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...that one of the more humorous, if often unintentional, side effects of conceptual art has been to make the museum-going experience unprecedentedly uncomfortable. As I walked into the gallery the first thing I saw was “Wave,” a 1964 sculpture by the artist Hans Haacke. The piece consisted of a thin rectangular slab, almost five feet long and a little less than a foot high, which was suspended from the ceiling by two thin cables. The slab was hollow and half full of water, and as its name implies, you can pull...
Called “the world’s leading viol vonsort,” Fretwork features guest artist Emma Kirkby, soprano. Works include English consort songs by Byrd, Wilbye, Tye, Hume, Dowland and Gibbons. A lecture precedes the concert. Tickets are $21-$59, with discounts available for students, senior citizens and groups. (Harvard Box Office) (617) 424-7232. Paine Hall...
...fragmentation of the last iconic smile as media exploded and blurred the idea of JFK. There is much of cultural critique in the work of the printmaker. It is as if by use of a mechanical impression with the same instantaneity that dehumanizes and desensitizes the modern individual, the artist hopes to reclaim this voice—originality by highjacking the apparatus of banality...
...result is an exhibition that includes several methods of printing—woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, screen prints—while embodying several inflections of what the process of printing affords an artist for her audience, the consumer. For it is with printing that the deflationary rhetoric of economics takes hold over art, that the struggle of the painter over poverty is cast in a new light—with the possibilities of reproduction that print afforded, production itself gained a stronger reference...
...change the culture by personally refusing to tolerate violence, whether that means not buying a CD by an artist whose lyrics glorify violence against women or objecting to a friend’s use of sexist language. We can act against violence in our communities by volunteering at a shelter or participating in vigils and rallies, such as the Break the Silence Rally at Cambridge City Hall on October 23 or during Take Back The Night week, held every April at Harvard and many other colleges...