Word: objectional
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...into the Cambridge neighborhood. We don’t drive families out. We don’t disturb them with our music. We don’t crowd their streets with our cars. But we maintain a firm indifference to these communities, and I am sure that the Cantabrigians object to our presence as strenuously as my father did to the students in my town. Our consciousness is generally contained within Harvard, which makes sense, but we may not realize that after spending four years living in this city, we will have had very little contact with the community outside...
...gallery, it is easy to forget about it as you are walking out. But his “Green Lantern,” made out of fluorescent lights and cintra, a material that has a woody quality, is possibly the most interesting piece in the show. This cylindrical object runs from floor to ceiling and has both texture and body. It makes its presence known throughout the show...
...argument that is appealing to many—even to those who object to manufacturing embryos strictly for research purposes—is that surplus embryos, which will either die or remain frozen indefinitely, could serve humanity better if used to cure disease. Harvesting organs from a death row inmate is an analogous case. If this person, also permanently outside of society, can serve humanity better by offering future medical benefits, what stands in our way of advancing such a policy? Furthermore, does this person not owe such a debt to society for his crime? If our moral sensibilities rebel...
...Dunham, Sue Williams, Laura Owens and James Rosenquist, the photographs of Aaron Siskin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Adam Fuss, to demonstrate this point. In each piece of the show the influence of daily life and the outside world is visible, sometimes by means of a decontextualized reference to an everyday object and other times through shapes with figurative overtones...
...career, but rather than come off as didactic, these works serve to demystify art by initiating viewers into their particular mode of experience. More tangible examples of such interactivity include the “Painting to Let the Evening Light Go Through” (1966), which makes nature the object of wondrous contemplation, and the famous “Painting to Hammer a Nail” (1966), a white plaster-board which is only completed once the viewer has pounded in nails using an attached hammer. Ono is said to have fallen in love with Lennon when...