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BOOKSHELF In his new book, «Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs: Selections from the Ektachrome Archive,» Lyle Ashton Harris presents images of «emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and»90s,» alongside his journal entries and contributions from a diverse slate of curators, writers, and fellow artists.

Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.

From textiles to advertizing, from icon - laden clothing to symbolic images, and from comics to films, this expansive exhibition traces the path of the uniform from the immediate post-war period to today through some of its most emblematic figuFrom textiles to advertizing, from icon - laden clothing to symbolic images, and from comics to films, this expansive exhibition traces the path of the uniform from the immediate post-war period to today through some of its most emblematic figufrom icon - laden clothing to symbolic images, and from comics to films, this expansive exhibition traces the path of the uniform from the immediate post-war period to today through some of its most emblematic figufrom comics to films, this expansive exhibition traces the path of the uniform from the immediate post-war period to today through some of its most emblematic figufrom the immediate post-war period to today through some of its most emblematic figures.

Shown for the first time, this exhibition of thirty - four chromogenic prints selected from the artist's personal archive of 35 mm Ektachrome color reversal slides represents a unique document of ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and 1990s against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization.

Certain key motifs appear over and over: skinny legs that seem to have been de-boned, piles of old shoes, cartoonish and clunky, clocks with one hand, low hanging light bulbs and, again and again, these hooded figures that may be Klansmen or something more personally emblematic: the masks that artists, like all of us, hide behind; the disguises we don to face or shy away from the world; the evil, banal and faceless, that lurks within us all.

Ms. Gross's work, built from the fundamentals of spare, precise movement and gesture and staged with a painter's eye for figures in space, was emblematic.