Word: yarns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There's a yarn store, for God's sake," she says."There used to be a yarn store on Newbury Street, but it didn't survive the rent increase or maybe the lack of interest in yarn--it has continued to survive in the Square...
...everyday objects and performance pieces from everyday events, decontextualizing those elements and thereby giving the piece a new function within the aesthetic space of the gallery. Often they rejected the confines of the gallery space altogether. Watts's and Kaprow's objects range from industrial plastics to balls of yarn to stamp machines, recalling Duchamp's ready-mades nearly 50 years earlier. But, while Dada posited itself in rabid and unwavering antagonism to the status quo and thereby destined itself to self-destruction, Fluxus had no prevailing militant ideology. It was and is an anti-movement, a flexible, durable...
...which began and ended in May (Yam backwards), offer an intriguing glimpse at the earnest wit and interactive character of Watts's aesthetic. The weakest pieces by both Kaprow and Watts are the found objects, such as a stamp machine and a bucket with balls of yarn, which are derivative of Duchamp's ready-mades. They lack the spontaneity and originality of Kaprow's and Watts's more interactive works...
Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick has now re-examined the old tale, after digging up just about every scrap ever written about it. In the Heart of the Sea (Viking; 302 pages; $24.95) is a spellbinding yarn, and, like Melville's classic, awash with human frailty...
While gathering the yarn strands...