Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some would hesitate to even call graffiti art--the law treats anything painted on a surface without the owner's permission as vandalism. But other members of the art world see a strange beauty in walls and doors scarred by markers and spray paint. The curators of the Trustman Gallery of Simmons College, near the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, have even had the good sense to devote an exhibtion to tag art: Graffiti is running through the end of the month...
...raises these questions; "You're not asking, is graffiti art. You're asking, what is art?" It's true that this most unconventional (and original) of art forms forces us to reconsider what it is we value in visual art. If we need to argue over whether spray paint on a wall has the same merits as watercolor on a canvas, then we need to argue about art's very definition. And what is the definition? Is everything that is a visual form of expression a piece of art? The Trustman Gallery's video of graffiti sites around Boston...
...gymnastics show to 'Thriller,'" Penelope A. Carter '00 says. "It was just us in black sweatpants, but we got to wear scary face paint and take turns jumping on the balance beam... We all felt very cutting-edge...
...space is small for a department as large as the city's. Carpeting is torn. Walls are tired. Paint is peeling...
...accident that the paint has worn off DOOR CLOSE buttons in elevators throughout the country. At least that's Gleick's observation. We have become a clock-obsessed society, he argues, infected with "hurry sickness." Technological advances such as cell phones, microwaves and the Internet have only aggravated the condition, inundating us with more things to worry about instead of giving us more leisure time. Gleick offers up his pointed analysis with refreshing irreverence...