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...Libertine. Platinum is the new Marie-Antoinette. Leather is the new luxury. Veiling is the new seduction. Dior is the new Erotica.” Written on a wall in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), designer John Galliano’s words sound more like one of Will Ferrell’s lines in “Zoolander” than an artistic credo.But Galliano’s words—shown next to his spring 2006 haute couture collection for iconic fashion house Christian Dior—are displayed with sober seriousness...
...holds the exhibit’s 52 photographs could easily be part of one. But in order to catch the collection of works by Alex MacLean, Anne Whiston Spirn, and Camilo José Vergara, students have to walk past the Fogg and the Sackler and head to the Harvard Museum of Natural History instead. The reward for the journey? A new awareness of natural phonomena one might never notice if these images weren’t so exquisitely captured, mounted, and brought together. After seeing Alex MacLean’s aerial shots, I was motivated to whip out my Nikon...
...considerate presentation of the subject is enhanced by an equally tasteful gallery design that highlights the photography in simple, restrained elegance. This moderation is especially commendable in light of the Peabody’s previous photography exhibit, “Reconfiguring Korea,” which turned the museum gallery into a lime-green pagoda for seven months earlier this year. Instead, Exhibit Designer Sam Tager and Bubriski provide informative placards and Gardner quotations without cluttering the gallery or distracting from the photographs.Rockefeller’s photographs provide a refreshing antidote to the walls of the Fogg Museum, which...
...While Power and Stanton both see a mounting danger of widespread genocide in Iraq, there is certainly not consensus on the threat. Other human rights organizations, like the Committee on Conscience at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the International Crisis Group, do not see the conditions for genocide developing. Human Rights Watch, which is particularly restrictive in what it calls genocide, says it believes Iraq is not headed in that direction. Joost Hiltermann, who covers Iraq for the International Crisis Group, says that the biggest impediment to full-blown genocide is the fact that there are divisions between...
...after the debut, a lack of security guards forced the new galleries to close. Since then, only members have had viewing privileges. "People would accuse us of being élitist and denying ordinary citizens the right to see these works," says Mercedes González de Amezua, the museum's curator. "But every one us of here wanted them open to the public." They got their wish. When another Madrid museum closed this fall for renovations, the Academy borrowed its guards. To celebrate, the San Fernando has reopened the third floor, and mounted a special exhibit of paintings, sculptures...