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...Each Prototype is a Nike Air Jordan shoe--or shoes--that has been intricately cut, folded, glued and resewn into something that looks like a Northwest Coast native mask. Shoes are bunched into faces or halved lengthwise into beaks. Their tongues are repurposed as ears. Round plastic insets sometimes function as eyes, some with a silhouette of Michael Jordan inside, the last word in ornamental pupils...
...Hanssen Pigott's craft reaches back to the Chinese courts of a millennium ago, her sensibility remains modern. No matter how exquisite, form follows function, and in the course of filling the show, the curator has left many a kitchen cupboard bare. Until recently, a prized bowl owned by Hanssen Pigott's sister was used daily for rhubarb. "The usefulness of her pots is very important to her," explains Smith, "and even the works in the still life groups today could be used if people wished to do so; but people tend not to want to use a cup that...
...time. They will allow President Mahmoud Abbas to maintain contact with Israel, but will not enable him to conduct any substantial negotiations-and many Palestinian observers expect that President Abbas may not stay on the job for more than another few months. In the long run, he can't function as president if his government is pursuing a policy at odds with...
...Alexander Graham Bell. Over glasses of red wine, and later by e-mail, they toast their love of modernity. "The telephone is our rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide out the other end, mere voice, mere function. Wires, currents, satellites, electrical systems: these are the hardware we extend ourselves into, spaced out, underground, alive in the trembling skeins that arch across nations...
...Because of the yearbook’s practical function, Editor-in-Chief Kory A. Byrns ’06 says that its artistic merits are often overlooked...