Word: surrounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Just as Antonakos's other neon installations take on different qualities from the changing effects of light and space, Time Boxes 2000 is about the actuation of the work of art in the surround of time. When the project was inaugurated in 1974, its departure from a concurrent mode of conceptual art, the earthworks movement, could not have been more pronounced. Both forms of conceptual work take on the way changing conditions act upon the art object. But whereas earthworks make a cult of entropy and the dissipation of the art object through time, Antonakos's time capsules are instead...
Grandin said that "squeeze machines"--large devices that surround a person with gentle pressure--can help reduce anxiety in autistic children so that they can enjoy human contact. Grandin invented the first such machine as a teenager...
...Vagina. There I've said it. I am saying it to celebrate my womanhood because what you don't say becomes a secret which shame, guilt and embarrassment surround." So opens Eve Ensler's dynamic and candid play The Vagina Monologues, now showing at the Agassiz Theater. In its original form, Ensler's singular work was made to lead the audience towards a celebration of the "sustenance, humor and creativity" that encompass the woman's discovery of self. Indeed, her avowed purpose in writing the piece was to communicate the abuse of the vagina to the general public...
...science becomes more of a part of the modern world, we must expand the ways in which we collectively discuss the political issues that surround science and technology," said Kirchhoff, who is also a Crimson editor...
Shrrie Elliot, one of Diallo's neighbors, was walking home past Diallo's apartment on the night of the shooting and says she saw the four plainclothes officers climb out of their car, guns drawn, and surround Diallo's entryway. Defense lawyers had hoped that Elliot, an unwilling witness, would provide a key piece of information and leave it at that. She obliged to a certain extent, saying she heard someone yell "Gun!" before the shooting began. That cry, the defense team contends, is evidence the police saw Diallo as a threat and were justified in firing on the unarmed...