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Lieberman attributes the most influence, however, to Helen Mirra, the artist and VES professor who taught Lieberman’s first sculpture class and advised her thesis this year. Mirra pushed the conceptual boundaries of Lieberman’s art, particularly regarding formal and material decisions in her sculpture work. “She and I are really different, but I think in the way she approaches talking about art, her work and other people’s work, we speak the same language,” Lieberman says. “I like the ways she critiques...
...Greenblatt. Other members include physics professor Melissa Franklin, rhetoric and oratory professor Jorie Graham, history of science professor Peter Galison, visual arts professor Alfred Guzzetti, Radcliffe fellow John Kelly, history of art and architecture professor Joseph Koerner, education professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, visual and environmental studies professor Helen Mirra, art curator Helen Molesworth, African-American music professor Ingrid Monson, Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, landscape architecture professor Hashim Sarkis, dramatic arts lecturer Marcus Stern, and Humanities dean Diana Sorensen...
...Mirra Bank's Yudie takes us gently back to the lower East Side, where one woman grew up, married, divorced, and survived alone. Anyone who has a Jewish grandmother will find Yudie universal--sweet, a little shy, proud, opiniated, talkative. Although she's less obsessed with her Jewishness and much more self-reliant than most women of her background (she has been single and self-supporting for fifty years), her conversation plows with the delicate determination of a Sherman tank to the inevitable topics: food, family, marriage, and money. "Other people take pills when they get nervous...
...These Roots, a montage of still photos of Harlem in the 1920s with a stentorian narration by Actor Brock Peters, is the most traditional of the group. It struggles to compress a decade of black his tory into 30 minutes, and still man ages to repeat itself. Film Editor Mirra Banks' Yudie is a loving cameo of her Jewish aunt, observant and a little mel ancholy. An Old-Fashioned Woman offers a mellow and admiring portrait of Documentary Director Martha Coolidge's Grandmother, a redoubtable 86-year-old Yankee. She not only reminisces and airs her views...
...MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. 402 pages. Grove Press...