Word: notionalism
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...notion of installing a collection in a thematic, multimedia way has been percolating at least since New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) flirted briefly with the approach, beginning in 1999 with the show "ModernStarts." As a way to summarize the nonlinear development of 20th century art, MOMA divided its extensive collection into three categories: People, Places and Things. Critics called the series handsome and provocative, as well as simplistic and awful. It was also the final show in the old MOMA building and a laboratory for installations in the new one, an elegant $425 million structure that...
...branch of government show when it feels another is not showing enough? The Rehnquist Court holds the record for tossing out congressional statutes, often on the ground that Congress is muscling in on state turf. The argument rests on how one reads the Constitution's Commerce Clause, an omnibus notion that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce but has frequently been used as an all-purpose regulatory vehicle. The high court has overturned a federal law that barred possession of a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a school and parts of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, deciding these...
...lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...students were waiting for admission; and I had to cram into one of the uncomfortable seats upstairs. Sen, in his heavy academic robes, began brilliantly, with a joke about how he had just been pestered by a dim-witted immigration official at Heathrow Airport who couldn't grasp the notion that an Indian like Sen could be the Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University. From then on, things went downhill. As Sen began unraveling his theories of personal identity, I realized that I disagreed with everything he said. Within a few minutes, I wanted to leave. Only the suspicion...
Sinéad O'Connor Rebel Roots: Dublin, Ireland Reggae Sound: Her next album, Throw Down Your Arms, features Jamaican musicians and Marley songs. Island Cred: She embraces the Rastafarian faith--and the notion of hair as a statement...