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...when he was still living in China, the artist Cai Guo-Qiang began experimenting with a very Chinese medium. And a very tricky one: gunpowder. He would sprinkle it on fibrous paper, then light it to create a "drawing" of burned residues. He moved on to produce outdoor "explosion events," using fireworks to create spectacles on the ground and in the sky that he related to Taoist ideas about destruction and transformation. By now, Cai (pronounced Sigh) is an old master of blast art. Which is funny, because at 50, he's a soft-spoken man with a modest manner...
...length of the Guggenheim's vast rotunda. Cai sees it as a "contradictory presentation--very strong physical violence presented in terms of physical beauty." And there's no denying that the piece brings its share of wow factor to the rotunda. But it's also an instance of an artist playing air guitar with history--making a strenuous gesture to create the impression that he's summoning a powerful reality, when in fact he's merely toyed with it. All the same, it certainly fits the apocalyptic tenor of this show. When the smoke from all that gunpowder clears, there...
Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock learned a salsa dance step, played the dundun drum from Mali, and participated in an intertribal Indian social dance as Artist of the Year at the 23rd annual “Cultural Rhythms” show in Sanders Theater on Saturday. The day-long event, presented by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is a yearly celebration of diversity at Harvard that includes two shows and a food festival. The event stars a range of Harvard’s multicultural performance groups, showcasing songs, dances, and musical instruments from around the world...
...goals is increasing student awareness not only of these renovated facilities but of their availability to those who aren’t world-class violinists or skilled oil-painters.“That has been my goal: to get people who don’t self-describe themselves as artists to come and use the facilities,” says Kevin Moore, the resident art tutor in Lowell House, who also oversees the house art room and darkroom. While many house arts facilities remain off the beaten path, they’re striving?...
...thing, in the arts and otherwise, simply because of nostalgia, but because there is something intrinsically and objectively important in experiencing something in its original form. Actually playing the guitar involves much more practice and skill than “Guitar Hero,” and it allows for artistic imagination and creativity. Any art made by hand and seen firsthand requires effort on the part of both the artist and the observer. Often, it’s only without manipulation by technology that some real meaning can emerge.The real thing feels better. It might require more work, but there?...