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...tell a surgeon where to cut for an appendectomy. In 1996 MIT's Council on the Arts gave LoCurto and Outcault a grant so they could make maps of their naked bodies using digital scanning and cartography software. The List Visual Arts Center is home to the resulting exhibit, selfportrait.map, featuring 18 large-scale color prints. Unlike hides on a wall, these skins never fully surrender the fantasy of three dimensions, so that as the form is flattened, it also tends to careen. LoCurto and Outcault are deformed as pure surface and spun out by algorithms into unlikely, mappish dimensions...
...poignancy of Metheny's unique, gentle style reached its height in Beyond the Missouri Sky, his 1997 collaboration with bassist Charlie Haden. After such a tour-de-force, Metheny's latest album, Trio 99-00, is something of a disappointment. Metheny seems compelled on track after track to exhibit the Pagannini side of his guitar talents, going off on elaborate licks and solos. It's impressive, no doubt, but Metheny's heart isn't there. He comes to life not in the elaborate showmanship of a piece like "(Go) Get It" but in the more contemplative tracks like "Travels...
...Days after seeing the exhibit, these people in his pictures float unbidden to the surface of my mind. Hilliard has carefully created the situations in the photo, down to the pictures on the front of the cards and the empty water bottle lying in the grass. Every detail is put there to tell the story of the subject, but the final story is left to the viewer. He must interpret these details. Perhaps it is because Hilliard only works with people he knows very well, or perhaps it is because everything is so carefully staged, or maybe it is because...
...exhibit places a particular emphasis on the relationship between Shahn's paintings and his photographs, as these two components of Shahn's art are placed side by side in the gallery. It is most interesting to see how Shahn interprets his photography through his paintings. In the paintings, many of which resemble the photographs directly and are accordingly placed next to the corresponding photographs in the exhibit, Shahn expresses a unique perception on his photography through his own color, abstraction and perspective...
...ordinary people--they are reflections of an individual's mood, a child's innocence, a worker's despair. Shahn has the gift of capturing moments of vulnerability, when a person's thoughts and feelings are revealed in his or her eyes, body language or movement. Looking around the exhibit, the intensity is overwhelming, because Shahn's works are full of these instances of real emotion and deep revelation...