Word: exhibiter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...confirms much of Kurtz's account, but stresses that the situation was far from clear-cut when agents arrived on the scene. "He had a working microbiology lab in his home. He did not have an art exhibit in his home. We also had a dead body," says Maureen Dempsey, spokesperson for the Buffalo field office of the FBI. "We didn't know what was in there. That's why we had to cordon off the house." The bacteria that Kurtz had in his house had been used in the past to simulate dangerous bacteria for research purposes - which...
...unusually constructive response to a federal investigation, Kurtz and a group of artists have created "Seized," a small but mesmerizing exhibit made out of the refuse, scraps and assorted detritus that FBI agents left inside and outside of his house. "I started thinking," says Kurtz, remembering the day he returned to his house after the raid, "they went through my trash, so maybe I'll go through theirs...
...exhibit, at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo through July 18, begins with a case stuffed with yards of yellow police tape and centers on a tower of about 20 empty pizza boxes. The pizza tower is surrounded by hundreds of empty Gatorade and water bottles and festooned with a disposable haz-mat suit, rubber gloves and unused collection jars. On the wall are a framed half-smoked cigar and a scribbled to-do list ("Sign warrant...
Still, I can be persuaded. One day at the Smithsonian, I saw a young couple standing in front of an exhibit. With glasses tripping off his nose and tube socks nipping at his knees, the guy was a geek, explaining the intricacies of an esoteric display. The girl on his arm, however, was a beaut, listening attentively to everything he said. For this geek, it was enough to make me want a yearly pass. –Brian J. Bolduc ‘10, a Crimson editorial editor, is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House...
...Many Berliner's had expressed similar concerns after Madame Tussauds had announced plans to feature Hitler in its waxwork collection. The museum tried to mollify critics by banning visitors from taking pictures of the exhibit, and by depicting Hitler as the broken, deranged figure in his final days as portrayed by German actor Bruno Ganz in the 2004 movie Downfall. Still, many voices, such as Johannes Tuchel, head of the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin, rejected the presence of a Hitler waxwork, and attacked Madame Tussauds' decision to restore it on show "as soon as possible", saying the museum...