Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department is also growing in both size and scope. While the department is currently searching for specialists in the field of visual art, DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Nathan Huggins, who came to Harvard in 1980, stresses the irreduceable importance of history and literature in Afro-American studies, both of which the department offers several courses...
...film obliquely raises questions of art and society, but at its heart, Prick Up Your Ears is the story of two intriguing men and their problematic relations. The brilliant performances by Gary Oldman as the randy playwright and Alfred Molina as the whining Halliwell necessarily make the film, because Bennett and Frears have all but ignored the charged times in which the Orton story unfolded. Although painstaking detail masterfully recreates the setting of the story, the filmmakers have largely eschewed an attempt to depict the explosive social scene of 1960s London...
Robert Hughes provides the most informative account to date of the Sistine Chapel-cleaning controversy ((ART, April 27)). Regrettably, the before and after photographs accompanying the article are misleading. If the conserved fresco really looked like TIME's illustration, the critics would be right. However, the cleaned fresco is not flat and washed out but fully modeled and richly colored...
...Art History, Reed College...
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph Hoglund...