Word: shows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Threads of Dissent" tapestry exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Oct. 22,1999-Jan. 30, 2000) is either a contradiction in terms or a play on words. The show brings together modern tapestries by six contemporary artists--Murray Walker, Lilian Tyrrell, Leon Golub, Edward Derwent, Wojciech Jaskolka, and Jorge Pardo--who use the antiquated medium of tapestry-making as a vehicle for social commentary. Although criticisms of modern society is touted as the exhibition's concept, the show in reality places more emphasis on 'descent' rather than 'dissent'--more preoccupied with showcasing the at times overly-forced geneology connecting...
...pride: they just come out all wrong. In the photograph A Great Day in Boston, there are 810 beaming Boston visual artists. Behind all those goofy banners on Harrison Ave., there are three excellent commercial galleries and two lively non-profit spaces. The commercial galleries of Boston often show wonderful works by local, national and international artists, both emerging and established. The galleries tend to migrate from neighborhood to neighborhood every decade or so in search of collectors and cheaper rent, clustering around each other to benefit from the combination of their attractions. Currently, there are two centers, Newbury Street...
...Humor for me is a language. Humor is much more incisive and precise. It can show the barbarity of humanity better than the tragedy itself. It is better to answer negative events without violence, to answer death with life...
...want to show people that we are a very mixed-race band from NYC. Do you know the Benetton company? Their ads always put people of different races together, we're like that, we are the Benetton band. We are all proud to have this mix. We are enjoying it, that we can make one thing from five different things. It might be difficult for politics, but I think it benefits our music...
...times so wicked, so sensationalist (think lots of incest and death), that the audience can't help but be captivated. Whether it be the orgy at the end of the first act or the well-choreographed (but comedic) swordplay that results in death and still more death, this show is, if nothing else, entertaining...