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With its reliance on household objects such as clocks, shot glasses, ashtrays and lamps, “When We Liked Ike” is not a traditional exhibit of high art. Instead, the exhibit provides a light, amusing and thought-provoking documentation of a period of American history...
...fact, I was simply attending the opening of “When We Liked Ike: Looking for Postwar America,” a photography exhibit running through April 29 at the Carpenter Center. The exhibit uses household objects, quotations and photography to give insight into the 1950s, a period that conjures up an ambivalent mixture of nostalgia, disgust and curiosity in the modern viewer. The photographs, which are organized by theme, address topics such as childhood, the teenage years, marriage, suburbia, economic expansion, racist stereotyping and politics...
...build a new residential house on that land. I propose the name “Rubalcava House,” but I’m willing to negotiate. The point is, there are too many students at Harvard. Maybe our admissions standards are getting too lax (I would be Exhibit A in that court case), or maybe our admissions officers and House masters have an optimistic view of what constitutes “living space.” Come by my room, Larry—it’s Eliot K-31. I’ll show you the partition...
Feel cramped in your SUV? Relief is at hand in the eight-ton, 9-ft.-tall MaxiMog Global Expedition Vehicle, designed by Bran Ferren, and now featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog...
...York City and "010101: Art in Technological Times" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are Zeitgeist shows, attempts to collect a few specimens of this emerging practice and let them vibrate in proximity to one another. There is not much effort in either exhibit to draw broad conclusions, no gathering of everybody into schools or "isms." The spirit behind both is to let a thousand digits bloom...