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Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne will take the stage later this month as the 2007 Artist of the Year during the 22nd annual Cultural Rhythms festival, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations announced Friday afternoon...
...world, definitions can be crucial. And for much of his near-40-year career, George Gittoes has been tagged a war artist, a definition which is both true and false. While the 57-year-old Australian has covered many of the world's hot-button conflicts since Vietnam, he hasn't always been invited, and unlike most official war artists, he hasn't confined his medium to paint and pencil. Famously, he was one of the few to witness the Kibeho massacre in Rwanda, camera in hand, and more recently Gittoes has turned to music video and anime to capture...
...inspired by the visiting modernist art critic Clement Greenberg, traveled to New York in 1968. He studied with the social-realist painter Joe Delaney, and on returning to Sydney the following year, sought to put Delaney's civic-minded ideals to work in the Yellow House, the now legendary artist-run space Gittoes helped establish in 1970 with Martin Sharp. He would leave after two years, but the Yellow House set the scene for his art. Using any medium at his disposal, and world events as his palette, Gittoes' work speaks of the cosmic interconnectedness of things...
...have portrayed a less particular and more generalized kind of horror. His Exhausted Still Walking, 2006, gives the impression of war as a spiraling, replicating beast. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gittoes has been meeting with Korean animators to help turn his diaries into a graphic novel and feature film. The artist sees this as all part of a larger multimedia project, to be called Night Vision. It was while traveling with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia 14 years ago that Gittoes tried on his first pair of night-vision goggles-complaining in his diary that "they turn the night into...
...arts education, it settled on the novel idea that liberal arts should teach “ways of learning.” This groundbreaking system envisioned that every student could be a mini-scientist, a mini-philosopher, and in the case of Literature and Arts C, a mini-starving artist. It was the Golden Age for education, and the Core Curriculum was welcomed in the streets as a liberator. Soon, order and happiness grew in the area as the oil flowed to the west from the democratic light of the Middle East?...