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...First Under Heaven" is a treasure Harvard is very lucky to have. It is an exhibition which should be of interest not only to the art historian, but also to the artist and those curious about the science of ceramics. Free from the conventions of Western art, the show gives us the rare opportunity to appreciate not how the artist has manipulated the viewer to an idea, but how the artist has manipulated earth to make it into such a beautiful thing...
...bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some of the virtues of Claes Oldenburg's work 20 years before...
...curious thing struck me during last spring's race relations crisis. I was sitting in a meeting with minority student leaders in the Eliot House Junior common room. While the students hated and mistrusted The Crimson, they liked and respected Anna D. Wilde, then our minority issues beat reporter...
Wyatt and Susan sometimes sound as if they were born and raised in a Garrison Keillor monologue about quirky loners and appealing blasphemers. Aunt Ellen's Scripture-in-progress posits a God that is neither loving nor vengeful, only curious. "You might as well pray to a telephone pole," she says. "I mean, if God loved us, we would know it, wouldn...
Assistant city manager Palmer has not budgeted for evil, but neither has he made a classic Faustian bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...