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...audience by the contents. Ironically, the Time Boxes project reinforces that modernist art historical notion of the artist as seer, able to represent the truth behind experience. We have faith that these creators can distill the very essence of their age; we expect the quiddity of the object to be revealed. Yet these capsules, because of their quarter-century embalming, take authorship away from the artists. Works of art necessarily undergo change when they are parted from their originators-the time capsule is an extreme case of such a transformation. Time, as a signifier, has taken on greater meaning than...
...work of art in the surround of time. When the project was inaugurated in 1974, its departure from a concurrent mode of conceptual art, the earthworks movement, could not have been more pronounced. Both forms of conceptual work take on the way changing conditions act upon the art object. But whereas earthworks make a cult of entropy and the dissipation of the art object through time, Antonakos's time capsules are instead about the accumulation of the art object's presence...
...through their various relationships, that friendship is both funny and genuinely warm. The casual acceptance of smoking, alcohol use and sex (aside: could Renee Zellweger, recently cast as Bridget, duplicate this very British aspect of Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less high-strung than Ally McBeal, the inevitable object of comparison. And some genuinely hilarious moments pepper the novel: going to Mark Darcy's house and finding a "lithe oriental boy, stark naked, smiling weirdly, and holding out two wooden balls on a string and a baby rabbit...
...artist-in-residence Lee Mingwei attempts to bridge the gap between art and the public in an innovative, interactive exhibition. Inspired by the spirit of hospitality and intellectual exchange that characterized Gardner's turn-of-the-century salon lifestyle, "The Living Room" rejects the notion of the traditional art object in favor of a participatory process in which the visitor's own aesthetic experience constitutes the finished product. Rather than look at anything in particular, Lee encourages "viewers" to discuss their aesthetic ideas in a warm and friendly environment, helping to make artistic discourse part of their everyday lives...
...Talerico advises FM, "If you like what we're playing, feel free to throw in a couple bucks, and if not, keep it to yourself--it makes a bad day even more miserable." Wright echoes the sentiment: "If you see a street musician, not that money is the main object, when you throw in a quarter, that's something we don't take for granted. Since trains come every six or seven minutes, if you miss one train, it probably won't spoil your plans. So miss a train and really listen to a musician playing...