Word: linens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bayeux Tapestry, the astonishing embroidered storyboard of the Battle of Hastings, one can see Edward the Confessor of England dying in January 1066 and Harold Godwinson, an earl, enthroned. A woolen comet (Halley's) streams across a linen sky, auguring bad luck. William, who believed the English crown had been promised him, lost no time. Five hundred vessels eventually ferried 7,000 men and their 2,000 mounts. Contrary winds delayed the force on the French side of the English Channel for 15 days--just long enough for Norway to launch its own 300-ship attack on the north...
...Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of Artschwagers work and the Guggenheim did the same for Bleckner. This exhibition at Harvard features a small selection of the recent work of each artist. Artschwagers six sculptures, all untitled, were constructed in 1995-1996. Bleckners works in oil on linen, also all untitled, were painted this year. Neither artist provides clues for the viewer as to how to interpret their enigmatic work...
...Artschwager and Bleckners works together makes it incredibly difficult to differentiate between the organic and the artificial. Artschwager takes a living material, wood, and presents it as lifeless; his sculptures are rigorously symmetrical, quadrangular and severe. Bleckner, on the other hand, makes his canvases feel biological, endowing oil and linen with all of the texture, mutability and fluid motion of life...
...ASSU also oversees Stanford Student Enterprises, which provides on-campus advertising, linen cleaning and other services--in a role similar to Harvard Student Agencies (HSA). The ASSU relies on the enterprises for a large chunk of its funds...
Inspired by winds that buffet her home in Reseda, Calif., each November, Clemmons recalled that even stronger winds blow in Egypt from February through June. Then she remembered that the Egyptians mass-produced linen for sailcloth, and that some of their hieroglyphs suggest that the pyramids were raised by "invisible gods in the sky." Clemmons concluded that the ancient Egyptians could have used a system of large kites to lift the pyramid stones into place...