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...physically attacked the work of 35-year-old multimedia artist Lorna Simpson, but her installations are equally confrontational. Mixing photographs with short blocks of text and recorded bits of conversation, she focuses on the ways in which black women are treated like objects in everyday language and imagery. In a 1992 piece, Self-Possession, Simpson uses a Polaroid frontal image of a woman's torso dressed in black. Its red-gloved hands frame her abdomen and the words IS 9/10THS OF THE LAW. Simpson has also collaborated with actress Alva Rogers on Places with a Past, a work that combines...
...surprise of the judge, the first phase of jury selection in the Simpson murder case -- the screening out of persons unable or unwilling to face the hardship of a possible six-month trial -- rolled smoothly to a speedy conclusion with the selection of 304 prospective panelists. The candidates are to return in mid-October to undergo personal questioning for fairness and objectivity...
Subsequent reporting by associate editor Janice Simpson and editorial assistant Breena Clarke on dance, film, music and theater quickly revealed that the artistic flowering was much broader than a literary one. "In all of these fields," says White, "what struck me was the audacity and exuberance of the artists, some of whom had moved beyond racial themes and so-called black styles, and felt free to explore any form." That freedom is the keynote of this week's cover story, written by White...
...Simpson, covering the Black Renaissance was her final reportorial outing before taking over a new assignment: deputy chief of correspondents, in charge of TIME's national-news coverage. As enthusiastic as Simpson is about her new duties, which include supervising 68 correspondents in 11 bureaus, her work on this story reminded her of how much she will miss her first love, covering the arts. Says she: "Nothing makes me happier than being in the audience in a darkened theater, playing some small part in the magic happening onstage...
...Have you ever been to Nicole Simpson's condo at Bundy Ave.? Have you ever visited O.J.'s house on Rockingham? If so, will you promise not to visit those sites again for the duration of the trial...