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...Angelus Novus, on loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem until the end of December. Rarely seen outside of Israel, the watercolor, depicting a strange creature that is part bird, part man and part angel, has sparked various interpretations over the years. Its former owner, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, believed that it represented the Angel of History. According to another theory, the painting was inspired by Adolf Hitler, who lived in Munich at the same time as Klee. When Klee painted Angelus Novus in 1920, Hitler had just entered politics and was practicing his oratory skills by giving hate...
Former TIME reporter Benjamin Nugent, author of American Nerd: The Story of My People, is also worried about the Urkel effect, though he thinks Obama is less nerd than nerd-adjacent. These are the types of terms you have to endure when talking to the author of American Nerd: The Story of My People. "He would be the guy the jocks didn't choose to towel-snap, but he would kind of stand there looking disapproving while they towel-snapped. Whereas McCain would be more likely to towel-snap you, and Sarah Palin would make out with...
...work.The creators and touring production cast members of “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” running at the Boston Opera House until Nov. 9, gathered for a panel discussion last Tuesday at the New College Theatre. Participants included O’Keefe, his wife Nell D. Benjamin ’93 (who co-wrote the music and lyrics for the show), cast member Paul Jackel ’78, and Becky Gulsvig, who plays the plucky, ambitious lead character, Elle Woods. More than just an opportunity to watch free excerpts from a hit musical, the panel inspired...
...Warhol has contradicted his own statement: his celebrity—and more importantly his artistic influence—has lasted for over 50 years.To commemorate what would have been his 80th year, and to help dismantle common simplifications of Warhol’s work, Harvard art professor Benjamin Buchloh has organized the conference “Andy, 80? Considering the Warhol Legacies on His 80th Birthday” to take place today and tomorrow in the Sackler Auditorium. The conference will present three speakers from in and outside Harvard who will present papers on Andy Warhol in the realms...
...Benjamin Bishin, a political-science professor at the University of California at Riverside who has studied early voting in Florida, says this year's turnout seems to bear out research on two fronts. One is that early voting "disproportionately rewards campaigns that are better organized" because it often requires more refined voter-mobilization efforts than regular voting does; the other is that it "lowers barriers to participation," especially for hourly workers, who can least afford to take time off from work on election Tuesday. "And the fact that these voters are waiting two or three hours in line, which would...