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...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
...kept at home? Who has to wear the veil? Who has their feet broken? Who is subjected to female circumcision so that they don't get any sexual pleasure?" Suleiman asks. "If to say that these practices are generally horrible is political, then I am proud to say that Women's Studies is political...
...think of my poems as my real gifts to you. They were my attempt to communicate with you despite the veil of secrecy inherent in the concept of a Secret Santa...
Albee likened the process of artistic creation to black magic. Both, he said, derive their power from the veil of secrecy that surrounds them...
Actually, it's pretty hard to see him at all. In literally every scene, every character's face is half covered in shadow, creating a veil effect. In one or two places this device might have made a clever comment on Gallimard's (and everyone else's) culturally induced blindness. Instead it just seems like nobody has enough sense to switch on a light bulb...