Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene around 1466 East 54th St., a yellow frame and stucco building, quickly took on a surrealistic air. While sweating TV camera crews toted their equipment into place, 18 heavily armed members of the Los Angeles police department's special weapons and tactics unit (known as SWAT) got ready for battle. Wearing bulky flak jackets, they closed in on the house and gently clicked off the safeties on their semiautomatic weapons. Curious neighbors wandered over, largely unimpeded, to see what was happening. Knots of people stood in their backyards, waiting for some Friday-night entertainment. Minutes later...
...MANY OTHER Cambridge art galleries, the only remnants of their existence are defunct listings in the Yellow Pages. The shop which used to house Perspectives on Mass Ave. is now a crafts shop. The Paul Shuster Art Gallery on Mt. Auburn St. is now a photograph enlarger, the Big Picture...
Columnar Thighs. Here are the classic bolts of melody: Judy Garland traveling the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz; the unfinished face of Frank Sinatra apostrophizing Manhattan in On the Town; Fred Astaire, the world's most sophisticated stick figure, dancing on the ceiling in Royal Wedding; Gene Kelly's soaking-wet aria in Singin'in the Rain...
...flight. His office at 641 Huntington Ave. is clearly a temporary measure, dominated not by a massive oaken desk, but by a few filing cabinets and bulletin boards. There is another map of Africa, perforated by colored push-pins, and an exhortation, carefully written in magic marker on lined yellow paper, to remember that "I" is the least important word and "we" is the most. His inspirational message is obscured when the office door is open. Karefa-Smart maintains a more substantial address out in Weston with his wife, but, from all appearances, he is only hanging his hat here...
...INTENSITY and value are the keys to any understanding of how color operates in art, and it is the fatal flaw of this show that it gives no clear definition of those three words. Very simply, hue is what shade-blue, green, red, yellow. Value refers to how close to white or black the hue is, and intensity is how pure the hue is-how free it is from dilution with white or black...