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...register and record the thoughts and influences of one artist. The questions of artistic authorship—is the exhibition a group show, the brochure asks, or a solo show?—are less interesting than the way that this collection of entangled objects evoke a city, an era, a style, an individual. The grid doesn’t end at the exhibit’s door, and Balteo Yazbeck’s entanglements even become visible outside the walls of the intimate museum.—Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu...
...Stage,” which will be on display from Feb. 1 through April 27, offers towards understanding its uniting concept. The introductory text reads, “‘The World as a Stage’ acknowledges how life and art are experienced in our spectacle-soaked era of reality TV and celebrity worship, in which both ordinary citizens and the famous share center stage.” In lieu of an artist, a movement, or a time period as the orienting category for the exhibition, the unifying theme becomes central for understanding the rationale behind the selection...
...that's where the simple comparison to the U.S. after 1945 breaks down. Journalist turned businessman Jim McGregor, one of the most astute observers of modern China, says that the country is cramming three different eras of U.S. history into one. In U.S. terms, the postwar prosperity that fueled the flight to the suburbs is happening at the same time as the 19th century Industrial Revolution that lured people from the farm to the cities, and also as Progressive Era efforts to rein in the worst abuses of capitalism take shape. I asked Guo if he agreed. He nodded...
...longing for easy boundaries is appealing now that navigating media is so hard. The call to keep prime time safe is a kind of nostalgia for an era when there were three networks and prime time meant something. Today your TV remote doesn't distinguish between broadcast and cable. A 10 p.m. drama can stream online or play on DVR or DVD at any hour. It's always prime time, or it never...
...displays of affection for St. Valentine’s Day emerged sometime in the fifteenth century, according to Watson. During this time, people first began to address each other as “Valentine” and send each other little gifts as tokens of their affection. Since that era, the tradition of mailing cards to loved ones gradually spread to Britain and eventually to the United States in the 1840s. By the late 1850s, Americans were buying 3 million pre-made Valentine cards a year. According to the Society of American Florists, 214 million roses are expected...