Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...occasion to announce themselves as Rockwell converts or as closet fans all along. Anytime the higher echelons of the culture industry set out to show how they're in touch with ordinary folks, they risk sounding like George Will when he writes about baseball. But this exhibit is an indicator of a real impulse in the art world lately to find vitality wherever it's to be found, now that the energies that moved modernism have long ago run aground. Perhaps for the first time in history, it's truly possible to ask an essential question: Can you take seriously...
...Rothko's later paintings, half-jokingly described as "beach blankets", by Professor James Cuno, Director of the Harvard Art Museums, exhibit the potential for spiritual connotations. Indeed, there are as many possible interpretations of Rothko's artwork as there are opinions on the validity of modern art. But none is so evocative as the initial apprehension expressed by the Corporation about the Rothko commission. The walls of Harvard buildings, up to this point, had only been occupied by portrait after safe portrait of this or that Harvard luminary. At that time, the University was more a champion of contemporary architecture...
...lost a major marketing chance when they refused to let Pixar use their infamously-proportioned doll in the first film). Also in the fray are Wayne Knight's villainous Al McWhiggen, a proprieter of a nearby toy store who dreams of selling Woody to a Japanese museum (why Japanese? Exhibit A of Pixar subversiveness); Jesse and Stinky Pete, the missing figures in "Woody's Roundup"; and, of course, Zurg, the Darth Vader of the cartoon world. It's mass chaos most of the time, but that's the fun of the Toy Story universe. Blink...
...encouraging to see red ribbons around campus on Wednesday, and the events held yesterday and today--an art exhibit and a number of discussions--increase the visibility of AIDS and HIV prevention on campus. Yet we cannot pin our efforts to one day, our thoughts on AIDS to one evening. UHS has confidential as well as anonymous HIV testing, and numerous groups all over campus have condoms available. AIDS prevention must be on our minds throughout the year...
Partly this was the act of a masterly politician. Jiang's amiability reflects a man working hard to avoid offending anyone. It's a kind of sensitivity few Emperors would exhibit, but it is probably tied to the fact that Jiang isn't ruling 15th century China. He's ruling a 21st century nation in which the role of Communist Party leadership is being questioned. Explains Jonathan Pollack, the Rand Corp.'s chief China expert: "Jiang is something of a paradoxical figure... The leadership is very anxious. They have a collective self-esteem problem." Jiang's response...