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...only audience member at Sanders who didn’t seem to appreciate Miller’s ingenuity was James Otis, Class of 1743, whose austere white marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...
...work is finished with a cracked white glaze; the rest is dark and partially metallic, a result of the wood-firing technique Barnard sometimes uses. An assortment ranging from small white teacups to huge cracked plates is spread out on stands and shelves in the gallery. Multimedia artist Kelly Spalding shares the show, and her brightly striped canvases hang above the pottery...
...titanic waves of hype cresting over M.I.A.’s long-awaited debut album have created one of the finer ironies in recent memory: So much music-crit ink and bloggy bits have been lavished on Maya Arulpragasam—an artist who studiously, hyperactively, sublimely avoids cliché—that it’s nearly impossible to write about her without indulging in a few already-saids...
...ethno-cultural uncertainty, Mallozzi also found herself perplexed by her prospects as an undergraduate artist at Harvard. She initially had no intention of being a VES concentrator at Harvard...
Every aspiring filmmaker, journalist, or artist at Harvard can learn a lot from this incident: Mallozzi doesn’t get her inspiration from greedy dreams for multibillion-dollar box-office success or from pretentious notions of artistic purity. Both Mallozzi and her work are grounded in a relentless commitment to difficult truths and simple human dignity...