Word: normalizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bent with the Eyes" (1970) is just one of the many pieces in the ICA's thoughtfully installed show which explicitly explore the viewer's relationship to the work of art by confounding normal perception. One of Brazil's most important contemporary artists, Meireles is often associated with Conceptual Art, which engages the viewer with an idea rather than an actual art object. Meireles, like the most famous Conceptual artists, including Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, gained critical acclaim in the 1970s. Through the medium of language, Kosuth and Weiner examine such issues as the commodification of the art object...
...stuck in an uncomfortable mirror? But then at the bottom of the frame we notice a key to the piece, its title embossed in backwards letters, like the "mirror writing" in Da Vinci's notebook. "Blind Mirror" enables a blind subject to experience the alterity and reversal of a normal glass mirror. The body is "seen" outside itself and reversed, not from left to right, but from positive form to impression...
...next time high school seniors apply for admission to Harvard, they may well find a third box next to the traditional options of male and female. Instead of being asked to define themselves within the normal binary, the high school seniors will be able to choose to define themselves as a bit of both. Of course, at that point, the issue may be moot: the students may choose none of the three, pushing aside the crimson application in favor of the simple male/female boxes in the blue and white application delivered from New Haven. Either way, I'd love...
What you wrote about was not "normal" Marine hazing. It was the special pinning ceremony engaged in by Marine Force Recon, one of America's toughest and most elite warrior units. These men are all volunteers and eagerly look forward to the day when they win their gold parachutist's wings. I doubt that many look forward to the "ceremony" that accompanies the wings, but all look back with pride on enduring it. The ritual is not unlike the ceremony that American Indians went through when they entered manhood. GARRETT C. DAILEY Oakland, California...
...said, "is that this is one step in the direction of suggesting that nuclear transfer can be done in human beings," He insisted that the center has no interest in cloning a person. The twins, born in August to surrogate mothers through in vitro fertilization, can expect to live normal monkey lives of 15 to 20 years, researchers said. But huddled in the corner of their cage, hugging each other, they looked a lot like two frightened children. They're not the only ones who are worried...