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...Yorkshire farm was where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further...
...decided to sit down with a few to see how they did it. Bridie J. Clark ’99, author of “Because She Can”; Simon H. Rich ’06-’07, author of “Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations”; and Keith A. Gessen ’97, one of the founding editors of the print journal “n+1,” sat down with FM and confirmed that our degrees are, in fact, useless. But don’t worry! Read...
...able to see the treasures she had collected. Now they are grouped like exquisite Dutch Old Master still lifes in this home where she and her partner, Narda van't Veer, one of Holland's leading photo agents, live and work (they lease out the land for others to farm). "I like it this way, although the chandelier should be bigger," says Ravestijn, gesturing upwards. A larger one was taken down and sold the day before...
...lived near Leeds and worked from the age of 13 on a farm right where the suburbs began - and that was very important. I was always going to be an artist, since I was a kid, but the impact that farming had was tremendous. It's a very sculptural activity. Not just dry stone walls but stacking bales - big minimalist sculptures, beautiful and enormous. Plowing a field is drawing lines on the land, painting the fields - it's incredibly visual. And the dead animals. When you're a farm kid you see death all the time. When you see spring...
...Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand, must now be referred to as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), just published his first book, “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations.” Full of short, comical stories, dialogues, and playlets, “Ant Farm” is gaining Rich praise from many readers, including Stewart, and comparison to another former Lampoon president, Conan O’Brien ’85.“I don?...