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Such outsider viewpoints -- from new Americans and even Native Americans -- can influence others to see the world in a different light. To dramatize how the forces that ravaged the buffalo still exist, Native American sculptor Bob Haozous constructed 100 steel buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black...
Other artists have turned their sights on the nature of the immigrant experience itself. Choreographer Fagan's touring show Griot New York features sets by noted sculptor Martin Puryear and music by trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis. Employing a multiethnic troupe, Griot seeks to capture the drama of immigration. Says Fagan: "It's a celebration of New York City, of West Indians, Indians and Africans, of big urban metropolises that are always being dumped on." Fagan also wrote a poem to illustrate the show's theme of diverse peoples traveling difficult routes to come together in one nation...
...bust was cast in plaster by sculptor WalkerHancock, whose work includes the figures of RobertFrost and Hubert Humphrey at the U.S. Capitol...
...exhibit is a juried show featuring the work of 42 artists from Boston as well as other parts of New England. Painter Natalie Alper, sculptor Ah John Keys and the BCA's Exhibitions Manager Carole Anne Meehan curated the show; their combined vision and expertise makes for a show that is colorful and intimate as well as quite extensive in its scope...
Unfortunately, the other star, film actor Peter MacNicol (Sophie's Choice), seems irredeemably phony. That results partly from the writing -- he plays a big-time liar in the first piece, a sculptor equally duplicitous in work and love in the second -- and partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The big problem is that MacNicol, normally deft and winsome, fails to muster charm. The plays see life through these men's eyes and effectively excuse their sins. MacNicol's romantic devastation in the opening piece suggests peevishness, not agony. His utter ruin in the second piece is so shallowly felt...