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Where this year's Biennial goes out on a limb is in the decision to devote a separate venue to shared social experiences defined as artworks. These include a 24-hour dance marathon, a Gypsy-themed feast and a slumber party. Momin and Huldisch say this kind of evanescent "event art" is another manifestation of the recoil from the market, and that it's so widespread across the U.S. that no survey show can ignore it. To accommodate this, for its first three weeks, the Biennial is spilling over to the Park Avenue Armory, a Victorian brick pile...
This sense of justice was informed by a sense of the divine. The Queen of the Night, a terra-cotta tablet that is the only other artwork to have survived from the period, displays a naked goddess wearing a horned headdress and carrying a rod - symbols of divinity and justice...
...have an academic discussion about it, which was so awkward,” Schlozman says.Awkward or not, the trip and discussion highlight the way that art can be studied in varying degrees of effectiveness. In the dark of a Harvard classroom, where students view artwork on two-dimensional slides, perhaps no one would have distinguished the monkey amidst the other figures. But when students venture out into the world and experience art in its original form, they often gain entirely new perspectives.LIKE SHAKESPEARE FROM CLIFF NOTESIn the past, students in HAA graduate seminars, like Schlozman’s, have traveled...
...This statue is especially inconspicuous during the winter months, when it usually rests under a shielding tarp.Whether art in the Yard is hidden literally or figuratively, it is evident that many of Harvard’s own students seem to be oblivious to much of the artwork that dots it.“I would say that students are not very aware at all,” says James A. McFadden ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, strolling towards Lamont. “I couldn’t tell you the name, sculptor, or meaning...
...artist, you always have that drive to make things, but there’s something scary I find about constantly producing, producing, producing.”When not producing new photographs, Davey reads and writes voraciously, and these passions are also evident in her artwork. “For a lot of the pictures, I was interested in the way text functions, that you can read all of the notes, cereal boxes, and papers,” she says. In a photograph of her refrigerator, which is absent from the exhibit but is included in the exhibition catalogue, the appliance...