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Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing...
Ogden begins on a scientific note, discussing her sampling techniques and academic interest in the matter of female sexuality. For example, the Venn diagram on page 73 looks convincingly technical, apart from its symmetrical, aesthetic appeal. Normally first seen in high school math textbooks, the three intersecting circles help clarify the mess of human sexuality that people cannot seem to avoid. As the caption reads, the diagram presents an "alternative sexual response cycle--an ongoing continuum of pleasure, orgasm and ecstasy." Although this continuum requires some further explanation, the visual aid provides a critical framework for discussion. To corroborate...
...lettering, highly reminiscent of a Harlequin romance novel. The interior of the book also betrays any serious scientific aims. Ogden's prose is casual, interrupted by sporadic fits of lyricism: "We allow the energy to reverberate in our consciousness and beyond." Now how exactly does that fit into a Venn diagram...
...narrator is an obscure descendant of Hannah Easton, a woman named Beigh Masters who has spent eleven years trying to reconstruct Hannah's life, going to obscure museums in Massachusetts and retracing Hannah's trip to India. Beigh also has an Indian lover named Venn, a computer scientist who spends his life attempting to make 'virtual reality' possible. When Beigh has gathered enough information about Hannah's life, Venn will be able to program the computer to create a simulation of Hannah's life. It is unfortunate that this compelling historical novel must be filtered through this ostensibly post-modern...
...about trying to exorcise the new threat. They burned a pile of blue proxy cards that Icahn was using to solicit shares. Women baked heart-shaped cookies with the Phillips 66 logo, sent off a batch to Icahn and stuck in the message "Have a Heart." The Leighton Venn Photography Studio posted a sign: I CAHN/ YOU CAHN/ WE ALL CAHN/ LICK ICAHN...