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...Technological advances have made editing easier and large-scale gallery projection possible, and artists have stepped forward with work of indisputable power. In fact, film and video art feature in every submission short-listed for this year's Turner Prize, the British art world's most prestigious award. Jeremy Deller was presented the prize on Dec. 6 for his film Memory Bucket, a profile of Dubya's Texas (the works are on exhibit at Tate Britain in London until Dec. 23). And a show at Tate Modern on London's South Bank, "Time Zones: Recent Film and Video" (through...
...appreciation for the perspectives of students and colleagues from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Separately, teachers at Pioneer High organized a faculty reading club to discuss books about race in hopes of making their colleagues more comfortable with the subject. "When we started, people avoided me in the hallways," says Amy Deller, a white science teacher who recruited members and leads the group. "But now colleagues grab me to have conversations...
Enter England's Alfred Deller, who, starting in the mid-1940s, singlehandedly revived countertenor singing. Deller inspired Benjamin Britten to write the first countertenor role in a 20th century opera, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other singers began emulating Deller, and as the revival of interest in baroque opera picked up steam in the '70s, countertenors became popular once more...
...robust quality of his singing is helping lay to rest a silly but persistent cliche: that real men don't sing alto. For years countertenors were kidded about the presumed implications of their sky-high voices. (Deller is said to have been confronted backstage once by a German fan who asked, "You are eunuch, yes?" to which the singer allegedly replied, "I think perhaps you mean unique, madam.") And in the '50s and '60s, when rumors of homosexuality could still kill a career, many went out of their way to stress their manliness. But times have changed, and Daniels makes...
...consider the evidence presented by Walter C. McCrone, Ph.D., a member of the 1978 Shroud of Turin Research Project. In numerous articles and a recent book, McCrone has shown that there is no blood on the shroud. The image on the linen was created with artist's pigments. CRAIG DELLER Geneva...