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Above them five tied-together bedsheets dangled from the balcony railing. Behind, a big wooden table had been pounded into an obtuse angle with sneaker marks at the vertex. John Quincy Adams watched without judgment from his invisible, alarmed cage...
...commission meeting, board members criticized Harvard's original plan for the building's size as well as its design, echoing vehement critiques of the proposal by Knafel's neighbors. The meeting--which came after two months of hearings on the proposal--was meant to precede the commission's final judgment...
...this month at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, "1900: Art at the Crossroads," is sure to be a hit with the public. It was a smash in London. Organized by art historian Robert Rosenblum and consisting of 240 paintings and sculptures, it takes an ecumenical and almost judgment-free view of its task, which is to show what kinds of art were being made at the last turn of the century, when the idea of modernism in culture was just forming, and when some of the most admired artists bore names you'd hardly recognize today--not Cezanne...
Some questions presented by the chairs: Is one supposed to sit in them? If so, does one sit to be close to the dead, to be in their place and assume their perspective? Does one sit in judgment, vigilance, serenity, longing? Does one sit in protest, as at a sit-in, against acts of terrorism and anarchy? Does one sit with America? And if one does not sit--and no one here, not a single visitor to the Oklahoma City National Memorial, makes a move to do so--then is it the chairs that do the sitting? Is theirs...
Would it work? Today's military is technologically sophisticated, and brute young muscles are less required than they once were. In peacekeeping situations around the world, mature judgment counts for more than a 20-year-old's reflexes...