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...magnets, surrounded by a microwave and other appliance wires, stands next a print of cheap ceiling lights. “Fridge” shows us something we see every day, and “Light” something we would see every day, if we only looked up. The exhibition??s titular photograph shares a similar appeal. In “Long Life Cool White” the subjects are two oblong fluorescent bulbs hanging from a room’s ceiling on metal chains. Only the lights and the strings that turn them on are in focus...
...Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the small in-house exhibition takes a kaleidoscopic view of its subject, and spans six millennia and nearly as many continents in 66 objects and 2 rooms. The show is now on display at the MFA through May 4, 2008. In the exhibition??s introductory text, Clifford S. Ackley, the MFA’s curator of prints and drawings, explains that the show’s “focus is on the sheer pleasure of looking and comparing how different artists in different times and places have inventively [rendered] the same...
...which is surprisingly lively and skillfully avoids desiccating the subject, makes these comparisons both accessible and rewarding. His depictions sometimes seem arbitrary, though such a flaw is unavoidable in cities as large as these. Rather than detract from the experience, the arbitrary nature of the photos contributes to the exhibition??s magnetic quality. Adjaye photographs what interests him and what catches his eye in his limited time in each city, something wholly interesting in itself. They are at once very personal in the story they tell of visual exploration, yet these stories arrive in the context of sprawling...
...still remain quite small: It has a total of six framed photographs. The show is meant to complement “Overlapping Realms: Arts of the Islamic World and India, 900-1900,” and is housed in the same room as the larger exhibit. In the exhibition??s defense, it certainly is an interesting juxtaposition to see such modern photographs alongside art dating back to the 9th century. Ketaki Sheth’s dramatic 2004 gelatin silver print, “No Parking, Bhuleshwar, Bombay (Mumbai),” opens the collection. The accompanying text says...
...last Thursday and will run for five weeks. The exhibit features photographs with interactive sound components, as well as a sound and light installation. Tutschku had an enormous amount of creative freedom and played the dual role of artist and curator. According to him, the process of creating the exhibition??which started last June—involved a careful balance of human, technological, and visual components. WALLS AND LAYERS “Conceiving of the work was a trial of putting together layers,” he says. “It’s like reading...