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Alexa P. Summer ’06 is going to be a high-powered lawyer in New York. In her loft downtown, she’s going to have huge vistas of abstract art lining the walls, floor to ceiling, and she’ll casually hold a martini glass as she points out artistic nuances to guests at cocktail parties. She’ll be living the part of Posh Spice, whom she played impeccably this past Halloween...
...entertaining--sometimes too hard, as when he writes of Prussia's ruling family, "The Hohenzollerns were a funny bunch," or when, in the midst of explaining Pythagorean numbers and the theory of affections in music, he assures the reader defensively, "This will be over soon." Even the most abstract passages, though, are warmed by his obvious reverence for Bach, whose music he has been playing on the piano since he was a child...
...Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, the collectors, to purchase their first piece in the 1960s––a scroll by Jiun Onko from the 18th century, which hangs in the exhibition––was its similarity to the aesthetic of modern art, especially abstract expressionism. This is the connection that permits a non-specialist to even approach the doors of the exhibition. “Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection” will be open at the Sackler until mid-April...
Ongoing through March 2. Beyond the Surface II: A Selection of Abstract Paintings by Suzanne Washington. Holyoke Center Exhibition Space, Holyoke Center Arcade. Free...
Ongoing through March 2. “Beyond the Surface II: A Selection of Abstract Paintings by Suzanne Washington.” Holyoke Center Exhibition Space, Holyoke Center Arcade. Free...