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...first became superintendent. Livingston noted that despite Ketelhohn’s illness in the months before his death, he still enthusiastically participated in many of his favorite activities around Cabot. Livingston remembers Ketelhohn’s dedication to the annual Cabot House musical, which she directs. An avid visual artist and graduate of New York’s High School of Music and Art, Ketelhohn had long designed sets for the shows and insisted on taking part in this semester’s production of “Grease.” “Even though he was very...
Holl has long simmered on the edge of superstardom. Until now, he was best known for a handful of highly regarded projects: a superb little church in Seattle, a much talked-about museum in Helsinki. But his tough-minded aesthetic positions have sometimes worked against him. Last year the artist Richard Tuttle and his wife aired complaints in the New York Times about a guesthouse Holl had designed for them. Then last fall Holl exited a Denver courthouse project after a series of disagreements. So the Bloch building is not just a triumph; it's a timely one. Those five...
...this is not mere attention to visual and behavioral detail; it is a consummate film artist's weaving of a world and its inhabitants. Reygadas' genius is to sanctify each moment -the milking of cows and harvesting of grain, the children being washed in a stream, a sweetly illicit kiss in the woods -so that, when melodrama intrudes, it will have the power of inevitable tragedy...
...hipster Jedis - yes they exist - there was an exhibit called "The Vader Project," where 75 artists, including Paul Frank, Marc Ecko and a guy who calls himself Sucklord, customized Darth Vader helmets. The artists created a Statue of Liberty Vader, a Full Metal Vader with camo theme, a hip-hop Vader with a jewel encrusted grill and a black fleece Vader with an exposed pink fleece brain. Sucklord, a New York City artist who declines to share his "government name," used his helmet to construct a diorama of Tatooine, the desert planet that is the setting for most...
...world. "I don't go to scenes," he says. "I don't go to openings.") He's a native of San Francisco, the child of a Spanish-born shipyard worker and a Jewish mother who took an early interest in her son's talent as an artist. "To compete with my older brother for my parents' affections, I would draw all the time as a boy," he says. "After about the third grade, my mother started taking me to museums and introducing me as her son the artist. She also told my older brother he was going to become...