Word: artisticness
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...program. Conner, who began his career as a figure in Beat circles in San Francisco in the mid-1950s, was active until his death earlier this year and remains an enigmatic icon in 20th century American art. Though he worked extensively in drawing, painting, and as a collage artist throughout his long and prolific career, Conner first gained attention for his sculpture work. These pieces were composed entirely of objects found in the scrap heaps of San Francisco—bits of cardboard and old building material, torn fabric and thread, pulp serials, broken dolls and, most famously, women?...
...Massachusetts College of Art and Design auditorium last Friday. Modeled after the distinctive gate from the fictional park itself, the entrance led to “They Should All Be Destroyed: A Jurassic Park Play,” a dramatic adaptation of the movie by the Baltimore-based artist collective Wham City. Like the park, the show initially looked like it might lack the technology to succeed in its ambitious enterprise. Before the show began, the audience was treated to a rendition of John Williams’s distinctive theme song that sounded like it was coming from a first...
...seems that great artists are always known by certain iconic stories. Who can forget the tragedy of Vincent van Gogh cutting off his left ear lobe after a confrontation with his friend Paul Gauguin? And then there’s Paul Gauguin himself, who is known for his attempt to escape European civilization in search a pre-civilization good life in Tahiti. There is the sadly romantic story of the dwarfen Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who would frequent the Moulin Rouge to pine after the beautiful, tall dancer Jane Avril.But Daniel Kehlmann, the author of the novel...
...What he was able to do with space was unprecedented,” he said. “He was described as a ‘machine for living’ but it was the living that was most important to him.” Local artist and photographer Helen K. Eddy said that she was able to relate more strongly to the late architect after Weber’s talk. “My art, like that of Le Corbusier, is to express beauty,” she said. “Some artists create art to express truth...
...dance. “I nabbed the gloves from intensive care at Fort Myers hospital,” she told the audience conspiratorially. Brown—who spoke last Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the MFA—pilfered them while visiting friend, ally, and artist Robert Rauschenberg. She had been unsure at the time of whether or how she would use them but packed them in her suitcase regardless. In her choreography, her drawing, and her life, Brown disregards rules and regulation; she does what she must to make art. “I don?...