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With all the build-up surrounding the exhibit, it was disappointing to exit the lecture hall and find that it consisted solely of huge blown-up photographs of textiles, nature scenes, sketches and models behind barbed wire wearing Rei's work. The degree of success with which the attempt to...
The highlight of the exhibition was leaving the corridor to join the Rei-loving (or at least quietly respectful) revelers sipping champagne and snacking on brie. The self-proclaimed Comme des Garons fan with the sparkly eye-shadow was looking vaguely disgruntled. There was nary a kumquat in sight.
A gathering crowd is no indication of artistic achievement. The critical consensus at the 2000 Biennial, though, has closely mirrored popular opinion. This was the year of the video: Douglas Aitken's installation "Electric Earth," which chronicles the nocturnal wanderings of a young black man through the streets of Los...
The broad outlines of Viking culture and achievement have been known to experts for decades, but a spate of new scholarship, based largely on archaeological excavations in Europe, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, has begun to fill in the elusive details. And now the rest of us have a chance to...
Most important, though, they made the finest ships of the age. Thanks to several Viking boats disinterred from burial mounds in Norway, archaeologists know beyond a doubt that the wooden craft were "unbelievable--the best in Europe by far," according to William Fitzhugh, director of the National Museum's Arctic...