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Fastidious and intelligent, Richter's art looks unblinkingly at the world through pre-existing images--amateur and police photos, news clippings and the like--that have no glamour, that intend to sell nothing (unlike American Pop Art) and that are, in effect, the very scurf and dandruff of common life. At the same time they are very German, being pure vernacular. Like most photo-derived art, Richter's reproduces poorly. He has not shown much in the U.S. He is not about lapel-grabbing fictions of urgency; in fact his work, when first seen, looks quite eerily cold...
...cloth over it. It looks like memory trying to be recaptured, wavering up to meet us through layers of consciousness and efforts of repression. But it is not in any real sense "expressive." Richter is the man who notoriously said he could find more interest in the dumbest amateur snapshot than in the finest Cezanne. This with a straight face...
Students have also taken the initiative to form support organizations for musicians who don’t inherently fit into the orchestral unit. The Harvard Piano Society provides a meeting forum for amateur and serious pianists and organizes master classes and recitals. They often provide much-needed accompanists for many productions and pairs duets. Founder of the Harvard Piano Society Aaron Miller ’02 said, “We saw a need for greater performance opportunity for Harvard pianists, because the only thing available before were the concerto competitions.” Since founding the organization last year...
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones (May 16): So the title sounds like an amateur B-grade horror movie and sure, Jar Jar Binks makes his return as the most annoying character ever captured on celluloid, but nothing could deter die-hard fans from this latest installment in George Lucas’ Star Wars saga. Luke is still but a glint in his father’s eye as Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen pursue their ill-fated love affair between battles with Jedi Rebel Dooku and his band of cloned droids. Will the “force?...
...time, professional athletes did not masquerade as amateurs. In 1906, the NCAA bylaws defined amateur competition as preventing “the offering of inducements to players to enter colleges or universities because of their athletic abilities or supporting or maintaining players while students on account of their athletic abilities, either by athletic organizations, individual alumni, or otherwise, directly or indirectly.” Not only does Harvard remunerate their athletic recruits with one of the best educations in the world but also with the benefits a Harvard degree confers—something the money of hundreds of athletics scholarship...