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...academies of India, China and Vietnam, technical skill and an ability to reference the region's rich cultural heritage outweighed social commentary or renegade brush strokes. For centuries, Chinese students spent their school years laboriously copying the ink landscapes of ancient masters. The same held true in India, where artistic merit often was equated either with an ability to reproduce themes from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine, an academy set up in Hanoi...
...Harvard College Women’s Center’s fourth art show exhibits works by eight Harvard undergraduates seeking to describe the “Harvard experience” through self-portraits. About 30 artists, friends, and even a few freshman parents filled the Women’s Center when the show opened at 7 p.m. Friday night. The media used in the students’ artwork ranged from photography to silk-screening to newsprint collages to dot stickers. While the subjects of the self-portraits spanned a broad spectrum, two of the artists placed a special focus...
...award, given annually by mtvU, MTV’s online college network, is presented to what the Web site calls the “college artist most likely to break through this year.” Show Me Action was selected by mtvU as one of 25 finalists two weeks ago, according to the band...
Felice Frankel does not consider herself an artist, though some people might confuse her for one. A Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC), Frankel recently received the Lennart Nilsson award—and the $15,000 that comes with it—for her compelling scientific photography. The Crimson caught up with Frankel to hear about her experience as a cutting-edge photographer walking a thin line between science and art. The larger issue dealt with here is trying to get researchers and students to understand the importance of visually experiencing science...
...company money. She was sent as payment. “They traded me like a ho to be in this play,” she said. “I accidentally fell into this other thing—acting—and then I had way more success, both artistically and financially than I ever thought...I never thought I would make more than 75 dollars a week.”Deutch began his career working in advertising for the film company United Artists. After a stint of unemployment, he went into making film trailers—including...