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Word: canvasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the show, there's an obsession with the body, leering humor about sex and yammering about death. Tracey Emin's canvas tent called Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995) is done inside with crudely laid-out names and notes about old paramours. It camps out a short distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock For Shock's Sake? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

David O. Russell: I had just finished filming Flirting with Disaster and Warner Bros. invited me to come look at their logs--the logs of all their properties--and I saw this script, which actually I've never read fully, described, and I just jumped on it. I've always...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Russell Trades in Dysfunction for Treasure | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

As Oppenheim sees it, one of the best parts of the Trustman exhibit is that it raises these questions; "You're not asking, is graffiti art. You're asking, what is art?" It's true that this most unconventional (and original) of art forms forces us to reconsider what it...

Author: By Patty Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graffiti, Boston Style | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

Meanwhile, almost out of nowhere, a portly, mustachioed East Texan waded into the water in an old collared shirt and a goofy canvas hat. Of the several things the loquacious man told us, solicited or otherwise, he turned us on to one lure--a "can't miss" speckled trout-killer...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Father, Son and the Firechicken | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

Welcome to the strange world of body modification, or "bod-mod," in which the human form serves as a personal canvas to be cut, poked, burned, stretched and adorned. It's a world in which terms like journey and enlightenment are used to describe acts of self-mutilation that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brand New Bodies | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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