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...same with Bontecou, who produced some of the gravest, most tough-minded and even belligerent art of the 1960s. Three-dimensional wall pieces, they were constructed by attaching strips of rough canvas to welded metal frameworks, using bristling threads of thin wire. Always featuring one or more mute, sinister holes, the wall pieces conflated all kinds of mysteries and anxieties--about the human body, the primal instincts, the state of the world, the universe itself--into enigmas that shoot forward like field cannons. You don't just stand in front of something like Untitled from 1966. You bob and weave...
Rosenberg and Karabell read excerpts from their book Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes, a compilation of transcripts of the presidents’ conversations during their dealings with racial injustice in 1960s America. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
...unconventional nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...
Hayden, a former civil rights advocate and leader of student protests in the 1960s, is a fellow at the Institute of Politics this semester...
...generation has been skipped over and forgotten," says Meda Mladek, a Czech-American art collector who founded the Museum Kampa. Located in a beautifully restored mill house on the Vltava River, the museum features a collection of 150 works by 50 artists who worked in Central Europe between the 1960s and the 1980s. Big names like Jirí Kolár and Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz are here, but the most riveting displays are by lesser-known artists. Especially imposing is Gebauer's Correct Side of the Slaughter-House, a Grim Reaper-like figure that mimics Lenin's official portraits...