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...creating art playing a game? That is the theme and approach of Megan McNaught's solo exhibition, titled Strategy, at Crosstown Arts: she creates a part of the work and then lets the painting dictate the next move. This is exemplified in her most striking work, a series of paintings in either two or three tones where five-inch by five-inch blocks are arranged in a geometric pattern on the large canvas. You can easily see its strategy-game aspect-the blocks are arrayed rather like the pieces in Tetris. However, the attraction of the texture of the brushstrokes...
...McNaught's other series of work on display features a similarly tightly planned structure. She repeatedly prints out the Arial font capital "I" over a piece of computer paper, minutely skewing some of the resulting lines. Then she combines eight of these patterns and transfers them onto a larger piece of paper using wintergreen oil as a solvent. The effect is unique, and the subtlety she gets out of a single letter is initially surprising, but these pieces pale in comparison to her paintings. Crosstown Arts, which opened only a few months ago, attempts to highlight emerging contemporary artists...
...Strategy, new work by Megan McNaught, is on view at Crosstown Arts, 1 North Sq., Boston, through Dec. 23. For more information, call...
...force and a diversity management group. Among the unlikely recipients of its corporate largesse are a black-heritage festival, the Mi Casa resource center for women and even a romance novel the company commissioned in 1993 in a good-hearted but weird effort to promote literacy. (Perfect, by Judith McNaught, tells the story of a foster child who "overcomes illiteracy to find true love," as the promotional material says.) The firm contends that it was the first U.S. brewer to have rabbis certify its suds as kosher. "Coors Cares," bleats a company slogan...
...should be at the spearhead of campaigns to defend the Net from antisocial perverts rather than burying their heads in the sand of spineless, amoral political correctness. Societies have always tried to legislate against behavior that threatens vulnerable groups of innocent people. Only criminals object to such laws. ALISTAIR MCNAUGHT Winchester, England...