Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event, sponsored by The Crimson and free to all students, provided the bands with a chance to play music ranging in style from ska to heavy metal. Each band played a 20-minute...
...archaeologists believe they have uncovered the more than 4,000-year-old, long-lost city of Urkesh. Buried beneath a town in northeastern Syria, Urkesh was reputed to have been a thriving religious center for the ancient Hurrians, a civilization cited briefly in the Bible. Unearthed were clay tablets, metal tools, drawings and seals of the Queen...
...with larger social concerns. The brilliant "Fish" (1950), composed of welded steel in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, grippingly conveys the horrors of war in the nuclear age. Smith's composition, covered entirely with a cadmium red paint that is both mundane and menacing, forcefully aggregates scraps of metal and designed objects into a figure that evokes both the atom and our fear of its power. A core of barbs and chain links lies at the center of the work, surrounded by two askew rectangles of jagged metal forms. Recalling Escher's surreal staircase designs, Smith's work depicts...
...Queen" (1957) and the Sentinel series, both of which augment the sheer artistic power of Giacomettian sculpture with a deep concern for the role of form and color. Despite its poorly lit display area, the genius of the bronze Detroit Queen emanates from its patinate form. Composed of sheet metal, gears, and bowls, the rigid figure in the work stands precariously balanced on the flowing forms of its "throne...
...real promise of American aspirations in the 1950s. We know not whether the stars are tumbling downwards or floating upwards; their fanciful arrangement reassures, yet their sharp edges make this fantasy menacing. In "Doorway," Smith shows American aspirations, warts and all--and the artfully clumsy, jerrybuilt support of its metal stars insistently reminds us of their real basis...