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RUNNER-UP: Five Hundred Self-Portraits (Phaidon; $29.95) Artists form their vision of the world by looking at themselves. These mirror images scan 4,000 years of art history from ancient Egypt to right now, from Masaccio to Ron Mueck...
...these days, Gilje drawings are more then simple fun. Her accomplishment is that she makes the viewer reexamine the act of seeing. Because Gilje alternates more subtle "restorations" with overt ones, even an uninformed viewer will catch onto her game. Gilje's work makes you realize how quickly we scan images and, as a result, how much we miss. She asks that we reconsider the act of looking at paintings from the past, and perhaps art in general. No small mental task, but one well worth the effort, both Gilje...
...anxiety begins when the girls are about eight years old. "Did you notice so-and-so is developing?" one mom whispers to another as they scan their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...
...tech community may recoil at such a proposal--and at Bush's remarkable denial of personal volition--the plan makes political sense. It takes what most people see as a technological dragon and promises that it will be slain by a technological St. George, filter software that can scan through the Internet and block access to anything objectionable--pornography, hate speech, bomb-making instructions, you name it. Since it's a technical issue, the computer experts will handle it, and the electorate can go back to sleep. Unfortunately, the problem isn't that simple: Filter software is beset by fundamental...
...violinist can reasonably do, who can appreciate Galois' letter, who will recognize fluency. Beauty cannot exist in the mirror. The observer may live somewhere else, sometime else, speak a different language, come slowly into knowledge. But the great distance of many other witnesses is of little consolation as we scan the room to see if we're being observed...