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Uyvonne Page, 59, is among the crowd on Michigan Avenue after getting up early to vote. She says she set three alarms for Tuesday, starting at 3 a.m., so she could arrive at her South Side Chicago polling station by 5 a.m. Page, a part-time artist, says she donated $35 to Obama's presidential campaign...
...asking "What is an artist?" to students at the California Institute of the Arts: "Reactions were so aggressive that I came to the conclusion that I must be violating some taboo. When I asked the students, they looked completely shocked. "That's not fair!" said one. "You can't ask that!" said another. An artist with a senior position in a university art department accused me of being "stupid," and a major curator said, "Ugh. All your questions are only answerable in a way that is almost tautological. I mean, for me, an artist is someone who makes...
...Japanese artist Takashi Murakami working with hip-hop megastar Kanye West: Murakami explained how the collaboration evolved in simple terms: "'Kanye was a big fan of my big breast sculpture. He learned my work and asked me to make designs.' The 'big breast sculpture' is Hiropon, a painted fiberglass work completed in 1997 of a blue-haired girl with gargantuan breasts from which milk gushes in such abundance that the flow encircles her body like a skipping rope...
...Boston Modern Orchestra Project performed alongside guest artist Kenneth Radnofsky to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence at Sanders Theatre on Sunday evening. The concert, “Israel at 60: Six Decades of Innovative Music,” marked the world premier of Israeli composer Betty Olivero’s composition Kri’ot, the first piece of Israeli classical music to join a solo saxophone—played by Radnofsky—and a string quartet. Oliveros’ premier received a five-minute standing ovation from the audience. Sponsored by the Combined...
...utterly integral to progress as a nation. Paying tribute to the poet Robert Frost less than a month before his assassination, Kennedy declared: “I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist...