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...tokyo gallery usually reserved for the painterly impressions of Renoir's bathers, Monet's water lilies and Van Gogh's windmills, a group of white-gloved, green-uniformed installation specialists have gathered round the much earthier canvas of Judy Watson's Aboriginal Shield, which has come all the way from Wollongong. Around the corner, Ken Thaiday Senior's tiger-shark headdress occupies a cabinet where early Greek and Egyptian antiquities are normally housed. But this day the biggest impression comes when Patricia Piccinini's mutant possum sculpture emerges-bearing impossibly lifelike wrinkles, hair and fangs-from its packing box. "With...
...Prism also happens to be the title of one of the works in the show-Imants Tillers' 1986 painting, from a private collection in Sydney. Assembled on 165 canvas boards and referencing both Expressionist Georg Baselitz's figure of a German soldier and Timmy Payungka Japangardi's Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming, this postmodern picture puzzle announces the exhibition's intriguing but not wholly convincing contention-that multicultural voices and Aboriginal culture have colonized Australian art. "That's really the message we have-lots of cultural backgrounds coming into our show," says Nakayama. "And this is Australia...
...disclosure of e-mails and instant messages, some of them sexually suggestive, that he allegedly sent to several current and former teenage male pages in the House of Representatives; in Washington. As chairman of the House Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, Foley introduced legislation last summer to shield children from adult exploitation over the Internet. In a statement, the Congressman, who was a deputy Republican whip and until his abrupt departure had been expected to win re-election in November, apologized for "letting down my family and the people of Florida...
This hard stance comes at the same time as BPD’s “Operation Student Shield,” introduced in 2005 specifically to combat underage drinking in Boston. And if BPD’s experience with Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern University are any indication, students can expect harsher enforcement as Harvard expands undergraduate housing into Allston. We hope instead that BPD will reconsider its methods, and keep safety as its priority even while it must continue to enforce drinking laws...
...NASA on Wednesday cleared Atlantis to land in Florida at 6:21 a.m. Thursday - one day late - after astronauts performed two extra inspections of the shuttle's critical heat shield using a camera mounted atop the craft's 100-foot robotic arm and boom. No damage was found...