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Avram D. Heilman ’03, the president of the Harvard Students for Israel, said he believes that the project gives a medium for students who want to assist those facing Mideast violence, but are unsure what...
...their influence is bleeding into other arts. Game Show, a recent exhibition at Mass Moca, included imagery appropriated from video games, as well as works that actually engaged the paradigms of video games. One artist produced an interactive retelling of a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquz through the medium of first-generation desktop games...
...simply as “Moulin Rouge,” was so popular that, within days, admirers were stealing them from kiosks throughout the city. With the success of “Moulin Rouge,” Toulouse Lautrec’s career changed course. Prints became his primary medium; flamboyant can-can dancers, brightly painted clowns, seedy nightclubs and crowded bars became his subjects. However, to focus solely on Lautrec’s widely celebrated prints would neglect a critical component of the artist’s repertoire and misrepresent his view of the avant-garde, glitzy world...
...Johnson’s collages are far more dense and not nearly as easily decipherable as Bergstein’s lucid imagery, his prints are oddly engrossing for their experimentation with mixed elements. Pencil crayons applied to the Mylar surface produce a visible texture identical to pastels and the medium only lends itself to a finite number of revisions. Ink lines must be removed with rubbing alcohol, which degrades the surface, so Johnson’s pieces must be planned out ahead of time. There is a comforting symmetry to much of the work, and subtle humor throughout?...
...Bochner came to New York as a 24-year-old conceptual artist in 1964 at a time when virtually no galleries were seriously exhibiting photography as art. Photography was an overlooked medium in its commercial relationship to the art world, so much so that the young Bochner purchased a Walker Evans photograph from a 1965 exhibition for the now preposterously meager sum of $100. In this art scene which did not yet value photography, Bochner produced a series of innovative photographs that proved the medium’s potential. His seminal works would later help to elevate the status...