Word: visualization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-year-old Jacob Smith left the side of his mother, who had traveled from New York to act in an American Repertory Theatre production. The pair were descending a staircase leading from the main lobby to the basement of the 25 year-old Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The toddler ducked between a nearly three-foot-wide gap in the stair railing and fell one story to the concrete floor...
Some, like Mark Leong '88, say that a fellowship could be a dream come true. Leong, who did his senior thesis on Chinatowns in American cities, received a Peabody Gardner traveling fellowship from the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. He will use the money to travel and take photographs in China. He says he hopes the fellowship will give him the skills he needs to fulfill his dream to work in China as a photogrpaher...
Slapstick--intentional or not--seemed to draw the most attention in the visual arts. After all, this was the year that students in a Visual and Environmental Studies course were asked to kill a chicken and make a sculpture out of its bones...
...investigation to exonerate them. Ronald King, a Brooklyn school counselor, almost canceled two Eastern tickets for a Bahamas vacation with his girlfriend. Says he: "I had to stop reading the newspaper so I wouldn't get scared of getting on the plane." The airlines know well the devastating visual impact of a damaged plane. When the fuselage of an Eastern DC-9 cracked in half during a hard landing at Pensacola, Fla., last December, injuring three, airline workers quickly concealed the carrier's name with a tarpaulin. Similarly, Aloha employees hurriedly covered their company's logo on the damaged...
Proceeds from the auction -- after Sotheby's 10% commission -- will go to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, established in the artist's will. And the foundation need hardly fear that Warholmania will fade after the final gavel. Also under way are major exhibits, movie retrospectives, books and the franchising of the Warhol name on a line of sportswear, watches, collector's plates and home furnishings. The marketing of the mystique seems perfectly natural in the case of a man who once declared, "Good business is the best art." Nonetheless, last week's inflated auction prices were "queasy...