Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, Kid (Christopher Reid) is grounded because of his bad report card. What's Kid to do? Sneak out, of course. Writer-director Reggie Hudlin gives zip and lots of laughs to this sharp, hip-hop comedy that blends a John Hughes-like ear for dialogue with the visual flair of Spike...
...slightly frayed but beloved museum, built as a re-creation of a Venetian palace in 1903, have real significance in art history. Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his only seapiece, and the Vermeer Concert is, well, a Vermeer: a sublime patch of silence and visual harmony washed in pearly light, one of only 32 known works by the master. The other "Rembrandt" painting, of a husband and wife, is probably by one of his pupils; the French works -- one by Manet and several by Degas -- vary from slight to trivial. It seems quite clear that...
Because graphic design does not pursue a purely (or even primarily) aesthetic agenda, no large-scale American museum show was ever devoted to the field until last December. Then the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis mounted "Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History." The rich, exhaustive exhibit -- consisting of some 1,200 mass-produced messages on paper and tin and plastic generated between 1829 and 1990 -- has now been shipped to New York City, where it is on view at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art through April...
...beleaguered high school teacher played by Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle finally got through to his unruly inner-city class by showing them a movie. "What's the answer -- visual education?" marveled a fellow teacher after the breakthrough session. "Partly," Ford replied. "If you can just get them stimulated...
Times have changed. Today the issue is not whether visual education (via flickering projector or state-of-the-art VCR) can stimulate students. The question is who should do the stimulating, and at what cost. With the debut of a controversial newscast for teenagers, a fierce battle has been joined over TV in the classroom...