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...This site is like bathroom stall doors for the twenty-first century,” someone writes at BoredAtLamont.com, a newish social message board site where students post anonymously. Indeed, the site features a broad spectrum of comments: the mundane, the intellectual, the random, the emotional, but mostly the patently offensive. BoredAtLamont is one of nine “Bored At” Web sites, the first of which was started this February by 2006 Columbia graduate Jonathan R. Pappas. But why subject library dwellers to the rants of others? “It was a little bit of being...
...film's directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, realize Michael Le Sieur's script in a distinctly unmerry way. About halfway through it begins to dawn on you that this is essentially another film in the newish tradition of the unfunny comedy (The Break-Up is another recent example). Or perhaps we should say that it is comedy only because that's the default setting for this kind of movie in the marketing department's computers. Hey, we got a funny guy and a presumptively funny situation, so it must be a laff riot. Or, at least, something we can sell...
...Canberra's newish national museum has an eclectic permanent collection, mixing exhibits that tell bits of the story so far. There are galleries devoted to indigenous peoples, British settlement, immigration, and 1960s suburbia - where you will find a display recreating the kitchen-and-backyard idyll that nurtured the baby boomers. Looming large in this time capsule is a petrol-powered, rotary-engine Victa lawnmower and, tucked inside a cupboard, a Sunbeam Mixmaster. The two products speak of a time of rising prosperity in which Australians aspired to a house on a quarter-acre block, children played in the backyard after...
Those priorities do not include the arts. Which does not mean a scorn for the arts or a cynical willingness to sell them short. But curiously, it seems to me, the very climate we’re in now with a new or newish president, provost, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean, dean of Harvard College and head of the Office for the Arts; with the review of undergraduate education and with the ongoing effort to figure out what to do with Allston makes this a pivotal time for Harvard arts advocacy...
With a few exceptions (Roman busts, Fayumic coffin likenesses), portraiture in art's long span is quite a new--well, newish--form. It really gets under way in 15th century Italy. It came with problems, though. Portraiture as we know it is the art of making recognizable likenesses of individuals. But not all Renaissance portraits are about verisimilitude, and even when they seem to be, their truth can't be tested because usually there are no other images of the same person to test it against...