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...scale lends power and mystery. Dead Troops Talk is a fantasy of Russian soldiers massacred in Afghanistan in 1986 who have come back to life on the gray rocky roadway where they died. In an enormous tableau--the picture is 7 1/2 ft. tall and almost 14 ft. wide--they awaken to discover their own mangled flesh in shock, grief, sleepy-eyed indifference and also wild-eyed amusement...
...surface, but on the surface of the polished plastic—there’s a tiny speck of paint.” The paint is almost impossible to see; as Khandekar points out, it is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.These specks drew world-wide attention on Jan. 29 of this year, when Khandekar, Fogg Associate Curator of Modern Art Harry Cooper, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art released a report declaring that some of the samples contain pigments that...
...movie theater near you.Introducing Randy Olson, a 1984 graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour in honor of Darwin Day. Olson is the kind of guy who banters about embryology over a hand of poker, and includes his mother, Muffy Moose, in a documentary about evolution versus intelligent design.Olson’s documentary is a hybrid of these two ways...
...tuition by freezing tuition and fees at 2006 levels at all its schools. At the College, this means holding the line at $33,709, with total charges of $43,655. The current annual rate of inflation, according to the most recent CPI, is 3.17 percent. A University-wide freeze on tuition and fees would cost roughly $15 to $20 million, which translates into less than one-half of one percent of last year’s $3.7 billion growth in the endowment...
...Some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been critical of the expansion, questioning the value of the newly created posts. But Hyman and his staff have said this growth is due in large part to new responsibilities—such as the Allston expansion and University-wide diversity and science initiatives—that have fallen under the provost’s purview...