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...ways in which the Obama campaign used design to the controversy surrounding intellectual property that was sparked by Fairey’s use of an Associated Press photograph in his “Hope” poster. Steven Heller, who has acted as an art director at the New York Times for 33 years, provided a historical view of the role of propaganda in dictatorships in “Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State.” Heller pointed to Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin as examples of the first politicians whose photographs were airbrushed extensively...
...stuff that I, and other people, can’t categorize,” he says. And as Biggers engages the viewer with innovative forms, he asks them to consider the very basis with which they understand his art.Born in Los Angeles in 1970 and currently based in New York, Biggers has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Whitney and the Tate Modern. This semester, he teaches two Visual and Environmental Studies classes as a visiting professor: “Objects and Environments” and “Spatial Poetics.” In addition...
...mind, and physical being. Computer and video screens flank a cluster of white, rectangular bars staggered by random height. Sounds sweep through the open space as the installation loops through three movements. The first sets a neutral and abstract tone; the second—which projects text from New York Times headlines onto the bars as processed voices recite news feeds into the space—emphasizes the fact that we live under a constant barrage of information; the final explores the ramifications of surveillance. Photographs of people who have walked through the exhibition appear on the white bars...
...plans to spend $1.5 million on such ads over the next few years and is airing the storm commercial in states like New York ( where Governor David Paterson has just asked for a gay marriage bill), New Jersey and New Hampshire, all expected to be the next battlegrounds in the marriage debate...
...strong language used by Obama struck some observers as the sort of black-and-white rhetoric he usually avoids - and that his predecessor had embraced. Many Catholics, including New York Times columnist Peter Steinfels, embraced the critique leveled by Slate writer William Saletan (a non-Catholic). "Proponents of embryo research are insisting that because we're in a life-and-death struggle - in this case, a scientific struggle - anyone who impedes that struggle by renouncing effective tools is irrational and irresponsible," wrote Saletan. "The war on disease is like the war on terror. Either you're with science...