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...entering Adams ArtSpace’s “Beautiful Rebellion” exhibit, it’s easy to overlook the artistic value of the first piece—a protruding wall papered with skeletal structures of the pelvis that almost seems a part of the House’s typically alternative scenery. But a closer inspection of the wallpaper work reveals a concern with concealed desire and external influences on identity...
...patterned wall manages to do, the entire exhibit questions the very nature of queer art. Han Yu ’06, the exhibit’s curator, explains that she wasn’t merely attempting to display works by gay and lesbian artists. Even “straight up gay and lesbian depictions” were not on her radar; after all, she points out, with Abercrombie models photographed in homoerotic contexts and lipsticked models posing lesbian, the public has been flooded with such images. Yu wanted instead to gather works that could be read with a queer message...
...exhibit confronts queer theory from myriad artistic perspectives. In one work, images of 1950s magazine models are intermixed with depictions of lesbian love under the Clairol logo “Does She, or Doesn’t She?” Another image presents an alternative depiction of Eve, showing the biblical figure as a man holding two apples up as breasts. Other works are confrontational, like a portrait of a naked woman pointing a gun and a “Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” a collection of snapshots...
...technological progress and prosperity at war's end. On Feb. 14, 1946, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the first electronic, digital computer. A year later, on Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. There were cultural and social developments too. An exhibit of Jackson Pollock's first drip paintings opened on Jan. 5, 1948. Early signs of a civil rights awakening came as Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier on April...
...interest in all things paint by number resurfaced a few years ago, and the fad seems to be gaining steam. Vintage finished pictures are now being avidly collected, and new sets are being made. The Smithsonian Institution was host to an exhibit called "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s," which led to a book, Paint by Number, by William L. Bird Jr. Designer Todd Oldham, who has been collecting the canvases for 20 years, recently taught the Today-show audience how to make Valentine's Day presents with paint-by-number kits. Sean Cisewski, inventory-control manager...