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Artist Ellsworth Kelly is known for his exuberance with color. The title of one of his more famous canvasses, Blue Green Yellow Orange Red, says as much. Instead of containing dense, Impressionist detail, his paintings are almost austerely abstract. In Blue, a bright solid shape stands confidently against a white background, setting off a contrast between the hues...
...brightest people I’ve ever known, and one of the sweetest,” she says. Despite his academic enthusiasm, she says she doesn’t recall much talk about life after college. “I remember him being more of an abstract thinker. He wasn’t real career-oriented...
...Beacon consisted of nothing but that sort of thing, a long visit would feel like being swatted all day with the complete works of Hegel. But Dia also collects much juicier artists. John Chamberlain's hunks of automobile metal, cut and welded, crushed and painted, build multicolored bridges between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Not far from his galleries, there's a mini-show of Agnes Martin's delectable paintings, broad washes of color over a rectangular gridwork of lines drawn with a slightly trembling pencil. Something sings across those shivering wires. Dia also has the space to present some...
...using Ono's best source material. Unlike recent Cher and Madonna dance tracks, which play up the robotic inauthenticity of the vocals for camp value, the Ice DJs seem to have genuine affection for Ono's dramatic howls. The Danny Tenaglia Walked Across the Lake Mix cleverly elongates her abstract vocal--"I gave you my knife, you gave me my life/Like a gush of wind in my hair"--until Ono sounds every bit like the grieving widow she is. The Pet Shop Boys' Radio Mix builds tension around a pop rhythm so magnificently that there's nothing--save the perversity...
...coincidence, then, that the biggest critic of grade inflation at Harvard is an alumnus-turned-professor. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is a right-wing maverick who loves causing a stir. Mansfield’s philosophy revolves around an abstract concept of fairness, and he decided last fall that Gov 97a—a requirement for all government concentrators—would be graded such that no more than one fifth of students received...