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...latest Biennial is coming from. The 2008 edition, which was organized by Whitney curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, has no official theme. But one of its unofficial themes is what the pair calls "lessness"--work that's less bombastic, less puffed up and made with simple stuff...
Sculptor Ruben Ochoa, based in Los Angeles, operates in the great modernist tradition of junk assemblage that goes back to Picasso. Ochoa builds his work out of suitably despised things: broken concrete, rebar, chain-link fencing--the rubbishy stuff of construction sites. But he combines those elements to create ceiling-height formations that have a brutal grandeur. An Ideal Disjuncture, 2008, brings to mind the swells of Baroque form, but with materials so scrappy, they couldn't fall into the suave clichés of Baroque art if they tried...
...don’t cut it.” Some came prepared to wait. Erin R. Gilmour brought a copy of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility with her. Charlotte Braun, standing next to Gilmour at the very end of the line, had brought the free magazine Stuff @ Night to keep her company. Others could not be persuaded to wait in the long line. One man, who identified himself only as “Brian,” upon hearing that the wait for lunch would take up all of his lunch break, abandoned ship. Many gave...
...more maker. “We really consider ourselves a benefit to the community,” says chairwoman Diane Spurr. “There are people who can’t afford to buy things new, and we have a lot of really good, nice quality stuff.” Although the shop has been around for decades, the word is just now spreading among Harvard students eager to enhance their wardrobes without emptying their wallets. Sam Teller ’08-’09 considers himself a CCTS convert, having recently made his first purchase: a rain...
...certainly publicly he seemed to be straying." Fallon plainly knew the explosive potential of the magazine article; he called Gates last week before the Defense Secretary had seen it and warned him to "brace himself." Fallon told the Washington Post last Thursday that the article was "poison pen stuff" and called it "really disrespectful and ugly." In a statement issued Tuesday, he said "it would be best to step aside and allow the secretary and our military leaders to move beyond this distraction...