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...viewers just could not get enough of Eiffel 65’s “Blue”), “The Box” was the place.“Mirrorball,” a series of four programs of carefully selected music videos screening at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) through Feb. 23, may be the opposite of “The Box.” Quietly, respectfully watching music videos? In an art museum? If nothing else, the Mirrorball series demonstrates just how much the music video’s cultural place has shifted...
...recent student-made petition has brought to light the fact that Harvard art museums, while displaying an impressive collection of traditional Western art, have no permanent exhibitions of African art. The dearth in exhibits cannot be attributed to a dearth in African art itself—the Fogg and the Peabody museums are both home to several collections of African art that have remained in storage for years. The survey calls for a permanent African art gallery and condemns the “archaic, racist views that are causing these collections to be ignored.” As the Harvard...
...students identified as a security guard or a police officer banished about 100 students packing the aisles of the Sackler Museum lecture hall Wednesday, citing a potential fire hazard...
...anti-Nazi warrior. After the Nazis seized his family's flour mills and he was imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with Pope John Paul II and other leaders and spearheaded the effort to dedicate a memorial at the Belzec camp in Poland, where his mother died...
...This lack of a big-studio pedigreed film makes predicting the winners a daunting task. No Country may be a masterpiece, but it's a cold-blooded one, perhaps too much a splatter fest and a museum piece for Oscar voters. There Will Be Blood has packed them in at a relatively few theaters since its Christmas day opening; as it rolls out for wider release, will it pick up steam or antagonize the mass audience? Even if Blood doesn't cop the top prize, as I uneasily predicted, it will win Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor award over...