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...small scale by 11 artists from the New York and Cambridge areas.Small boats made from coffee spoons and matchsticks, unfinished model cars, vintage erector sets, little glass boxes full of tiny girls playing cat’s cradle—the exhibit takes intimate and treasured objects, often the outgrowth of childhood obsessions, and places them in the public eye. The gallery literally provides magnifying glasses for the viewers, allowing visitors to examine the most precise details of the artists’ miniatures.“HOW TO BE A GIANT”Oatman found the 11 modelers mostly...
...left at home—as a group led by terror warlords, a movement with roots in armed wings that had engaged in bombings and cold-blooded shootings. It was seen—ingenuously, by the left—as little more than an outgrowth of the Irgun and Lehi, heirs to Deir Yassin, implacable in its opposition to sharing or ceding land.”In fact, Begin and Shamir, both on Great Britain’s Most Wanted Terrorists’ list, won the 1977 elections for the same reason that Mishaal and Zahhar defeated Fatah loyalists...
...good." Making his protagonist a priest raised the dramatic and moral stakes. "A priest's family is supposed to be perfect," he says, "so anything anybody does wrong becomes heightened." As for adding Jesus to the ensemble, he says he did it not for shock value but as an outgrowth of what he was taught growing up as a Catholic (he now considers himself Christian but belongs to no church): that one should have a personal relationship with...
...always been more interested in fixing problems and making things better than I have been in running for office and getting my name on flyers,” Green says. His decision to run, he adds, was “just something that felt like a logical outgrowth of the things I was frustrated in.” One of those frustrations was what Green calls a “certain lack of responsiveness” among city officials to urgent civic needs. “We have streets with potholes you can lose small children in, schools that brag...
Street art is also in part an outgrowth of earlier developments in the wider art world, among them conceptual art, performance art and even earthworks, all of which took art out of the galleries and museums and, not incidentally, validated perishable artistic gestures--the performance preserved only on video, the leaf sculpture that crumbles in the breeze. A lot of street art lasts only a few months before it succumbs to the elements, is covered over by other works or is taken away ("buffed" is the term). "I've had dogs s___ on my work," says Leon Reid, a.k.a. Darius...