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...with shadows, “we learn what it means to not look at something directly and feel it too.”When working in New Orleans, Chan wasn’t satisfied with simply putting on a performance. He wanted to revive the damaged communities through art. In collaboration with the New York public art group Creative Time and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Chan established a network of art institutions that could outlive the “Godot” production itself. He moved to New Orleans for the entire fall semester in order to build...
...gone on. But starting from then, he began to paint quite differently.” And soon enough, he is brushing shoulders with the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, exhibiting his work in the Musée d’Orsay and the Museum of Modern Art. When Zollner meets him, all Kaminski lacks is a biography that will solidify his reputation as an artist with lasting significance, hopefully disproving Kaminski’s own fatalistic prediction that “first one’s unknown, then one’s famous, then one?...
...years, Le Corbusier, a major modernist architect of the twentieth century, was admired exclusively for his art, biographer Nicholas Fox Weber said last night. But many overlooked his personality in favor of his achievements, he added, addressing a small crowd at the Carpenter Center, the sole building in the U.S. designed by the Swiss native. Sharing anecdotes from the artist’s life, Weber, the author of a newly released biography, sought to introduce the man who was known as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris before his career took off. “Getting to know...
...much younger Trisha Brown hovers above a white, horizontal canvas. Her hands are covered with blue gloves and paint, and her feet are smeared with charcoal; her whole body is employed in drawing as she moves on all fours. The Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts falls silent as the contemporary dancer stops talking about her choreography for the opera “Carmen” and turns towards the image of herself defying countless classical definitions of visual art and dance. “I nabbed the gloves from intensive care at Fort Myers hospital...
Strings extend across the Adams Art Space like lasers, both encouraging exploration of the space and prohibiting it. These boundaries present the artistic goals of Trevor J. Martin ’10 in his two-room exhibition “through/within/without”: to examine and problematize one’s physical and emotional situation. Martin began studying art in high school, where he experimented with painting and digital media. In the fall of his freshman year at Harvard, he dove into the arts scene, contributing to a show for a class in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department...