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...that follows, it a bit too, well, all-purpose. But it serves. The play was inspired by the paintings of Norman Rockwell and the work of the avant-garde installation artist Jason Rhoades, and it's a witty, sometimes mystifying, often riveting mishmash of classic Americana and anarchic performance art. It opens with a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," then slides into a series of Rockwellian scenes: a Thanksgiving dinner; a high school couple on a first date, accompanied by a recorded 1950s lesson in dating etiquette. In between, the actors create rickety constructions...
...theme in his 1986 musical “Into the Woods,” but he also incorporated comedy, nuance, and innovative new plots beyond “what happens after happily ever after” to create an imaginative musical drama. For Schwitters, whose multivalent creative drive yielded art across the spectrum of media—from painting to collage to sculpture—perhaps the fairy tale simply wasn’t his most interesting or effective venture.As it is, some of the stories read like thinly-veiled editorials, with grotesque characters set in realistic places and situations...
...psychological interior of his controversial protagonist. “This sort of ‘let’s root for this guy’ in movies as if it were a baseball game has always struck me as a kind of truly low-brow notion of what art is supposed to be,” Toback says. “What happens with the most interesting works of art, I think, is that you start with a sense of deception, of half-knowledge, preferably with the deck stacked against your protagonist, and then in the course of whatever you?...
...cultural and intellectual distinctions as casually as a subtle aroma of cologne.” The Sergei Diaghilev in question was a connoisseur extraordinaire and director of the famed Ballets Russes, a troupe that emerged in Europe in 1909 and proceeded to change the realm of culture and art around the entire globe forever. This year, its centennial is being celebrated everywhere from Moscow, Hamburg, Stockholm, Canberra, and Paris to the Boston area. From April 15 through 17, Harvard will host a three-day Ballets Russes Symposium comprised of an exhibition of rare documents and art at the Pusey Library...
Last Saturday, the Institute of Contemporary Art presented “Design as Social Agent,” a series of talks and discussions led by notable graphic designers that identified this profession as being at the crossroads of art, society, politics, and the law. Inspired by the work of artist Shepard Fairey—best known for his “Hope” poster featuring President Obama—the day-long lecture series provided historical, theoretical, and practical insights into the relationship between design and society. The lectures ranged in subject matter, from the ways in which...