Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fervor started on the T with the gaggle of pre-teen girls singing "I'm Too Sexy." It continued in the Fleet Center concourse, where entire families mingled with 13-year-olds dressed in an amusingly risque fashion. On the floor it was even worse, where a sold out arena reverberated with the ear-piercing screams of little girls bursting to be in the presence of their embodiment of The Perfect...
...Until recently, Wols's photographs were seen as prefiguring his later work. Christine Mehring, who gracefully curates the exhibit, instead presents Wols's photography as an integral part of his oeuvre that must be considered independently. She divides his photographs into four discrete but contingent sections: portraits, abstractions, fashion photographs and still lives. As the works were taken during his ten-year residence in France between 1932 and 1942, they bear a strong stylistic affinity to each other. Yet the works display Wols's movement from germinal Bauhaus sterility and Surrealist tomfoolery to a style ultimately unique both from...
...work for the fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...
Last weekend at Old Dominion the Crimson won a hard-fought 5-2 victory. In a highly uncharacteristic fashion, the Crimson dropped the doubles point to start off the match...
Scope out the celeb fashion winners and uglies at the live simulcast of the 71st Academy Awards, hosted by KISS 108's Matty in the Morning and sponsored by the Friends of the Massachussetts Film Office. The Oscars at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel's Eighth Annual Academy Awards Gala Benefit lets you schmooze with members of the Boston glitterati. Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. $150. Call 973-8804 for invitations...