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...went to my 20year reunion at Brown, and nothing had changed but the paint." Even so, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania are among the Ivies spending millions to spiff up their dorms. Stanford University is in the middle of a $300 million housing renovation. Still, says Rodger Whitney, executive director of Stanford's student housing, "We're not going in the direction of providing what I call country-club facilities...
Keep in mind that the John Currin retrospective, now at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, is not actually called "Welcome to the Boom Boom Room." It's just hard not to think of it that way, and not only because so many of Currin's paintings are of women with breasts so large you want to yodel from one to the next. (It's a safe bet that he's the only painter of note ever to rate a review in Juggs magazine. A rave, of course.) But there's another kind of boom boom...
Figurative artists have always quoted from the past, but Currin, like a good postmodernist, puts his quotes in big quotation marks. Walk through any of the later galleries in the Whitney show, and what you experience is a sustained conceptual flutter, a continual flickering between high and low, Mannerism and kitsch, Parmigianino and sleazerino. It's a strategy that makes his work radical and familiar at the same time, like an especially snappy new running shoe, which in any market is never a bad idea...
...addition to winning Greenwood fans across the country, the inventive, interdisciplinary fusion that characterizes Tracy and the Plastics has been attracting national attention from art critics and cultural institutions. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for instance, recently included Greenwood in its 2004 Biennial Exhibition...
...particular incident, however, is disconcerting; the Globe reported that after senior Jacob Whitney publicly refused to shake the governor’s hand—a gesture purportedly intended, and received, as a joke—Whitney claims the school delivered him a three-day suspension. Although the Globe quoted the Superintendent of Schools Robert A. O’Meara as saying no student would be disciplined for refusing to shake the governor’s hand, Whitney and his mother claim otherwise—although Whitney does admit to furiously punching a hole in the wall of the school...