And in their cases, as in Weiner's, it expressed itself not just in public ambitions but in private transgressions.
Interspersed with this are more private transgressions: three of Lucas Samara's 1976 "Photo-Transformations" in which he resembles, respectively, a homeless person, a pile of sludge and a hallucination.
To read: The New York Times Magazine's Matt Bai puts together a fascinating, complicated profile of Scott Ritter, the weapons inspector and Iraq war opponent, who seems headed for jail after being caught in an online sex sting: It's tempting to try to find some deeper connection between Ritter's public crusade and his most private transgressions.
"Pressure Chant" and "Private Transgressions" come from Løt.te, an alias of the Turkish-born visual artist and producer Mehmet Irdel who also co-runs the mixed-media creative outpost Rote Productions in Brooklyn.
William D. Zabel, a Manhattan matrimonial lawyer, said the public or private nature of a transgression can be a deciding factor in whether a venerable marriage will survive.
"In my curatorial work on the show I was interested in probing an uncertain territory whether it is possible to rehabilitate first-person narrative and private experience as tools of transgression and universal knowledge that transform the singular experience into collective manifestation of visibility".
I know Tiger is a notoriously private person, but conversations about his "transgressions" have become an unwanted volleyball.
This is because the diary is usually identified as a private pursuit -- a stereotype replayed mostly in transgression.
But Simon justified the choice after DiMaggio's death: "In these days of presidential transgressions and apologies and prime-time interviews about private sexual matters, we grieve for Joe DiMaggio and mourn the loss of his grace and dignity, his fierce sense of privacy, his fidelity to the memory of his wife and the power of his silence".
