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QUESTION: IS LIFE A COMEDY OR A tragedy? Answer: It depends on your medication. That, at least, is what the old (young) Woody Allen might have said. But Allen, who turns 70 this year, and whose filmmaking career includes dour dramas as well as his signature comedies of yearning, is...
Ongoing. Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; $6 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon; Wed. 3-5 p.m.
Ongoing. To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop. Fogg Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID.
Visually, the film is a delight, and the cinematography should be spared no praise. Deep focus is used expertly to draw attention to the myriad details that comprised village life in nineteenth century Korea: the glowing embers of a tavern hearth, the massive earthen pots keeping sentry at the portals...
On a less technical level though, Barnard’s reflections about art and aesthetics are interesting for a general audience. Barnard lived and studied in Japan, and many of his beliefs about the value of art are derived from his experiences there. In Japan, where pottery has both a...