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...current show "Dress Codes" assembles a sumptuous variety of artists and ideas to provide a provocative forum on the constructions of gender and the implications of cross-dressing and transvestitism. In conjunction with the exhibition, the ICA is also sponsoring panel discussions. a series of performance places and a series of films and videos. As if this weren't enough, even the gift shop has been complete cross-dressed into a chic boutique which allows and encourages any brave soul with sufficient curiosity to don the garb of the opposite gender...
...ICA's talent at linking together the related strands which run through the ongoing dialogues between art, politics, and theory is especially striking when contrasted to the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which runs simultaneously with "Dress Codes" The Whitney Biennial showcases the most important art of the last two years. The 1993 Biennial asks many of the same questions as "Dress Codes" and points to many of the same issues, but the interconnectedness of these questions and issues gets lost in the many divergent strands of contemporary critical...
...Dress Codes" at the ICA, on the other hand, succeeds because it achieves a polyphony of voices centered on a recurrent theme. The organizers of the Biennial have attempted a similar approach, though ultimately, as a whole, they have created a cacophony of the latest theory and criticism. The Biennial is best taken in pieces and left as such...
Street Show. Interdisciplinary performance presented as part of Ways To See: New Art Forms in Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston. Thursday, Oct. 1, 8 p.m. $4 for ICA members and students; $5 for general admission. Call 266-5152 for more information...
...tabloids quickly dubbed her "Moan-ica" and demanded, "Stop that grunt!" One writer, claiming to have monitored her with a "gruntometer," said the noises coming out of the 18-year-old registered 93 decibels, about what a diesel train would produce. The grunts emitted by Gabriela Sabatini and Jennifer Capriati were deemed dulcet whimpers compared with Monica's. Countered Seles: "I don't think I'm going to win a match because I'm grunting...