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...Science Center C, what sprung to mind was not skeletal systems or plate tectonics, but how my roommate created an aggressively lewd anagram to remember therapods. But once upon a time, science was my passion. In grade school, I was fascinated by lab experiments, class field trips to the Museum of Natural History, and, most of all, my parents’ jobs. Ironically, I also happened to memorize a lot of facts about dinosaurs.My Halloween costume was not only easy to make and reproduce year after year. Having been raised on the sound of people greeting my parents...
...margins of society ever had a portraitist, it was Diane Arbus. The New York-born photographer produced some of the most memorable portraits ever made before her suicide in 1971, and the best have been gathered for a major retrospective of her work at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (www.vam.ac.uk), showing between now and next January. Her most iconic images are present...
...stood in the Naumberg room of the Fogg Art Museum this May, next to a portrait of his likeness that now graces the walls of Harvard University, Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans seemed a long way from his childhood home.The son of two sharecroppers who had six years of education between them, Evans was orphaned by the age of 16. But his parents’ untimely deaths did not prevent them from inspiring their seven children with a message that would send them on paths to great success.For more than 35 years, Evans has filled a wide range...
...these images]," she says. "It both reveals Victorian art as not as white as we imagine, but also Victorian society as not as white as we imagine." The fruits of Marsh's research are on display at Manchester Art Gallery until Jan. 8, and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Jan. 28-April 2). As well as paintings, there are cartoons, ads and photographs of characters like Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a captive from Dahomey who became the Queen's godchild. Many of the images were designed to serve a purpose: to moralize, to glorify the empire or even...
...only one moving into galleries. Swoon, 27, makes intricate figurative images that she wheat-pastes to walls. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art acquired six of her pieces this past summer. "We were astounded," says Deborah Wye, chief curator of MOMA's department of prints. "She was using very traditional printmaking techniques--woodcut and linoleum--that she had infused with this contemporary spirit." It's a spirit she takes from the street. And one she leaves behind there...