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Poussaint, who serves as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at HMS, has been on the cutting edge of the mental health field since the 1960s. A pioneer in the civil rights movement, Poussaint is best known for linking issues of racial inequality with the practice of psychiatry and served as a field medic at two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s demonstration marches through Mississippi...
...organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore, but there's no denying Dali's role in making showmanship an art-world career tactic...
...stripped its sound down to barely a whisper, producing fragile songs for a series of independent labels. Comprised of husband-wife team Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, along with bassist Zak Sally, the band continues to produce songs that tell of a secret turmoil. Probably the most recognizable pioneer of “slowcore” (a sonically lethargic genre that also includes acts like Bedhead and Codeine), Low’s sad songs have long served as an emotional outlet for fans; only recently have they flirted with the poppier sounds that permeate the indie-rock scene today...
...Saturdays for religious reasons. Then there was the time not long ago when Simon discovered that a firm Hain Celestial Group had just purchased had absolutely no workers' compensation insurance. And soon after Hain made its biggest acquisition ever, shelling out more than $300 million for herbal-tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings in 2000, Simon had to get used to the idea that employees there sometimes came to work in sandals and shorts...
...CAMERAWORK Rump calls Berlin the German "capital of photography," and Baier cites Camerawork for its "fully fledged innovative shows." The gallery is named after the legendary magazine published from 1903 to 1917 by photo pioneer Alfred Stieglitz-the period when photography was established as an art form. Camerawork displays photographs by greats like Man Ray and Leni Riefenstahl, and features works by promising photographers such as Robert Polidori and Mona Kuhn. tel: (49-30) 31 00 773; www.camerawork.de...