Europe in the Looking Glass: Reflections of a Motor Drive from Grimsby to Athens.
Appropriately, Black Mirror is viewed in a booth surrounded by smoky glass reflections, casting the image in a kaleidoscopic pattern around the viewer.
"Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change," an exhibition of more than 200 vessels, including bowls, jugs, cups and bottles, starts today and runs through June 11.
The stunning variety of glass objects in daily use at the time incorporated virtually every glass-working technique known today, as can be seen in "Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change," an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, at 18 West 86th Street, Manhattan, through June 11.
From tomorrow through June 11, more than 200 glass bowls, cups, jugs and bottles from the second century B.C. to the early seventh century will be on view in "Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change" at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 18 West 86th Street in Manhattan.
As he is awakened to love and tragic loss, "Our Lady of the Assassins" turns into a kind of profane Passion play, an absurdist through-the-looking-glass reflection of the religious iconography that taunts him with its indifference.
Set within a context of coming home from war, this extraordinarily kitsch "descent into hell" offered its contemporary audience a looking-glass reflection of the anxieties of the soldiers who were still coming home from WWII and Korea.
The expensive clothes, the gleaming conference rooms, the glass-on-glass reflections and the lavish parties are photographed with a relish that makes everything resemble a layout for a high-end shelter magazine.
But as he does so, one more face appears in the glass: the reflection of the man looking into it.
