STUCK BY A NEEDLE Q: At the hospital, we were bathing a critically-ill patient suffering from AIDS. As I was turning him, a hypodermic needle (left in his bed by an intern) stuck me in the thumb. For two months, I was treated with antiviral medications for potential HIV exposure, suffering side effects that continued for several months thereafter including nausea and neuropathy in my hands and feet. For a period of two years following my exposure, my blood was tested every three months. I expect permanently to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, including sleep disturbances and flash backs. The hospital is saying that I should not recover emotional-distress damages beyond the six-month mark because a person exposed to HIV who has tested negative at that juncture is unlikely to become infected – and it was therefore unreasonable for me to continue to fear infection. I have undergone psychiatric therapy and taken antidepressant medications to alleviate my emotional injuries. Despite these efforts, my symptoms persist. My fear is so great that I have left the nursing profession for teaching – at one point even considering stooping so low as to become a lawyer. A: The hospital’s breach of its duty of care to you, resulting directly in emotional harm, is compensable even though no physical injury occurred – so long as your mental injury is a direct result of the breach. As for limiting your damages to the first six months, there is no precedent for such a bright-line restriction, in our common-law tort jurisprudence. Even if the jury issues an excessive, idiosyncratic damages award, then the court can simply exercise its power to set aside a judgment that deviates materially from reasonable compensation. Courtesy of Plaxall Long Island City NOVEMBER ARTS EVENTS 42 NOVEMBER 2014 I LIC COURIER I www.queenscourier.com Calendar 2014 9-01 33rd Road • (at Vernon Blvd) Long Island City, NY 11106 718.204.7088 • www.noguchi.org Plaxall.com LICProperties.com MoMA PS1 Museum of the Moving Image Noguchi Museum 22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, NY 11101 718.784.2084 MoMAPS1.org 35 Ave at 37 St, Astoria, NY 11106 718.777.6800 www.movingimage.us Zero Tolerance On view October 26, 2014–March 8, 2015 Over the past two decades, some national and international governments have garnered attention for imposing draconian laws that restrict the rights of citizens under the guise of improving quality of life. Rio de Janeiro has “cleaned up” slums by imposing a militarized police force and Istanbul has put pressure on minority communities by gentrifying the neighborhoods in which they reside. In Russia, the arrest of two members of the art band Pussy Riot for speaking against President Vladimir Putin, along with the passage of anti-gay legislation, has generated international ire. Such restrictive policies have marked everyday life in major cities around the world. Francesco Vezzoli: Teatro Romano On view October 26, 2014–March 8, 2015 Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971) has collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to paint five ancient Roman busts in the manner in which they would originally have been decorated. While white marble remains the quintessential material of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, extensive research has confirmed that ancient sculpture was painted in a vivid palette of yellows, blues, reds and greens. Dating from the first and second centuries A.D., Vezzoli’s Roman Imperial busts restore to contemporary imagination the decorated surfaces that have faded away over nearly two thousand years. A Memory of Astoria September 24, 2014–January 8, 2015 • In the lobby Organized by Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; lives in Brooklyn) works with video, installation, drawing, painting, and performance. Reflecting on his identity as a person of two cultures at the intersection of tradition and modern life, Wube makes work about the uncertainty of time and place and the malleability of memory. Lights, Camera, Astoria! October 26, 2013–January 4, 2015 • In the Amphitheater Gallery This exhibition traces the fascinating history of the Astoria studio, which has been at the heart of filmmaking in New York City since 1920. The site was the East Coast home of Paramount Pictures in the silent and early talkingpicture eras, a center for independent filmmaking in the 1930s, and the U.S. Army Pictorial Center from World War II into the Cold War. After falling into disrepair in the early 1970s, the site has become a thriving cultural hub that includes Kaufman Astoria Studios and Museum of the Moving Image. What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones July 19, 2014–January 19, 2015 Animation director and artist Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones (1912–2002) made some of the most enduringly popular cartoons of all time. He perfected the wisecracking Bugs Bunny and the exasperated Daffy Duck, and created a host of other characters, including Pepé Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, and the Road Runner, bringing an unparalleled talent for comic invention and a flair for creating distinctive, memorable characters to the art of film animation. In a career spanning three decades, Jones directed more than 300 animated films, and was given an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - Sunday, January 4, 2015 The proverb "necessity is the mother of invention" comes to mind with regard to Isamu Noguchi's involvement in industrial design beginning in the 1930s. Noguchi's efforts as a designer--he even started a business called Time Design offering a dizzying array of services--were motivated by many factors. Highlights from the Collection: Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - Sunday, January 11, 2015 The only thing Noguchi loved more than the promise of the future was the sense of belonging to the Earth he derived from working with million and billion year old pieces of rock. Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern explores a stylistic wormhole that seems to link the ancient past and the distant future in his work. 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