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...function. Imprinted with images of everyday objects - knives and forks, faucets, martini glasses - and rendered in one of six pale glazes, the tiles can be applied in volume or in smaller numbers to add a decorative flourish. "I'm fascinated by functionalism, but we approach each piece as an artwork," says Rege. "Some people even frame and hang them." Rege's life on the tiles began after Turner, a fellow graduate in ceramics from Edinburgh College of Art, started looking for tiles for her own kitchen. "Everything I saw was characterless - no wit or humor," says Turner. Inspired...
...tries to keep up with his AP classes but becomes more interested in hanging out with his ne'r-do-well pal and tweaking on crystal meth. While filling the story with atmospheric details like Hawaiian slang ("baku" for meth; "haole" for a non-native), Johnson's remarkably confident artwork drains the lush world of its color, leaving just the deep shadows. Night Fisher brings a chill to the tropics...
...reception in the Fogg Art Museum following the wedding. The president embraced his mother, Anita A. Summers, as members of both families greeted each other on the steps of the Fogg. The museum, home to the University’s prized collections of early Renaissance and Impressionist artwork, was transformed for the evening into a modest reception hall in the main foyer that hosted an assortment of the couple’s friends, family, and colleagues. The boldface names of Harvard’s administrative ranks were almost all in attendance, having trudged through the snow-sloshed streets...
...luminescent granule is transformed into a star. At this point, for Enya to mount a winged unicorn and fly to a castle in the clouds would not have been all that surprising, but the video mercifully ends before the director can conjure up any more scenarios cribbed from the artwork of middle-school girls. You’d think if she was going to dabble in the goth aesthetic she might at least toss a couple of Danzig riffs into the new single. Alas, no such luck. Bela Lugosi must be turning in his grave. —Bernard...
...even phoenixes, all part of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s newest exhibition: “Evocative Creatures: Animal Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art,” which opened on November 16, 2005. Located within the Sackler’s East Asian collection, the artwork is fascinating for any animal lover or Asian art aficionado. Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, organized “Animal Motifs.”Mowry said that “this...