It is a world of pain and prejudice, evoked in spare, restrained prose that brilliantly illuminates a time, a place and a family struggling valiantly to beat impossible odds.
Nor can we feel the curator's hand stringing together idiosyncratic associations to illuminate a time line of taste or presenting artifacts that convince us of a time line.
For matrix selection, the face of the emission tube is divided into 16 square sections (four by four), of which only one is illuminated at a time by selective scanning directed towards it.
It is a true story, one that uses the distant past to illuminate a dark time in the present.
Figures long dismissed arise to lead when necessary Churchill being the most obvious example—and lights gone dark often reappear to illuminate a new time.
But, for the second time in this set of editions (after the Volkswagon board member on Monday), there was an interview that newly illuminated a big story; this time with Bouthaina Shaaban, an advisor to Syria's President Assad.
But there was something deeper and more fascinating going on as well, and what made Ms. Argerich's account of the Prokofiev so fascinating, both as a reading of the piece and by comparison with her own past performances of it, was the degree to which she illuminated a poetic and at times even gentle side of the work.
All is revealed — the videos projected, the drawings illuminated — in a timed sequence that forces movement.
They might be pages from a medieval bestiary illuminated by a time-traveling monk who has cribbed from Indian paintings, Tantric mandorla and ritual sand paintings as well as heraldic banners, sky maps, modern cartoons and modernist abstraction.
When you walk through the new Rijksmuseum, a room will contain furniture, paintings, ceramics, jewellery, silverware, even clothing – illuminating a moment in time variously.
