Word: shermans
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MOST OF US will never see our names on the cover of Sassy magazine unless, of course, it's on the address label. Not so for the Sassiest Girl in America, Malikah Sherman...
...here's where Malikah Jamillah Sherman of scenic Staten Island put distance between herself and the pack. Malikah built a three-dimensional city--sort of like a diorama but not really--out of colorful construction paper. On the roof of each building, she wrote a word or two describing a social problem that would not exist in her perfect world. Additional sheets of construction paper were put to good use in the compilation of a booklet about her best-of-all-possible-worlds metropolis. One judge was delighted to discover the paper town's dual use as a crown: during...
Recently, a Federal Appeals Court returned to the lower courts a prior decision that found MIT guilty of breaking the Sherman Antitrust Act. According to the original verdict, the school had joined Ivy League colleges in "price-fixing" financial aid. The universities had been convening annually to ensure that mutual applicants would receive identical aid packages. All of the Ivies quietly acquiesced to out-of-court settlements that required them to cease the "data sharing." But MIT stood behind its beliefs, and went to court...
Then there's the gender problem. Of the 66 artists on view, exactly five are women: O'Keeffe, Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer. You don't need to be a Guerrilla Girl to object to this. By what contorted standards of taste could Jonathan Borofsky's flatulent bits of pictorial free association, or Keith Haring's cute squiggle salads, be thought more original, let alone more beautiful, than the best work of, say, Susan Rothenberg, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray or Vija Celmins? Where are those formidable senior talents, the two Louises, Bourgeois and Nevelson, without whom...
...district judge refused to consider this side of the argument. In a 2-1 ruling, however, the appeals court ordered the case back for examination of MIT's claim--with the dissenting judge stating that overlap was not a violation of the Sherman...