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...small number of self-portraits scattered throughout the exhibit, viewers can glimpse Lynes’ involvement in the photographic process. In some, he appears camera in hand. In another, he stands posed in a harlequin costume...
When Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts asked to borrow fashion photographs from the Harvard Theatre Collection for an exhibit last year, Harvard curator F.W. Wilson says he was reminded of the long-forgotten collection of Lynes’ work...
...highlighted his intention to empower ordinary citizens; accordingly, the State House was decorated for the day with thousands of photographs of Bay State residents in an exhibit called “Faces of Our Future...
...photo is excruciating. In Feng Feng's Shin Brace, an exhibit at the First Guangzhou Triennial, a photograph of a human leg?scaled up to fill an entire wall?is shown wrapped in a wicked metal apparatus that seems part medical, part torture device. Steel barbs pierce traumatized skin in a scarring kiss. I look at the photo until I can't look anymore, which isn't long. Opposite Shin Brace is Feng Mengbo's Ah Q , an installation featuring two computers running the ultraviolent video game Quake III on a pair of wide screens. A young Chinese...
...sheer chutzpah, nothing can top the final exhibit, Zhang Hongtu's Studs. A big, red door, slyly reminiscent of the crimson gates that once kept the Forbidden City forbidden and now protect the Party leadership compound. But in Zhang's work, the door's elaborate iron studs have become phallic pipes frozen in, as the artist delicately puts it, "states of inadequate erection." So much for vigorous leadership. But if the First Guangzhou Triennial is any indication, China's experimental art scene is more virile than ever...