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Ongoing through June 30. “Life is a Catwalk (La Vida es una Pasarela),” featuring the work of Colombian artist Jaime Ávila. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 61 Kirkland Street. Free...
...movie begins in present-day Paris, where Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) has spent the past 30 years working as an artist. However, as he reflects upon his son’s 13th birthday his thoughts drift back to his own 13th birthday and the life-changing events that preceded it. Before we know it, the film whisks us back to New York City’s Greenwich Village...
...been 27 years since an artist spoke at Commencement, and 54 years since anyone with a background in professional theater has mounted the podium. Yet those who might protest that Lithgow does not measure up recognition-wise to past speakers have very selective memories. For every Kofi Annan, there have been Vaclav Havels and Gro Brundtlands, president of the Czech Republic and prime minister of Norway, respectively. Compared to these lesser-known statesmen, the name John Lithgow probably rings many more bells...
...that showed Chevy vans floating in clouds and Norelco shavers zipping around a racetrack; television network logos replete with spinning globes and sparkling call letters; scientific simulations displaying molecules at magnifications no microscope could achieve; and animal, vegetable and mineral objects more realistically portrayed than ever before. Says Computer Artist William Reeves of Lucasfilm, who created the image of windblown grass he calls Blowin' in the Wind: "I'm not going to claim it's just like nature, but I'm pushing in that direction...
Although the results may resemble photographs or surrealistic paintings, the methods used require more mathematics than artistry. A computer artist must consider every aspect of what he wants his finished work to be and translate it into a numerical representation that the machine can comprehend...