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...space demands a comparable broadening of the audience's experience of the work. Frankly "Comics Decode" hasn't figured out how best to do that yet. Where an author's reading of poetry or prose can shift the emphasis off certain words and onto others, exposing new meanings, comix' visual nature makes this much harder. The performance of comix must turn into more of a show. As a guide the producers and participants of "Comics Decode" should look to Ben Katchor...
...more than a low-budget horror flick released in time for Halloween, but it doesn’t even fare very well at that. Perhaps owing to the film’s (at times intentionally) laughable dialogue and generally unoriginal direction, genuine frights are few and far between. The visual effects and set design do have their moments, but the ghosts themselves too often look like tired haunted house props. And while the story holds the audience’s attention well enough, its supposed surprise twist is rather uninteresting and the ending oddly abrupt...
Some Options in Abstraction, a thoughtful and provocative show curated by Klaus Kertess at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, seeks to make this relationship accessible and concrete. Kertess has selected a small but rich and diverse body of work; these dozen paintings and photographs by seven artists illuminate some “options” in contemporary art. Viewing the works—awe-inspiring for their large size yet friendly and accessible in this familiar context—one is forced to contemplate the nature of what comes after the minimal, the reality behind a picture?...
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
Article to Be Written in Your Head: See Yoko Ono’s retrospective “YES Yoko Ono” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Imagine an article that discusses the history and significance of her work. Try to forget that she married John Lennon...