Others are less concerned with issues that make for good biennial panel discussions and more interested in mining older art — Surrealism, Minimalism and Postminimalism — and employing craft techniques.
Many seemed concerned about issues that are either not in the health care legislation or are peripheral to the debate in Washington — abortion, euthanasia, coverage of immigrants, privacy.
Concerned with issues that affect Chinatown's immigrants, Ms. Ling said her own story — her Chinatown tenement burned down in 2008, rendering her homeless for a year — helped show her how important, yet precarious, that community is.
"I don't feel that it's a sign of weakness to be concerned about issues that affect women's lives – issues that sometimes don't get taken seriously because they largely affect women".
But it was an indication of how Puerto Ricans here are more concerned about issues that affect their daily lives and, like those in Puerto Rico, are divided on what the island's political status should be.
The Ferrer campaign has focused so intently on appealing to Latino and black voters that it has given the impression to large numbers of New Yorkers that it is not sufficiently concerned about issues that are important to whites and other racial or ethnic groups.
"There must be a governmental voice against the hellish and archaic social injustice allotted to animals in the United Kingdom simply because those animals do not speak English," he wrote, "otherwise millions of very caring citizens are greatly concerned about issues that no one is able to do anything about".
Mr. Gates remained concerned about the issues that led him to Communism: poverty, discrimination, homelessness, hunger and inadequate schools and health care.
The study, published in the journal The Aging Male, found that men were most concerned with health issues that would go on to affect their independence and quality of life.
