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...summer of 2005 for a magazine that didn't come out until May 2007.) "When I asked to attend a focus group, they suggested not New York - in the same building - but Chicago," says another former staffer. "Joanne stayed at the Four Seasons. And two people from the art department turned their San Francisco focus-group trip into a multiday minivacation at company expense...
While Professor Jennifer L. Roberts works with artifacts hundreds of years old, she’s in no danger of gathering moss herself. As the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, specializing in American art from the colonial age to modernism, she constantly strives to enliven her subject, locating art objects in vibrant contexts. “It’s important for students to understand that art objects are very dense objects, just as dense as a novel or scientific treatise,” says Roberts. “These are real historical documents...
...interested in the question of cultural mixing, which she explores through her research on modern British history and British imperialism. Her first book, “Edge of Empire,” examines how the British and French expanded in India and the Middle East through the lives of art collectors. “I felt like they were on the frontiers of cultural exchange,” Jasanoff explains. This ability to analyze history through unique perspectives and narratives has garnered Jasanoff great respect. “She breaks boundaries between national histories and between European countries and their...
...just as animated and down-to-earth. “I think she’s very inspiring. She never gets impatient with anybody and she’s always smiling,” Feifei Yi ’12 says, who took Chinese 187: “Art and Violence in the Cultural Revolution” with Tian last fall...
...Center, $30 online 2. From the Venetian Lagoon to the Bay State: Go see the MFA’s current special exhibition! “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice” gathers an impressive collection from the Most Serene Republic and highlights the drama behind the art and the conservation behind the exhibit. Ongoing, The Museum of Fine Arts, $23 with student ID 3. Are you a member of “Fight Club”? Don’t tell us! (Keep rules 1 and 2, space monkey.) Instead go meet Chuck Palahniuk, the author behind...