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...title "Against Nature," this is very much an exhibition about Japanese artists' continuing tug-of-war with the forces of modernism. Its organizers obviously believe that, in responding to the world around them, today's Japanese artmakers are answering to a personal, not a prescribed, vision of how to depict it. Perhaps, in a modern world, this approach is only natural...
...glorified violence. Television cartoons feature dehumanized, machinelike characters, such as the Transformers and Gobots, engaged in destructive acts. But viewers see no consequences. Victims never bleed and never suffer. Youngsters mimic the behavior with toys based on the shows. Later they graduate to TV programs and movies that depict people killing or degrading other people. By the age of 16, the typical child has witnessed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence, including 33,000 murders. Inevitably, contend many experts, some youngsters will imitate the brutality in real life. In a 22-year study, researchers tracked the development...
...models show the buildings and lay-out of the University at various dates since its founding 353 years ago. They depict how Harvard changed from a small college in a pastoral setting to a mammoth institution amid a bustling city...
...year-old black student and a middle-class American, I sometimes experience the type of racial discrimination you depict. Unfortunately, I more often encounter prejudice among members of my own race. I am seen as trying to be white if I excel or show ambition. I am even criticized because of the way I speak. We are defeating ourselves when we condemn one another for achievement. Healthy competition among blacks may be just the medicine our ailing race needs...
...same ones that inspired a thousand Renaissance masterpieces: the Nativity, Madonna and Child, and gripping Bible stories. The most frequent subject is Christ's agony on the Cross, a visual testament to the Africans' own suffering. But Zairian Catholic sculptor Ndombasi Wuma, like many Protestants, refuses to depict the Crucifixion. Says he: "I believe in the risen Christ. Why should Christ be anguished...