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Fogg Art Museum. Through April 2. "Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection." The concept for the show is embedded in its title: it speaks to the unique qualities of photographic processes, to the history of the medium and to the history of the collection under the stewardship of the late Davis Pratt...
Separated into three three conceptual themes--"Camera Vision," "Creative Vision" and "Constructed Vision"--the selection traces the upstart medium from a mere mimicry of established media to its emerging self-awareness as its own medium, and finally to its larger integration with the mass culture...
...through eight full cycles in one or another of a battery of 20 dishwashers; Lui's task is to examine each one for telltale signs of dirt. If she detects a speck, she must then decide just what sort of speck she has spotted. Is it gritty? Is it "medium soil" or "heavy soil"? When she runs through all the spoons, Lui turns to plates and cups and knives and glasses that have been emptied from the dishwashers, making the same inspections and rendering the same hairsplitting verdicts. She guesses she has made 30,000 such judgments in the past...
Some members of Congress apparently agree. Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska introduced legislation earlier this month calling for two-year prison terms for anyone who sends-or knowingly makes available-obscene material over an electronic medium. "I want to keep the information superhighway from resembling a red-light district," Exon says...
...imperial red parchment mounted on sticks of bamboo. Yes, you heard correctly: bamboo. Using bamboo sticks for a display that questions Asian American stereotypes is the equivalent of triumphantly shouting, "Ah-so! Me breakee stereotypes!" Come on people, get with the program. This is the nineties and the medium is the message...