Hartley's work confronts the viewer with the question: Do you live in a way commensurate with such honesty?
A Florida police officer who was due to be honoured for his work confronting drink driving, was apparently too inebriated to collect the award.
In his blog, O'Connor wrote that his work confronts "a morass of contradictory realities that must find a poetic restructuring through investigation".
This challenge is one all Lispector's work confronts as it cuts away, sentence by sentence, at conventional conceptions of reality.
Now, in Spiegel (Mirror), the Belgian choreographer takes a retrospective look at his work, confronting himself with the violence, wreckage and sheer volume of physical energy he has unleashed on stage.
When considered with the companion book, "Congo Belge en Images" — a selection of images from the colony, including some, rarely seen, from the era of King Leopold II — the work confronts you with the stark realities and repercussions of colonialism.
Just at the moment when the art critic Clement Greenberg was campaigning for the flatness of the picture plane, this work confronts the viewer with a mute, implacable image of flatness, industrial style.
Julie Turkewitz and Juliet Linderman ("The Disability Trap," news analysis, Sunday Review, Oct. 21) point out barriers to work confronting the beneficiaries of Supplemental Security Income, but the idea of turning S.S.I. over to the states is misguided.
His work confronts head-on Germany's darker history and the show will include photographs and paintings from his Occupations and Heroic Symbols series from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Q.How can you address a conflict that isn't a big blowup, but is more insidious and lasts a long time? A. If someone's behavior is annoying but doesn't affect your work, confronting it directly might not be worth it, says Lisa Maxwell, a mediator with the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego who trains managers on how to handle workplace disputes.
