle of a couch arrangement ready for contemplation. “I found a piece of plywood with enormously huge knots, and I thought they were really funny,” she says. “I...
Davis’s piece of plywood is bordered by mahogany and covered with red glass to elevate the value of the imagery. Davis says that this frame is meant to comment on conformity within society. “Consumer culture has people so framed because the particular thing we...
While Halpern’s art was influenced by contemporary concerns from the outset and Davis says that her sculpture only reflected modern day issues, Biggers found inspiration in the 1976 film “Network,” a movie that portrays the pursuit of power in American television...
Though, as Davis insists, what makes this show so unique is that it was determined by educational choices rather than by a single curator, each piece nonetheless reflects an issue facing our contemporary society–whether conformity, the influence of media, or the danger of our own imagination.