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...materials gathered for Visible represent an exceptional resource at Harvard. Prior to this project, there was hardly any documentation or criticism on visual art by "lesbian artists" available for researchers. The financial sponsors and especially Women's Studies and Open Gate: A Fund for Gay and Lesbian Life at Harvard, supported this project because they understood that Visible (slide-show, soundtrack, display of printed works, discussion groups, and eventual archive) would make a lasting contribution toward an understanding of the various political goals of those who in all their diversity identify themselves as "lesbian artists...
Elegant. Hauntingly beautiful. The sets for Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken, based on an original English translation by American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brustein, confirm post-modern director Robert Wilson as a visual artist of the first order. The scenery, designed by Wilson and John Conklin, is minimalist yet loses nothing in sumptuousness or effect...
Unlike the visual arts or even the humanities, drama resists post-modern transformation. The means of conveying one's message or experience are not immaterial objects, but living, thinking human beings. We expect them to act like such because we are, for better or for worse, only able to learn from them when we can envision ourselves in their place. When We Dead Awaken fails to make this fundamental connection...
Consider the case of Eileen Carlton, 65, of Danvers, Mass., who had a stroke five years ago and lost almost all ability to speak. Today, working with a visual-communications computer program designed by linguists at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Carlton uses symbols to construct sentences, so that she can communicate with her family and friends. "This has opened a whole new world to her," says her son Bill, 39. "Writing is too complicated for her, but she knows what she wants to say. So instead of spending the rest of her life playing charades, she uses symbols...
...Richardson rightly argues, was one of Picasso's fetishes), his belief in the magic power of images, his emotional cannibalism, his charisma and sardonic wit. Richardson shows how these developed in the young Picasso while debunking such legends as the notion that he drew like a child prodigy, a visual Mozart...