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...what the options are,” she said. “Cervical cancer kills thousands of women every year, and this is such an easy way of preventing that.” Quigley believes it is important for women to be “in front of the wave?? in protecting themselves. “This is the type of thing that I think will be routine for women beyond our generation,” Quigley said. “Personally, I think it would be a very good thing if the university or UHS would...
Friday, Oct. 7. “In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave.” Princeton philosopher and vegetarian activist Peter Singer discusses the “second wave?? of animal rights activism. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...main problem with participation-oriented work such as this seems to be that the value it offers to the viewer begins and ends in the participation. You wouldn’t be surprised to find a miniature version of a piece like “Wave?? in a Sharper Image catalog or sitting on the desk of some executive. Which is not to say that playing with “Wave?? isn’t fun, but rather that it is, ultimately, dumb. At its best this work offers a very immediate satisfaction, but they...
Perhaps this is why several of the artists featured in this show moved on soon after the period from which this work is taken. By the late 1960s, Hans Haacke had largely retreated from the experiential issues explored in works like “Wave?? and began to use his work to launch a much more powerful political critique that reached far beyond the museum context to engage broader social issues. And as Weiss points out in her essay in the exhibition catalog, Charlotte Posenenske stopped making art altogether in 1968 and began studying sociology because...
...branch, and gave it a tug. The lacy pattern of sunlight and shadow leapt and danced and the branch swung wildly. I think I could have stayed there pulling on that branch and watching those shadows dance until the sun went down. I liked playing with “Wave?? and “Head Body Limbs,” but I don’t think both of them combined really held my attention for more than five minutes...