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...second installation, "The Veiling," is similarly far more tactilly complex than the supposed "message" intended by the work. "The Veiling" consists of a series of gauze shrouds hung in parallel rows from one end of a small dark room to another. Video projectors hung at either end of the rectangular room each project a different image, and as each image is diffused through each successive shroud to the point at which they meet in the center, the images get increasingly indistinguishable. The curator's notes claim this is a statement on "gender". To apply such a clinical, stalely academic categorization...
Which is not to say he hadn't learned from Europe. His paintings of children sometimes reach for a rough kind of classical energy. The frieze-line of kids running parallel to the picture plane in Snap the Whip, 1872, brings to mind the dancing putti on Donatello's Cantoria in Florence. He had a knack for inserting distant echoes of the classical into the forms of common life, and doing it so subtly that you're scarcely aware of them at first. Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast...
...addition to the physical conference on campus, there was a parallel virtual conference taking place on the World Wide Web (http://www.harvnet.harvard.edu) giving attendees and Web surfers the opportunity to read summaries of panel discussions and speeches...
...sort of saw it as a parallel between what I was doing and what he was doing," Chiang said...
Such Kennediana can enhance appreciation of the author's world without end, but it is not required. Corsage is a self-contained tragicomedy realized in perfectly pitched prose that reveals some of the nobler and most of the baser elements in human nature. In the first of two parallel plots, a pair of practical jokes leads to the Love Nest killings. A second story line relates the daring courtship and tragic marriage of Edward and Katrina, who remarks, "It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself." It's a point well taken throughout this tale...