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Both artists claim their recent tour of Asia as inspiration for the pieces on display and their artists' statements certainly reflect a shared intent: he is experimenting "in an attempt to see if everything can inhabit the same visual space," she calls her sculptures "collages," each one "a conglomerate of many passing ideas." Burckhardt works with enamel on wood-his paintings, all roughly the size of a sheet of notebook paper, are slick, colorful meditations somewhere between Dr. Seuss and Kandinsky. He often allows shapes in the underpainting to flicker through the top layer of images, struggling for more dimensions...
...main room of the show, in a gallery with a ceiling installation by Sol LeWitt, holds Neel's large portraits of the late '60s and '70s. These big, light paintings are all a pleasure, each one as grippingly individual as the people who inhabit them. Among the sitters Neel painted during the later years of her life were recognized figures on the art scene, including Andy Warhol. The appearance of large numbers of art-world types reflects the growing recognition Neel received in the '60s, out of which came a 1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney...
...supporters of a student center rightly remind us of the need for institutions to bring Harvard students together. But by persisting in an unrealistic desire for a new building, we neglect the many ways that we can improve the environment we already inhabit to support student groups and strengthen our community...
...school liberals learned when the Democrats converged in Los Angeles, this is not a good year to inhabit the corners of American politics. Furious about the death penalty? Sorry, both candidates support capital punishment. Angry about abortion? Too bad - the most the ostensibly pro-life Bush will pledge is to "reduce the number of abortions in America." Up in arms over dwindling public assistance? Tough luck; neither party wants to be chained with the responsibility of swelling welfare rolls...
...right angles, very few straight lines--is always exquisitely legible without sacrificing high style, somehow managing to synthesize classical elements with the churning pop culture. "Typefaces have a viral quality," says Hoefler. "It's always amazing to see where they wind up and how they transform the things they inhabit." Adds Frere-Jones: "When you're designing a typeface, you're not really making a product. You're building a machine that will go and make other products...