Word: exhibitioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The best you can hope to pick up at most art openings is some vicious gossip and cheap champagne. But at her Fifth Avenue gallery last week, venerable art dealer MARY BOONE offered a little more. For a show featuring a sculpture made of guns, Boone filled a vase with...
Outraged by one work in the exhibition, Chris Ofili's black madonna festooned with elephant dung, Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor and all-but-declared U.S. Senate candidate, refused to pay the October installment of the city's $7 million subsidy to the museum. The city further claimed that...
We've been here before, so the next act was familiar: museum defenders indignantly cited the First Amendment. Performance artist and freedom-of-expression activist Karen Finley, whose art career now seems secondary to her talk-show shouting, went on CNN to lament censorship. And the Brooklyn Museum of Art...
Including the mayor, though he did have a look at the exhibition's catalog. It can't convey all the nuances Ofili intends with excrement, though Giuliani might be mollified if he knew that the artist affixes clumps of dung to just about everything, including Absolut vodka bottles and images...
First it was the Jets. Wayne Chrebet, a wide receiver, broke his foot while making a cut upfield during an exhibition game. Then Vinny Testaverde, their quarterback, popped his Achilles tendon pushing off to recover a fumble. Last week the Atlanta Falcons star running back, Jamal Anderson, tore a knee...