Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claire Steinert. Marion Kofman shows a plexiglass work called "Reflective Images" which forms fascinating patterns on the mirror below it. The Dorothy Gray wood constructions called "Timeline I and II" are interesting because Gray uses pieces of bedposts, stair railings and mirrors to show progression through time. The unusual Medium Award for the week goes to Patricia Verant for her sculpture of a giraffe made with epoxy glue and coconut shells...
Producer-Director Moustapha Akkad was confronted by a unique problem: the strict Muslim prohibition against representing the Prophet's face or form, or even his voice-in any medium. A wiser or less determined man might have bailed out right there, but Akkad, 43, a Syrian-born American who studied film making at U.C.L.A., pressed on, raising $17 million from Arab sources to make two versions of the story, one in English, the other in Arabic. His actors constantly address an empty space where the audience must imagine a silent Prophet to be standing...
...prisons both have necessary functions, but they sure don't go together," Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa said a week ago before a packed auditorium in Tanglewood, Mass. Tanglewood, in the Berkshires, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony and the state is planning to establish a medium security prison there. The proposal to convert a vacant Jesuit seminary near Tanglewood into a facility for 260 prisoners has met vociferous opposition from townspeople, area business and Symphony players who view the intense security and the omnipresent barbed wire that would accompany the prison establishment as threatening...
...young (under 30) but precociously talented artists who won't be unknowns much longer, judging by the genius of their work. Using a camera of their own invention, they have gone searching for the facts of existence with a vision that intensifies that existence. Masters of the photographic medium, the five possess perceptions that can take what appear to be simple realities and transform them into something more. Surrealism, superealism--these seem unsatisfactory and overly categorical terms to name such magic. No words can really capture this show--only seeing...
...such spoofs as Jiri Trnka's Song of the Prairie, 1949 (a spaghetti Western complete with an operatic cowboy) and concludes with the surrealistic Jabberwocky of Jan Svank-majer, a sinister turn of the screw on a Carrollian child-world of Victorian dolls. Included are some landmarks in the medium: Wills O'Brien's Creation, a test film that sold his talents to the producers of King Kong, and Birth of the Robot, a 1936 advertisement for Shell Oil, with perhaps unintentional subtleties. Technical masterpieces, these films are never simplistic, but alternately funny and, oddly, frightening...