"Animism," an unapologetically didactic show at e-flux, is a good prompt for a discussion of the implications.
Given his subject, Mr. Ballengée could have gotten away with a didactic show and tell, but he's gone much further, delivering visual drama and textured moral thinking.
So, to follow other anniversary exhibitions, notably "Velazquez and Seville" in Seville last fall and "Velazquez in New York Museums" currently at the Frick Collection, the Prado invited the art historian Jonathan Brown to organize a more modest, more didactic show.
Given his subject, Mr. Ballengée could have gotten away with a didactic show and tell, but he has gone much further, delivering visual drama — in photographs the amphibian skeletons shimmer like jeweled filigree — and textured moral thinking.
Given that its centerpiece is "DeLuxe," a set of works by Ellen Gallagher in which she inventively altered, to Pop-Surrealist effect, vintage ads for grooming products aimed at African-Americans, you might expect a didactic show about race, gender and class.
All three online modules showed a didactic pedagogy (show and tell) rather than a constructivist one (teaching for understanding).
Traditional didactic education shows little correlation with clinical outcomes such as glycemic control, blood pressure, and cholesterol [ 10].
But as the troupe will show at its Manhattan debut at the Joyce Theater (May 21-26), its social-protest roots are never on didactic display.
Although his purpose was didactic, he showed exceptional literary talent.
In fact my last brush with them was on the gently didactic CBeebies show ZingZillas, on which they were played and sung by a monkey puppet.
For all her eagerness to share her vision, Le Guin has forgotten that even in didactic fiction, showing is always preferable to telling.
