Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Pop and side by side with it came impersonality--Minimalism, conceptual art and a vanguardist belief in the death of painting. But the artist who did most to break the mold of late-Modernist formalism in the '70s was a former Abstract Expressionist, Philip Guston (1913-80). His work over that decade redefined the terms of painting for a whole generation of young Americans, opening up the possibilities of the painted figure once more. In their time, Guston's paintings seemed like a kind of treason to the high-minded refusals of late Modernism, but therein lay their newness...
...contrast to these technology-obsessed works, Gabriel Orozco contributes a table cluttered with quiet, ephemeral models. His attention to materials and tiny scale transforms dried oranges, spotted seed pods, a papier mache mold of a sock, and a tower of Yardley soap boxes into intimate marvels. These laconic sculptures demand (and deserve) our thought and time, as do Orozco's elegant photographs which reveal his sensitivity to natural mysteries and visual puns, like a cluster of sleeping sheep in Common Dream, or a languid hose seeping water on the floor in Hose (Manguera Dormida). His small, subtle observations play beautifully...
Many students who seek advice at OCS are hesitant to break the mold and stray away from high-paying, and often high-status careers in business, medicine...
...Mine, an after-school program for neglected children. Every day the retired school administrative aide and mom of five acts on her philosophy that the 100 participating kids need tough mothering--along with lessons and meals. Says Hawkins: "If you get them at a young age, you can help mold them...
...America needs baseball. In an age when attention deficit disorder reigns supreme and the images on our television screens race by our brains in fractions of a second, baseball teaches patience. The fielders' changing positions, the batter's fixed stare and the catcher's mysterious signs all mold attention to detail. Baseball can be the antidote to our frenetic and fast-paced culture. If baseball will build us a new home, we will most surely come...