Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheap, nowadays, so cheap you'd be amazed at the level of conversation which the remake thinks is worth your time. Forced to be expressive in a medium in which dialogue could only be written on intermittent frames, Buster Keaton, film pioneer and comedy legend, relied instead on visual complexity and sophistication: carefully wrought facial reactions, exquisitely timed double takes, graceful slapstick and outrageous acrobatics. He was a master of both subtlety and extravagance--he was called "Old Stoneface" for his constant deadpan which could somehowwhere the facade of a house falls over on him but doesn't touch...
...only political strip ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, will one day make a great curriculum for a U.S. History class (Watergate, Iran/Contra, Desert Storm, etc.). Over the last almost 29 years, Doonesbury (through Trudeau), tackling such social issues as AIDS, homelessness and education, has put together a visual and verbal compendium of life's great questions and answers: how to treat people justly in a changing society, how to keep public figures honest, and how to laugh at issues that, without the help of humor, would otherwise overwhelm us with grief and despair...
...Just as MIT pushes at the frontiers of scientific and intellectual inquiry, it is the mission of the List Visual Arts Center to explore the most contemporary art making in all media," or so say their brochures. Despite the silly analogy, the List Center is impressively cutting-edge, showing artists like Kiki Smith, Ann Hamilton and Matthew Barney. The new director, Jane Farver, was selected as one of the six curators for the next Whitney Biennial: the exhibition program here has credibility to spare...
...CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS...
...illustrious Carpenter Center, home of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, holds the honor of being the only Le Corbusier building in North America. Against this starkly beautiful backdrop of geometric form, primary colors, and elemental textures, are held a constant string of rotating exhibitions. As a display space, the Carpenter Center functions as the typical university art gallery: Alternating between senior thesis displays, faculty shows, and periodic travelling exhibitions. In the past, these exhibits have included the work of such internationally-renown artists as Elizabeth Peyton and Kara Walker...