Word: mediumly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Oct. 22,1999-Jan. 30, 2000) is either a contradiction in terms or a play on words. The show brings together modern tapestries by six contemporary artists--Murray Walker, Lilian Tyrrell, Leon Golub, Edward Derwent, Wojciech Jaskolka, and Jorge Pardo--who use the antiquated medium of tapestry-making as a vehicle for social commentary. Although criticisms of modern society is touted as the exhibition's concept, the show in reality places more emphasis on 'descent' rather than 'dissent'--more preoccupied with showcasing the at times overly-forced geneology connecting these modern tapestries with the magnificent tapestries...
...perhaps the most stunning piece was Edward Derwent's Dante's Inferno (1986). Although loosely based on Dante's allegory, the tapestry, a scintillating combination of glass beads and nylon thread, challenging the very medium of tapestry...
...Talk is cheap, nowadays, so cheap you'd be amazed at the level of conversation which the remake thinks is worth your time. Forced to be expressive in a medium in which dialogue could only be written on intermittent frames, Buster Keaton, film pioneer and comedy legend, relied instead on visual complexity and sophistication: carefully wrought facial reactions, exquisitely timed double takes, graceful slapstick and outrageous acrobatics. He was a master of both subtlety and extravagance--he was called "Old Stoneface" for his constant deadpan which could somehowwhere the facade of a house falls over on him but doesn...
...Hitchcock approaches his self-declared age limit for rock and roll, he beginning to turn his creative energies to another medium: he is writing a novel. The plot? "It's about somebody whose past changes, so by the time the book ends the beginning couldn't have happened," he says. Odd? Certainly. As brilliant as his music? One can only hope...
Feminism pertains only to the tranquillity of the female mind; it is just one type of self-identification. And music is just one medium which affords every individual an easy access to his or her point. Instead of seeing feminist music as exclusive and combative, those who can't relate should find a cause of their own and a medium of their own in which they might see themselves reflected...