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...this was becoming. "We were on tour, doing the slide show, and men and women would come up to Al after," Tipper says. "Silently weeping." The weather started getting unmistakably weird, and Gore kept working on the slides, making the show more powerful. Producer Laurie David and director Davis Guggenheim saw it and asked him to turn it into a film. Gore didn't think it would work as a movie. It has now grossed $50 million globally and sold more than 1.5 million DVD copies, and its viral effect continues. In Los Angeles, producer Kevin Wall...
Harvard’s latest Guggenheim Fellowship winners plan to use their funds to study subjects ranging from garage sales to Ethiopian music. Unlike in years past, two of this year’s five Harvard winners came from the Department of Music. Professors Daniel P. Carpenter, Margaret Crawford, Kay K. Shelemay, Anne C. Shreffler, and Salil P. Vadhan ’95 beat out some 2,800 applicants. The 189 artists, scholars, and scientists who won the Guggenheim Fellowships will receive a total of $7,600,000, according to a press release. All five of Harvard?...
...life, according to the center’s Web site. A 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School, Schauer has been teaching at Harvard since 1990 and was academic dean of the Kennedy School from 1997 to 2002. Schauer teaches courses at the Law School and has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship. Thompson added that because the Safra Center was Harvard’s first major inter-faculty initiative, “it is important for the director to have connections and interests that cut across the boundaries that make up Harvard...
...architecture enthusiasts anticipating that the sterling sleekness of the Guggenheim Museum will come to Allston may have to wait...
...topiary terrier in the forecourt of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. At a time when cutting-edge art was still frowned on in Australia, Puppy-which required audiences to do little more than stop and smile and smell the flowers-was a palatable panacea. Later purchased by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Koons' Postmodernist sculpture would become a global mascot for contemporary art. But back in Sydney, Puppy played a more practical role, too. Its presence helped usher audiences through into the MCA to see the country's best private collection of Minimalist art, from Carl Andre...