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...Korie's treatment, Milk becomes a combination of Elie Wiesel, Oscar Wilde and Moses. He likens America's treatment of gays to the Holocaust and, in an embarrassing coda, leads his rambunctious flock to the gates of sexual and political freedom without quite being able to enter himself. The truth is somewhat different: Milk was an engaging if slightly goofy pol whose defining moment to most San Franciscans was his televised illustration of how to obey the pooper-scooper law. While the Milk legend may not be justified, Korie does use it to create a narrative that pulls the listener...
...white flatness of the space is strategic, according to the documentary video prepared by ICA video Curator/Director Branka Bogdanovich. (Incidentally, the video space is also plagued by a slight sewer smell--less appropriately than in the cockroach exhibit.) The exhibition space is supposed to represent the sterilization of the Holocaust--the way in which it is rendered historically innocuous. Hopefully, the viewer will stick around long enough to figure that...
...mother's misfortune took up the space of dreams"-- Marguerite Duras II, (1195). More humorous is Ellen Rothenberg's pile of pink erasers, each printed with the word "GUILT," in Gothic lettering. Art Spiegelman, famous as the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus, a cartoon retelling of the Holocaust, contributes sketches and studies...
Many of the paintings and exhibits are illuminating, when duly studied and understood, but in the face of the exhibition's stated "fear that the Holocaust may be forgotten," they are not enough. Few will bother to spend two hours reading, talking notes and collecting information to create a lasting memory. Those who do will leave feeling frustrated, somehow dissatisfied with intellectual conclusions. Just because this art is about distance doesn't mean we should be distanced from...
...come closer to an emotional understanding of the Holocaust in the televised images of the survivors of Auschwitz gathered fifty years later, or even in the yearly Harvard tradition of reading aloud from Widener steps an unending list of the names of the victims. Visit the exhibition for a perceptive look at second-hand memory, but don't expect to create your own memories in the process...