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...suggestive title. Consult the dictionary and you'll find both a definition and a clue: among other things, a prism is "a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it." Prism also happens to be the title of one of the works in the show-Imants Tillers' 1986 painting, from a private collection in Sydney. Assembled on 165 canvas boards and referencing both Expressionist Georg Baselitz's figure of a German soldier and Timmy Payungka Japangardi's Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming, this postmodern picture puzzle announces the exhibition's intriguing but not wholly convincing contention-that...
...applauded the takeover of the Southwest by Mexico while another mocked the Marines for allowing "dwarves and women" to join. The group was soon called out as fake by liberal bloggers--and is now defunct. It's an indication of how short-lived online pranks can be. But the medium is here to stay, and the tactics are maturing--even if the mentality of the dirty tricksters clearly...
...mail. We're sorry, but we can only accept one photo per reader. Good luck! By submitting your photo, you hereby grant to TIME and Time.com a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to publish, distribute and exhibit the photo you submit, in any manner and in any medium, without payment to you or any third party. You represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to TIME the license granted herein, and that publication of the photo will not violate the rights of any third party...
This time, though, words are his medium...
...power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may well have been written last week in the same medium that incubated it: talk radio. On conservative commentator Laura Ingraham's show, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history explained why he would not resign despite a sex scandal that has produced a hail of questions about his leadership and the failure to stop one of his members from...