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David Hilliard: For me, it's important that all the people in these photographs I know, they're places I'm familiar with. I think that I do my best work when it's personal, but it's not important for you the viewer to know that. It doesn't need to be my grandmother. But the fact is, you have an elderly woman building a card house, which for me is the ultimate sign of optimism and perseverance, and yet at the same time it represents fragility because there's a gust of the wind and the card house...
...Sixty artists are represented, and their mostly large-scale works tightly cover the museum walls. Because the art is not grouped by themes, it is difficult to decide whether their arrangement is wonderfully transparent or transparently absent. Group shows force viewers to question whether those traditional distinctions of style, between figuration and abstraction, formalism and conceptualism, are useful any longer. Rather than rigidly opposed modes of creation, we have begun to think about them as mutually informative. The '90s, to a great degree, were about developing different models to help us attend to difference. At the same time, retreating behind...
Underwear. In 1992, an MTV viewer asked candidate Clinton the famous question, "boxers or briefs?" In 2000, we don't want to know...
Sigourney Weaver's powerful performance provides the viewer with real insight into the nature of crises. And thus, the film's center lies not in societal issues, but within the tormented soul of one woman. Grade...
...which examines Edouard Manet's Olympia, Huckleberry Finn, 1920s jazz and racy 1930s movies--recovers what was shocking in art we have (mostly) grown comfortable with. The enlightening Manet episode unpacks 19th century French society to show how a nude courtesan roiled the salons by staring frankly at the viewer; the Finn segment examines a contemporary push to pull the book (charged with racism) from a school. The series comes down on the side of art, natch, but deserves credit for arguing, not assuming, its point...