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...most people, a broken printer is a nuisance. For Svetlana Boym, it’s inspiration. Boym, the Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, showcases her artwork for the first time at Harvard this month. In her experimental multi-media exhibit “Nostalgic Technologies,” on display in the Transit Gallery of CGIS South until April 10, Boym manipulates technology to reevaluate photographs from her travels throughout Europe and America. Boym’s journey into what she calls “broken-tech art” began when...
...that serves as a floating condominium building, lets out its staterooms for six-day cruises. In New York City, where socialites appear?and are photographed?at several galas or events each week, Wardrobe, a couture-gown rental shop, helps them solve the vexing question of what to wear. Skis, artwork, yachts?why buy when it's easier, and often more practical, to rent...
...Street, favorites of celebs like Giorgio Armani, Glenn Close and Jennifer Lopez). The Haymarket, which was designed in the 19th century by architect John Nash, will have 55 rooms and suites, all individually decorated by Kit Kemp in a fresh, modern yet traditional English style. The lobby will feature artwork by Tony Cragg and John Virtue. The Brumus Bar and Restaurant will serve northern Italian cuisine, and other hotel features include a library, gym, beauty-treatment room and 60-ft. pool...
...relationship has been a mixed blessing on Kominsky Crumb's artwork, raising its exposure while exposing it to unfair comparison. Even worse, she says, people assume that her husband does all the writing and drawing on their collaborative works. In many ways her artwork perfectly counterbalances Crumb's. Where he has one of the finest drafting skills of any living cartoonist her "tortured scratching" (her words) makes a mockery of proportion, weight and space. People hate her for it just as people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes...
...grim realities..." It reads more like a spread from InStyle magazine than a continuation of the earlier, penetrating work. Giving benefit of the doubt, it could be read as failed sarcasm. If that was the point, the failure, interestingly, is in the lack of any comix. Kominsky Crumb's artwork clearly changes the tone of her artistic voice, allowing the humor to come...