Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teens. America's leading zeitgeist indicators are storming the Palace by the tens of thousands, in all their tribal, hormone-addled glory. They behave like adolescents everywhere, which is to say they dress badly, act obnoxious and travel in packs. Clans like Anarchy and the DiVas drape their slouching cartoon avs in baggy "sk8ter" duds and goof on one another with "scripts"--programs that let you string a strand of hearts around the neck of someone you admire or grandly urinate on someone you don't. In the Palace you never know what will happen. "The other night...
Other influences besides Benton converged on him as well: the Mexican muralists of the '30s, especially Siquieros and Orozco; Picasso; Surrealism; Kandinsky; tribal art. As Varnedoe points out in his admirable catalog essay, if the notion that Pollock was some sort of cowboy isn't true, neither was he any kind of Indian. He'd seen Native American ceremonies and pictographs as a kid in Arizona, but his attachment to Indian art as a source of "primitive" authenticity came from museums and exhibitions in New York and was confirmed by other mentors he was acquiring, such as the painter John...
...hyperconsciousness of the tribal is one of the functions of city life. Certainly it was for Pollock, and from it stemmed his abiding interest in the "totemic"--in mythic images that were either lost to modern, Euro-American culture or buried so far back in its origins that they seemed mysterious and exotic. Pollock in the late 1930s was a boy in deep emotional trouble, drinking like a fish and undergoing Jungian analysis. Like other Abstract Expressionists-to-be (Mark Rothko, for instance), he was on the lookout for archetypes and dark, unconsulted levels of feeling, in the hope that...
...world premiere of faculty member Monica Levy's "Tongue in Cheek" rounded off this diverse program of 19th century old-school ballet and unconventional tribal dance-steps. This jazzy medley of five vignettes set to Gershwin classics celebrates the 1998 Gershwin Centennial with its toe-tapping tunes and playful pas de deux between the 10 male and female performers. The costumes and make-shift veranda almost seemed lifted from an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, as the stunning starlettes shimmied amongst the debonnaire gents in brazen precocity. One was almost tempted to swoon vicariously through the dancers as they linked arms...
...with them, the cures for just about any disease imaginable. This is taught to every second grader, and it is one of the main themes in the new IMAX film Amazon. Now playing at the Boston Museum of Science, Amazon follows two medicine men--an American ethnobotonist and a tribal shaman--on their separate quests for new plants and possible medicines, before they are gone. Although it hasn't been as well publicized as Everest, the other IMAX film currently playing at the museum, crowds of a respectable size still venture out into the night to see the show, even...