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Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch...
...ever, there was a lot of monkey-excitement in Mark Hauser’s Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory this week. First, “Miles” in cage three distracted researchers by loudly fellating himself for several hours. The next day saw the world’s first reported case of interspecies cockblock, when Felix P. Johnson ‘03 entered the lab at an inopportune time and scared off some monkeys about to get it on primate-style. The two workers already in the lab, one of whom had a video camera, were very disappointed...
...garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic way. If anything they look like African animist masks that convey the idea of an animal more than its literal shape. Jon seems to be a cross between a dog and monkey...
...stunned at having been exposed to brutal, Boston-style, 90-mile-per-hour, “but-it-was-75-degrees-yesterday” winds. No, these suckers are staying locked away for now, destined to spend this fall-winter season behind Gap’s latest chunky-monkey, high-neck sweater...
...uniforms to walk around the site. There was one guy who was actually rapelling off what was left of [the World Trade Center]. There I was, a beautiful sunset in the background, a leg sticking out of the rubble, and a lunatic 100 feet above me climbing like a monkey. It was totally crazy, Akana says. Its great that so many people want to volunteer, but if youre there to gawk and fool around, its totally inappropriate. I kept wanting to tell those people, How would you feel if hundreds of strangers treated your mangled body like a tourist attraction...