Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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So many reflective surfaces in the collection at Dia:Beacon:
A Metro North train rumbles by. Footsteps reverberate in the shed. A child chants "boop, boop," listening to his own echo. And what's this? Through panes of transparent window glass set within a mass of translucent glass, the sun casts a perfect four-paned image of itself against the wall of each ellipse, a child's cartoony drawing of a window. After our eyes have been looking at the subtle daubs of Robert Ryman, the saturated colors of Blinky Palermo's paintings throb and spin. John Chamberlain's Privet is a particolored field of frozen kelp, a three-dimensional Richter squeegee painting. The most magnetic pieces in the collection achieve their effects out of nearly nothing: Michael Heizer's voids in the floor, and Fred Sandback's conjuration of tangible planes out of nothing but string stretched taut from floor to ceiling. posted: 10:07:35 PM |
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The Washington Post shows some backbone, withdrawing from sponsorship of an adminstration-run pep rally (otherwise known as the Freedom Walk, an activity of America Supports You), and thereby maintaining its journalistic integrity.
The reason why this was the right thing to do is that the press needs to have an arm's-length relationship with the government to hold them accountable," said [Bill] Dobbs, a spokesman for United for Peace and Justice, a national coalition participating in three days of antiwar activities—also including a concert and march—scheduled to begin Sept. 24.
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