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...rebuild a business wiped clean by Hurricane Katrina? Start by dodging the M16s. A week after the storm pummeled the Gulf Coast in late August, Tim Spero, the chief technology officer for the NBA's New Orleans Hornets, drove to the team's training facility in Westwego, La., with a fellow Hornets employee and two friends. Their mission: to retrieve the team's teal uniforms, a batch of video equipment and a few computers to ship to another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team...
...scenes. "In the first six months I'll have 30% of the power," Cerezo told TIME last month. "In the first two years I'll have 50%, and I'll never have more than 70% of the power during my five-year term." Says Guatemala City Archbishop Próspero Penados del Barrio: "Whoever becomes President is going to have to move with great caution. You cannot have a dialogue with the armed forces...
...curators nobly attempted to showcase local talent, most of their selections are weak in comparison with pieces by better known artists. Carol Cohen's "Greek Revival," plates of glass etched with a body and set in a mauve and teal neo-classical base, pales in contrast with Nancy Spero's deft exploration of female power and representation in the ancient era. More disappointing, however, is the glaring exclusion of some of the most talented Boston-trained photographers such as Jack Pierson, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Nan Goldin (the subject of a recent Whitney Museum retrospective), who pioneered gritty work...
Screening of a documentary about the impact of women artists on 20th century art; includes interviews with artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Spero...
Only in the past decade has Spero received theacclaim and recognition that her unique visionmerits. The dialogue which fills the gallery thisweek as Spero and her assistants pass questionsback and forth will continue. The finishedinstallation will question the Sackler's ancientwork and bring new color to ancient artifacts,exposing viewers to Spero's insistent voice andits demanding questions.PhotoGabriel B. EberFacing page:NANCY SPERO, whose"Raise/Time" will open at the Sackler February 18.This Page:Spero's assistants, SAMM KUNCE(above) and SHARI ZOLLA (top), prepare theinstallation...