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...Hughes goes back through her painful past to delve into the family history. (In the Third Year entry, Hughes writes, "My mother, head in oven, died/ And me, already dead inside/ I was an empty tin/ Where nothing rattled in.") In addition, Hughes spent five years painting an abstract landscape of her life, 4 ft. high and 225 ft. long in 45 panels, which complements the poetry. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hughes in an exclusive American interview from Hughes' home in Wales, where she lives with her husband, Hungarian-born painter Laszlo Lukacs...
...adding a level of surreality—albeit plot-mandated surreality—to an otherwise fairly straightforward set. The other notable aspect of the set, which was designed by Courtney E. Thompson ’09 and suggests an apartment with a few pieces of furniture, is an abstract hanging in the back like fragmented rock, a touch that is appropriately in keeping with the increasingly broken family of the play...
...tall. "First off, you have to build a dinosaur. It has to be big. It has to look like a dinosaur. It has to be constructed throughout the play. It has to be at various stages of completion throughout the play. At times, we were going to be this abstract dinosaur that was going to be this mountain of crap that was heaped up in the middle of the set. And then we got less abstract; some were going to be bones, and some weren’t." For Thompson, inspiration from home helped her solve the initial challenge...
...Miraculously (as it seemed at first), people would help. Far from averting their gaze or palming me off, interviewees would e-mail me extra information, share anecdotes, call me back to check details. They were often funny and invariably nice. No longer an abstract phobia, strangers were an extracurricular...
...instructing the viewer to insert his or her finger into a hole in order to discover what hidden mysteries are lurking inside.“Multiple Strategies” highlights the divisions and unintentional collaborations between the works of artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) and those of the abstract “Fluxus” movement, which included Ay-O and was led by George Maciunas (1931-1978).Unlike Timberlake’s ballad about phalluses in boxes, however, this exhibition operates on multiple levels, and succeeds in teasing out the deep connections that run through seemingly disparate artistic ideologies.MULTIPLE...