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...hybrid" book project, you can't help but think how fitting the theme is. Hybrid in every sense of the word-suturing animal and animal, animal and human, text and image, science and painting, craft and creativity-they make it clear that Hulsey is after a very hybrid sort of art herself...
There is a glimmer of hope in the form of Level Best, a sort of white plastic sculpting material which is Amy Podmore's favorite medium. Her sculpture is about the only thing zany and creative in Boston art, if we are to believe that the exhibit is truly representative. Podmore doesn't need to rely on long-winded mission statements to connect with her viewers. A sculpture reminiscent of Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers actually works as a statement about childhood, with two pairs of trousers, one big and one small, attached precariously by yarn...
Though how these artists were chosen is quite clear, thanks to the beauty of an annual art show's bureaucracy, the reason why these artists were chosen is obscure. Besides Podmore, no artist featured shows any sort of creative innovation. If the exhibit is meant to further discussion of feminist theory, that could be done just as easily with a new book-and the Rose's wonderful museum space could be freed up for something that stands on its own as challenging and interesting...
...where will it all end? With increasing frequency, mention is being made of the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will be called upon to sort out the mess. Though there are doubts that the nation's top judges will want to hear what they may consider a state matter (see below), two parallel tracks are making themselves apparent...
...past, as always, remains contested: Washington still wants Vietnam to account for the approximately 2,000 U.S. personnel still listed as missing in action, and the Vietnamese would like some sort of apology for a war that killed some 3 million of their people, and which they blame entirely on the U.S. But neither side is inclined to allow the past to deny the possibilities of the present and the future: the President will raise the issue of accounting for the MIAs, but won't let that block the relationship; rather than an apology, the Vietnamese will press for concrete...