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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black-painted room in the MIT List Visual Arts Center can seem, paradoxically enough, simultaneously minuscule and immense at first. For instance, there are only three exhibits on display in the entire room. But each one is so exquisitely delicate in appearance--and colorfully versatile in meaning--that a viewer can easily spend more than an hour entranced by the wonders that Reynolds' hand-blown glass holds...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...What I try to do with my work in general is keep the possible associations as wide open as possible," she adds as she gazes at the second part of her exhibit, "so that the viewer[s] can bring their own experiences to the piece." With a smile, she comments that one viewer of the next piece, a tangled-looking work dubbed Exhalation, was quick to pick up on its "definite influence of Dr. Seuss-aesthetic." Several good-sized hollow glass letters dangle between the ceiling and a podium, suspended by clear fishing wire and connected by flesh-colored rubber...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...photos, by far the most visually compelling and intellectually intriguing pieces in the exhibit, show paragraphs of original prose, printed on billboards that blend into the cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather the general meaning and formula for all the others...

Author: By Velma M.mcewen, | Title: MIT Kosuth Exhibit Gives Sub-Text to Text | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

Each sign commences with a question. "Can you read this?" says one New York billboard, before it delves into an examination of its own meaning and purpose, while challenging conventional notions of the relationship between art and culture. In each piece Kosuth thereby brings the viewer immediately into the discourse...

Author: By Velma M.mcewen, | Title: MIT Kosuth Exhibit Gives Sub-Text to Text | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...From the viewer's perspective, it is obviously more history than drama, but the reenactments cast an air of artificiality on the very facts it needs to stay true to. In fact, the film seems intended to get people thinking about how history is created and how it is created out of documents...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai and Bonnie Tsui, S | Title: Professor of History Paves Way for Fine Film | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

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