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...poll sent over House e-mail lists requested undergraduate input on the design and features of the garden, listing possibilities such as “avant-garde sculpture” and “state-of-the art composting systems...
showcase the designs D/R popularized after the company introduced products from avant-garde European designers such as Marimekko and Iittala to the United States
...GALLERY EXIT Duck inside this 14-month-old art space (1 Shin Hing Street) to view fresh work by emerging artists from Hong Kong, China and East Asia. An exhibition by Beijing-based avant-garde photographer Chen Wei runs until...
Fred Ho ’79—baritone saxophonist, composer, band leader, political activist, and Marxist—is a pretty remarkable guy. He aspires to create multicultural and deeply political music by blending avant-garde jazz and African American music with Asian influences, and he actively fuses his roles as an artist and political activist to create a uniquely expressive identity for himself. Last Friday, Ho was honored with the Fall 2009 Harvard Arts Medal, which is awarded by the Office for the Arts to an alumni “who has made a special contribution...
...Pastorale d’été.” Though this work does not promise much in the way of dynamic variety or musical progression, Luisi did what he could with a compositionally-constrained piece. Honegger, one of six composers loosely identified as leaders of the musical avant-garde movement in the 1920s, employed languid horns and murmuring strings to capture the flavor of first light in a pastoral setting...