Word: artisticness
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...Lost,” Bruce Weber’s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened for the first time in ten years this past weekend at the Brattle Theater, “Let?...
...dolls. Ducharme says he chose to focus primarily on the katsinas’ masks, or faces, because the Hopi themselves concentrated their efforts largely on the details of the dolls’ heads. A doll can represent a katsina spirit simply through its facial features; at times an artist will choose to draw rather than carve the body. Ducharme also says that he emphasized the colors used to paint the dolls’ masks because they are symbolic in Hopi art: the Hopi use six colors to denote direction or the region from which a particular animal involved...
Vanguard hip-hop artist Missy Elliott has broken new ground once again with the debut of her latest music video in glorious 3-D. Ironically, in taking this step into uncharted territory, the artistic innovation we have come to expect from Elliott actually suffered. The video, directed by Dave Meyers, features “Ching-A-Ling” and “Shake Your Pom Pom” off the “Step Up 2 The Streets” soundtrack. To make the video, Elliott and Meyers teamed up with Walt Disney Studios, the same people behind...
...always waiting to be discovered. Call me an optimist; I’ll call you something far worse. I’m just hopeful for what’s to come.In justification of what may seem like youth-fueled naïveté, I present to you an artist you might have heard of: M.I.A. The British-born artist’s latest album, “Kala,” is an ode to modern originality. Each song is a tenuous marriage of world sounds—Baile Funk, hip hop, rock, and many more. To some, these tracks...
...soul - older voters vs. younger, information-age workers vs. industrial and service workers, wine vs. beer. There is also - and I will try to tread lightly here - the classic high school girl/boy differential: the note-taking, front-row girl grind vs. the charismatic, last-minute-cramming, preening male finesse artist. Both Clinton and Obama have difficulties reaching across those divides, and that is where the fear resides: neither candidate may prove strong or broad enough. As this campaign progresses, their weaknesses - the reasons for their inability to put away this nomination - are going to become more apparent than their strengths...