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...realm of the contemporary, according to Kelsey. But Roberts challenges the demarcation by intertwining the contemporary moment and the art and social histories of the United States. The broad spectrum of Roberts’ work is especially apparent in her first book, “Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History,” which developed from her dissertation at Yale. The book examines how the work of land artist Smithson “absorbed, transformed, and sometimes refused the historical traditions that it connected to,” Roberts said. In the vein of her wide-ranging scholarship, Roberts?...
...model colleague, who brings diligence and creativity to every departmental endeavor.” Roberts normally inaugurates every HAA 1 course, an introduction to general art history that features a different professor each week, with a lecture on the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. The Spiral Jetty is a 1,500 foot-long earthwork made of rocks, mud and salt that juts into the Great Salt Lake. The land art is left totally unprotected against nature—it dips below water level, changes color and erodes. Roberts says that she chooses this piece every year...
...chance. There’s a ceiling and she can never rise above that.” Where’s this ceiling to be found when Syesha’s in the top three while early favorites like Jason Castro, Brooke White, Carly Smithson, Kristy Lee Cook, and Michael Johns watch tonight’s performances from their living rooms...
...same is true for American Idol, though each week it’s the American voters who decide the aspiring stars’ fates. You can be the most brilliant singer (like Carly Smithson, placed sixth), or the most endearing personality (like Brooke White, placed fifth), or the most authentic artist (like Jason Castro, placed fourth), but what Idol contestants need to get ahead is a combination of voice, likeability, and adaptability to the weekly themes...
...Smithson, a senior fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, D.C., said that the technical difficulties and expenses for the cleanup are substantial, but that Japan has the technological base to get on with the project - if the political will is in place. "Not surprisingly," Smithson said, "the Chinese and some outside observers have criticized the snail's pace of destruction efforts." That pace has just gotten even slower, highlighting the difficulty the two countries continue to face in putting a nasty past behind them...