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Andy Warhol infamously said, “Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” By now Warhol has contradicted his own statement: his celebrity—and more importantly his artistic influence—has lasted for over 50 years.To commemorate what would have been his 80th year, and to help dismantle common simplifications of Warhol’s work, Harvard art professor Benjamin Buchloh has organized the conference “Andy, 80? Considering the Warhol Legacies on His 80th Birthday” to take place today and tomorrow in the Sackler Auditorium. The conference will...
...Artist Fiona Tan thinks of herself as an “image-maker.” In “Kingdom of Shadows,” Tan’s 2001 short film presented last Sunday night at the Carpenter Center, she explores how the proliferation of images in the modern world—namely through photographs—changes our perception of them. Interviews with collectors and artists guide an exploration of our relationship with photographs—a relationship that, to Tan, “can never be settled”. The screening followed up on a lecture?...
...Karsh’s strikingly beautiful and expressive black and white portraiture, though it also delves in bits and pieces into both his early work and images outside the portrait milieu. Though these digressions from Karsh’s most famous pieces help elucidate the character of the artist, they cannot compare to the power, intensity, and soulfulness of his signature portraits, which form the bulk of the exhibit.All four walls of the vast room that houses the collection are lined by photograph upon photograph of Karsh portraits. What is amazing about all of these images is not only...
...proper record stores. In fact, I think the truth is that a great many people like good music—it’s just that they’re sometimes not willing to search for it, or aren’t sure where to find it.Mixtape creators, mashup artists, and DJs, then, can be thought of as musical mediums, the best of whom dabble in necromancy, bringing the spirit of long-forgotten tracks to life. And it is this point which perhaps deserves most attention—that the best of these channelers really...
...what was started could not be undone. By 1996, thanks to lobbying by conservative groups like the American Family Association and the new Republican Congress’s mantra of “fiscal responsibility,” the NEA saw its budget slashed by almost 40 percent. Individual artist grants were gone, as was general funding to arts organizations. Ultraconservatives won. Welcome...