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...band that takes itself too seriously, consider the infectious “Halfway Home,” the wisely-chosen album opener. An ominous drum rhythm reminiscent of Joy Division is juxtaposed with carefree doo-wops, and the effect resonates in such a way that even the most pretentious art house snob can’t resist the temptation to dance. The song’s light-hearted but haunting at the same time...
...Faculty Exhibit at the Carpenter Center, on display through October 23, combines digitally altered stills, free-standing sculptures, dark animations, and an interpretation of a 1976 film. It is, in the words of special projects manager Tracy Blanchard, a show that “contemplates the intersections between contemporary art and contemporary technologies to address contemporary concerns...
...piece of plywood with enormously huge knots, and I thought they were really funny,” she says. “I thought they looked like huge breasts and huge cartoon eyes.” Davis, who teaches at both Bard College and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, moved forward with the humorous sculpture by contemplating how one contextualizes imagery. “Whatever frame you use changes the image,” she says...
While Halpern’s art was influenced by contemporary concerns from the outset and Davis says that her sculpture only reflected modern day issues, Biggers found inspiration in the 1976 film “Network,” a movie that portrays the pursuit of power in American television, and from which he remade three scenes...
Diane M. Paulus ’87 wears a navy blue suit to her office, but not without a thick silver bracelet spiraled around her wrist. The flashy piece of jewelry set against the somber hue of her skirt and jacket hints at the tension between the art and business sides of drama, a tension Paulus negotiates daily as the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre. “The primary mission of the A.R.T. is to advance the art of theater,” says Robert Brustein, the A.R.T.’s co-founder. And since...