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...Polynesian reveries. But the link between them is direct. In 1889, Vuillard joined a band of fellow art students who called themselves Les Nabis - "prophets" in Hebrew and Arabic. Their credo was "the simplification of form and the exaltation of color," and their guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris. The lineup includes Botticelli at the Musée du Luxembourg, Bazille at the Musée Marmottan Monet, and a huge Jean Cocteau retrospective...
...small enough that you could go up and shake the hand of the artist at the end,” said Dominic C. Deleon ’04. “It made a link between these famous artists and the common people.” Deleon did more than just shake hands: at a Cody ChestnuTT gig, he got up onstage and rapped and sang with ChestnuTT...
Subtitled The Influence of Cartoons in Contempary Art, this exhibit at the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) examines three generations of popular contemporary artists who have used the images and techniques of cartoons to explore challenging contemporary issues. 2003 ICA Artist Prize winner Douglas R. Weathersby creates site-specific installations that use dust and detritus to meditate on the creative potential of waste and cleanliness, order and disorder. Runs through January 4. $5 students, free after 5 p.m. on Thursday. Boston ICA, 955 Boylston Street...
...much-hyped tour features interactive political forums led by infamous spoken-word artist Saul Williams and the even more infamous Larry Flynt, former publisher of Hustler. Concerts will be given by radical hip-hop activists Dead Prez, who have been under the radar ever since dropping their debut album Let’s Get Free, and DJ Kuttin Kandi of the 5th Platoon turntablist crew. 7 p.m. Free. Sanders Theatre...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...