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With last week’s announcement that Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi had taken home the Nobel Peace Prize, the 2003 Nobel season came to a close. And for the sixth consecutive year, Harvard professors stayed home empty-handed, absent from the ranks of those who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind...
...center. Its petals ripple. Wait, it's not a petunia; it's a circle of people. People in chadors, the head-to-toe black coverings of orthodox Muslim women. It's not mist; it's dust. They're on their knees, digging in the sand. The scene--from Passage, Shirin Neshat's newest video, a collaboration with composer Phillip Glass--is starkly beautiful, revealing itself slowly, as in a glass, darkly...
...artistic achievement. The critical consensus at the 2000 Biennial, though, has closely mirrored popular opinion. This was the year of the video: Douglas Aitken's installation "Electric Earth," which chronicles the nocturnal wanderings of a young black man through the streets of Los Angeles, was widely praised, along with Shirin Neshat's "Fervor." The Biennial is in an unusual position: it has to function as a two-year retrospective of contemporary American art while still keeping up with shows like P.S.1's. Aitken's piece, which was featured on the cover of the exhibition catalogue, embodies this trend...
...Ghosh '98, Clifford M. Ginn '98, Robin S. Goldstein '98, Carrie E. Grimes '98, James M. Higbie '98, Jackson, Johari, David A. Lambert '98, Kenneth Y. Liu '98, Jay P. Makadia '98, David W. Marcus '98, McDermott, Karthik Muralidharan '98, David E. Petrain '98, Jinesh N. Shah '98, Sherman, Shirin A. Sinnar '97, Darlene Smith '98, Teleman and Brant K. Wong...
Other winners included Geoffrey C. Rapp, Pejman Razavilar, Kelly A. Register, Adina H. Rosenbaum, Natalka R. Roshak, Bret R. Rutherford, Brian J. Saccente, David H. Sachs, Jesse A. Sage, Nishit Saran Nathan K. Scales, Naomi K. Seiler, Jinsesh N. Shah, Danielle E. Sherrod, Merav Shohet, Shirin A. Sinnar, Sonja B. Starr, Rebecca E. Stich, Ellen H. Takata, Connie W. Tang, Gilbert H. Tang, Xiomeng Tong, Heidi S. Towne, Omri Traub, Miriam Udel, Katherine Unterman, Ellis M. Verosub, Jason W. Veysey, David M. Weld, Bradley L. Whitman, Benjamin Wilkinson, Hong Yu, Jong H. Yun, Shouyee Yung, Ian G. Zacharia and William...