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...invent new holidays, and the resulting posters proclaim such whimsical additions to the calendar as Celebrate the Shoelace day (March 21) and &the Creation of the Ampersand day (July 6). Yet discussing his work in the chic, spare Paris apartment cum think space he shares with graphic designer Francesca Grassi, Huyghe is all seriousness. In explaining that clever calendar, he launches into a discussion of what he calls "time protocols," raising questions about what an exhibition is ("Why should it last 11/2 months - why not 10 years or five seconds?") and what an artist does ("Am I just something that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Question Maker | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...next weekend.” “Definitely,” I say. Definitely? A wave of nervousness rises and then passes. Yes, definitely. We shouldn’t have too much trouble. I mean, it’s not like we’re the hitchhiking type. Francesca M. Mari ’07, a Crimson photo editor, is an English and American literature and languages concentrator in Adams House. As you read this, she is hitchhiking...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, | Title: The Hitchhiking Type | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...sparklers are the simple sense-memory props that begin the journey: we are backstage at an end-of-year school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puckish Tom (Leon Cain), the son of poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold Coast resort, respectively?only to meet up on the same stretch of beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Takes a Holiday | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...under the direction of Howard created the rhythm of the show. The vibrating, wistful notes of the violin, played by Nina Han ’09, in “Learning to be Silent” perfectly complements Ethel’s (Caitlin Smythe) and Vi’s (Francesca S. Serritella ’08) ethereal voices.The set, designed by Malone and Owings, is simple but effective—a couple of benches and a pulpit for the church, a set of lockers for the high school, a poker table and couch for the Reverend’s living...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cast Kicks Off Its Shoes to Success | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...Beach Boys. So heartfelt and persuasive was his embrace of L.A. that within a few years his lambent paintings of lawn sprinklers, swimming pools and palm trees became part of everybody's mental picture of the place. Although he saw it all through eyes schooled in Piero della Francesca and Picasso, you could tell that what he loved above all was simply how of-the-moment L.A. was, with its sunstruck hedonism and emerging sexual freedoms, so unlike the confines of postwar Britain. It's useful to recall that one of Hockney's enduring contributions to the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of the Bad Boy | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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