Word: walls
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...medication. The experience left her stunned and confused: "My left hand is caked in blood. I am wearing a gown and have masking tape in my hair, around my wrists, neck, ankles and knees...I realize I'm standing with my arms at my sides facing the wall, saying quietly over and over, 'I'm alive. I'm alive.'" In the account of her ordeal published in April, she noted that during the hours in which she battled for AIDS medication, an additional 7,200 women and children were raped in South Africa...
...grandma presides over the serving area, Death must preside over the dining area. (That's his life-size picture looming down on you from the wall, dressed in black robes and wearing the face of former Harvard President Charles Eliot--Eliot was the creator of the QRR, after all). The checker's table becomes Cerberus, sternly overseeing the passage of souls (read: diners) from savory-baked life to oak-paneled afterlife. The dining hall proper is like a vast tomb where emptiness oppresses from all sides. The endless rows of uninviting conference tables (sprinkled with too-few friendly round tables...
...hiding of the institutional trappings succeeds fabulously. The serving area is far removed from the dining hall proper, and the salad bar and gaping maw of the tray return are blocked off with a tasteful privacy wall whose carving design is echoed in the columns that mark off the "oasis" from the rest of the dining area--unifying the separating elements of the space. (This is opposed to Quincy, where the separating elements are unified by a similar "ribbed" design but where the salad bar juts obtrusively into the dining space.) The entire room is flooded with light from...
...park, where modern form becomes the temptation of a jungle gym. Sadly, while "interaction" is encouraged, climbing is forbidden. The museum itself exhibits modern and contemporary American art, mostly by New England artists. The aim and presentation of the DeCordova is didactic, which results in an irritating excess of wall-text. Recent figurative painting is the perennial favorite here...
...Originally the Museum of Germanic Art, the Busch-Reisinger has accumulated over the past century an impressive holding of post-1880 German art with a particular emphasis on German Expressionism. The stark curation and sparing use of didactic wall texts are appropriately austere, boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard Richter and the restrained hysteria of Max Beckmann. Also notable is a series of Bauhaus paintings (including works by Malevich and El Lissitsky), a pair of Jawlensky portraits, and an unusual Klimt. Currently on display is a collection of works by Hannah Darboven, touted by the curatorial staff...