Word: everydayness
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...origins of the cable are spurious to begin with—and so is the plaque’s claim that Evans’ appropriation of the cable is a modern statement on Duchamp’s ready-made movement. The idea of the ready-made is to take everyday objects out of their everyday contexts. But in this piece, Evans has already admitted to believing in the extraordinary origins of the cable. Once again—a self-righteous tribute to the not so exciting or insightful...
...Nancy Gibbs contemplated whether it will be possible to bring Americans together after the vote. It is not only possible but also probable. While those in our nation's capital and in the media are totally consumed by politics, most Americans view politics as just one element of their everyday lives. We are too busy to be overcome by the aftermath of elections. We share key values. Ultimately, we all want to be able to live decent lives in peace and security. The presidential election almost seems to have taken on the quality of the World Series or the Super...
...concept behind Aina Arts is its method of operations: Bakshi’s organization works with a group of children for several weeks, observing the ways in which the group could supplement the students’ everyday lives with art. He said, “We looked for the use of arts in religious practices, in daily practices, in special ceremonies and celebrations striving to see art in its broadest conception.” Then the group teaches the children to see the same beauty and art that they have observed. According to Bakshi, “Our goal...
...their work showing the children of India how to find art in the everyday, the participants of Aina Arts derive a greater understanding of the role of public art themselves. “We seek to show students here [at Harvard] the ways in which art-making takes place outside the gallery walls of New York or show-rooms in London, in the lives of millions of people,” commented Bakshi, who is expanding the organization’s frontiers from Mussoorie to an AIDS orphanage in Zimbabwe and eventually locations in Latin America...
...then, just when I wanted to start, he died on me. And so, I dropped it. But the need, the need to set down that period [remained] because everyday landmarks vanished, certain modes of life vanished, certain rhythms of existence vanished, and so I decided I’d weave that period around my own self,” he says. “That’s really how that first biography came about, it was never intended to be my biography...