An installation upstairs at the MCA by Douglas Gordon, Phantom (2011), is attractive but it's let down by a nostalgia for surrealist imagery that is profoundly cliched regardless of its high-gloss presentation.
Unfortunately, the small model of the battleship is in a lonely corner, far from most of the maps and films and high-gloss presentations of southeastern Pennsylvania's fine points.
The presentation glossed over how it would do that.
As shareholders, we sit face-forward, quietly, while the CEO, or president, makes his presentation, glossing over balance sheets and quarterly earnings, assuring us that the company is moving in the right track.
One of the best lessons I've learned is to recognize when something is being "messaged" to me; when the artifice and presentation glosses over the truth to make something seem more than it is.
"But we want details about how our members would benefit from this -- something beyond the gloss of a Powerpoint presentation".
Otto Preminger's success with Laura (1944) made his name and helped demonstrate noir's adaptability to a high-gloss 20th Century-Fox presentation.
His comment took some of the gloss off the government's triumphal presentation.
His comments will take some of the gloss off the government's triumphal presentation of what is to be known as the Brighton declaration.
In this courtroom, Tsarnaev's actual guilt is far less in play than jury-grooming: building belief in one of the two competing narrative presentations through differing interpretive gloss on the same facts.
Spending time updating Facebook profiles, liking posts and pages, using apps where you choose from a list of worthy causes, and composing the perfect tweet shifts the attention towards self-presentation, and glosses over the realities of the pain and suffering elsewhere.
