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...Vancouver, a man dressed as Mr. Peanut campaigns for mayor. In Hungary, throngs of student protesters are stopped by the police for carrying terracotta bricks on their shoulders. And in Japan, a photographer composes a score to be played to the changing phases of the moon. What would seem to be a random series of unrelated acts of political satire, social commentary and spiritual meditation-and by artists from across the world, no less-are all, astonishingly, put under one roof and under the general rubric of "conceptualism." Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, at the MIT List Visual...
...opposition to the popular notion that conceptualism is dry and hyper-intellectual, the curators are careful to pick pieces which display a range of emotions. Many of the pieces in the show, for instance, are disarmingly comical: like Vincent Trasov's campaign for mayor as Mr. Peanut, or Goran Trbuljak's photograph of a door with the inscription, "From time to time I stuck my finger through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon...
Past Gems: The Honky Tonk Downstairs 'Once a Day' 'When Your House Is Not a Home 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool...
Richard Schickel's review of the film Pay It Forward was waaaaay too cynical [CINEMA, Oct. 23]. We were a better nation when Frank Capra was making those feel-good movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. If Pay It Forward's director Mimi Leder and her cast can even come close to making us feel uplifted and inspire us to go out and practice random acts of kindness, then good for them. Our country could use a little "Capra-corn," even if it's a pale imitation. PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...
...last surviving member of the "Hollywood 10" group of writers, directors and producers blacklisted in the 1940s for refusing to answer questions posed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When asked if he was a communist, Lardner said, "I could answer that question the way you want, Mr. Chairman, but if I did, I'd hate myself in the morning." He served nine months in prison in 1947 and didn't receive credit for any screenplays until 1965. He won an Oscar in 1942 for Woman of the Year...