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...Harvard, Sara E. Jobin ’91 spoke with a group of students over lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna to campus each semester. Jobin—who is also this year’s Clifton Visiting Artist, a position given by the Office for the Arts and reserved for a young female artist—talked about her professional life and based discussion on students’ questions. Jobin arrived at Harvard as a 16-year-old and became one of the first students to concentrate in women?...
...pieces from previous shows, including some of Bailey’s finest Southwestern jewelry, baskets, ceramics, and rugs. Bailey, a native of New Mexico, has collected and promoted Native American art for the last fifty years. Bailey’s traveling show is designed to help give Native American artists national exposure. In an interview Friday, Bailey said her road trips enable these Native American artists to continue doing what they love. As a young girl, Bailey said, someone told her that buying turquoise is like “owning a piece of the blue...
...ease, however, by the precedent set by perhaps the most famous work to date of artist Xu Bing called “Book From the Sky” or “Book From Heaven.” In one of the first examples of installation art in China, Xu created volumes of scrolls containing approximately 4,000 invented Chinese characters, which were then hand-cut onto wooden print blocks. Each character appears to the viewer as if a real word, with Chinese visitors to the installation noting that their first impression of the project was that many...
...investigation of her family history. A 2007 winner of Best Documentary Film at the Berlin Film Festival and the New York Loves Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, “A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory” brings light to an artist whose history was until recently engulfed by, as Robinson puts it, “the giant Warhol myth...
...looked up. Felicity could not have explained why, but she pitied him.“Do you want to join us this afternoon?” asked Felicity. “Signore Filippo and I are attending an exhibit by one of our most talented countrymen. Really, a true artist.”“It is I who am an artist!” said Frederick disdainfully. “I can only hope this exhibition will make you more able to appreciate my talents.”“Ehh...but surely we canna each find...