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What does your bottom mean to you? What is the significance of your rear end? No, this is not Porn 101, but rather one of the many topics that the Nigerian painter and photographer Ike Udé explores in his exhibit “Beyond Decorum,” currently on display in the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center...
...most provocative works of art are those which confront taboos of the period in which they were created, art through which an artist seeks to challenge his society’s ideals or the parameters of its concepts of propriety. And although Udé’s exhibit certainly does qualify as questionable—based on its seemingly gratuitously pornographic content and its direct confrontations with modern society’s notion of beauty and normality—his pieces are intellectually provocative and pose worthy questions...
Looking left some mornings, I would focus on the tops of the man-made wonders. On these mornings the buildings reminded me of an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. The exhibit displayed a model of New York City after the melting of the polar ice caps, predicted to occur in 10,000 years...
...boats make their way across an expansive ocean spotted only by the tops of the city's tallest structures: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and the monstrous heads of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Staring at these monstrous heads, I was reassured by the exhibit's promise that even when New York is gone, these buildings will remain tall—proof of the power and history of a fallen city...
Powell: It's usually the Exhibit A of Powell getting his knickers pulled. It was a clear, straightforward case where we were reviewing our North Korea policy. And in response to a question at a press conference, I gave an answer which was a little ahead of where the President...