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Turrell light exhibit opens today By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
Before Saturday night, light artist James Turrell had seen his work “Gard Blue� — a projection of blue light forming a singular glowing pyramid — just once since he created it in 1968. Back then, he said, he was young, pushing boundaries and creating the type
of art no one had ever seen before. In the 45 years since, Turrell has garnered worldwide fandom, but perhaps the most striking characteristic of “Gard Blue� is one he’s tried not to stray from in his work since: focus. “I’m always reminded to stay clean and simple in the work and not get too involved in adding compli-
cations that don’t add anything,� the artist said, contemplating the work. “It’s nice to see it with a little more ease and grace.� Turrell was at Kansas University’s Spencer Museum of Art during a private reception for “James Turrell: Gard Blue,� which opens to the public at noon today. Turrell, 70, has been the
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GARD BLUE, 1968. Copyright James Turrell. Photograph by Florian Holzherr. Collection of Mark and Lauren Booth.
talk of the art world this summer, and the Spencer’s exhibition comes on the heels of the hype. The Guggenheim museum in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston all are featuring major retrospectives of Turrell’s work. While he’s Please see GARD BLUE, page 5A
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JIM BATEMAN, who has been managing his team, the Red Beards, for about 20 years, sits in the dugout on Thursday at the Clinton Lake Softball Complex. Paige Moore, the adult sports supervisor for Parks and Recreation, said the number of summer league teams dropped from 193 in 2011 to 144 this year.
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Summers of softball socializing continue, but with fewer players Lawhorn’s I Lawrence Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
f Jim Bateman could take a stepladder to home plate, he would. Bateman has a softball swing that could best be described as looking as if he’s been dispatched from the house by his wife to cut down a low-hanging branch. He swings at eye level with a downward tomahawk-chop action that has more than a hint of aggression in it. “He’s the only softball player I know that com-
plains about the pitcher throwing the ball in the strike zone,� says his son, Tim Bateman. On this night — the last one of the season for his team — the elder Bateman breaks out the Paul Bunyan swing and delivers ... a dribbler up the first base line. It results in a close, bang-bang play at first base. Bateman is out by only 10 or 15 steps. Well, you’ve got to understand, for Bateman
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and his Red Beards team, bang-bang sounds a little different than it used to. To prove it, Bateman, 63, tugs on his snow-white beard. “As you can see, we’re a team now misnamed,� he says. Some things haven’t changed — like the support and encouragement he gets from his teammates.
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A city ordinance downgrading first-time marijuana possession to a municipal offense, to be met with a ticket rather than handcuffs, was seen by both supporters and detractors as a softer approach to drug crime when it was enacted in 2005. Eight years later, the result has, by some measures, been quite the opposite. The number of people arrested or We have sericited in Lawrence ous concerns for marijuana possession on a first about racial or subsequent of- disparities in how fense has increased police enforce nearly six-fold over the last decade, ac- laws designed to cording to a study prevent the use of of federal data re- marijuana.� leased this summer by the American Civil Liberties — Gary Brunk, execuUnion. The study tive director of the ACLU also pointed to ra- of Kansas and Western cial disparities in Missouri enforcement, with black residents four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though the two groups use the drug at about the same rates. That the marijuana ordinance did not turn out to be the pro-pot law that some had either feared or hoped for might not come as much of a surprise to some.
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