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...have never seen these works before.” According to Netzer, the paintings will be labeled as “problems for study.” The authenticity of Pollock’s paintings has more than scholarly significance. An undisputed painting by the famed American abstract expressionist, “No. 5, 1948,” recently sold for $140 million, making it the world’s most expensive masterpiece. The Harvard investigation was a collaboration between Harry Cooper, a curator of modern art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum; Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation...
...these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book for people who dress to thrill...
...last year Musgrave taught at Harvard—Poterba audited Musgrave’s graduate course, co-taught with Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61.“He didn’t just study the tax system or government policies in an abstract classroom, or in a theoretical way. He studied these questions because he believed they were incredibly important in making the lives of individual citizens better,” Poterba said.The ground-breaking “Musgrave trichotomy” identified three separate roles of government—redistributing income, allocating resources...
These cranial wrestling matches could be televised. As people ponder a moral dilemma, brain scans show changing activity levels in a part of the brain linked to abstract reasoning and cognitive control. In brains that take the utilitarian path, this part strengthens until dominant; in brains that refuse to kill one innocent to save many, it weakens until emotion...
Modern scientists have done a far better job of things, dividing the brain into multiple, discrete regions with satisfyingly technical names--hypothalamus, caudate nucleus, neocortex--and mapping particular functions to particular sites. Here lives abstract thought; here lives creativity; here is emotion; here is speech. But what about here and here and here and here--all the countless places and ways the brain continues to baffle us? Here still be dragons...