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...Dark and louche images of pinup girls in trashy lingerie. When 12 curvy models strutted onto the runway dressed in opaque white nurses' coats and prim white hats, their mouths covered with black-lace face masks, the audience might have imagined it was witnessing a 3-D rendition of artist Richard Prince's famous nurse-paintings series. And indeed, the real point of the evening was to create a setting for the multicolored handbags done up in silk-screened LV logos created by Prince, the result of a recent collaboration with Jacobs...
...Harvard students and art connoisseurs from other universities watched a video of naked women pulling long strips of white paper out of their vaginas. The film, titled “Interior Scroll—The Cave,” was part of a presentation by visual and performance artist Carolee Schneemann yesterday afternoon. During her lecture, called “Disruptive Consciousness,” she showed and spoke about her work, from paintings and photographs to sculptures and short videos. The Harvard College Women’s Center invited Schneemann, whose exhibition is opening Friday at the Pierre Menard...
...second selection, “Shéhérazade,” shifted the atmosphere Eastward with lightly skittering strings backing the evocative melodies of mezzo-soprano guest artist Susan Graham. Graham carried the audience through the emotional narrative suggested in her performance of three poems, Tristan Klingsor’s “Asie,” “La Flûte enchantée,” and “L’Indifférent.” First wistful, then almost conversational, Graham engaged the audience with her poignant renderings of longing...
Such distinctive sound design is only one example of the creativity that the play, a pastiche of excerpts from Bruno Schulz’s work, brings to its interpretation of the twentieth-century artist and writer...
...Pollock Matters,” on display at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art though Dec. 9, is a romance as much as it is a mystery.Bringing to light the story of a friendship between four artists, paired into two married couples—Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and Herbert and Mercedes Matter—the show illustrates the intersection of their lives through letters, paintings, and photographs, a wide-ranging collection of relics that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.Of course, it’s the show’s overarching whodunit?...