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...fringe, renegade institution, unauthorized, skirting central issues and attacking them like an Indian war party,” Guillemin says. “Arts have to find out important causes, go directly to the people who are in charge of them, claim that the arts can provide a better way of handling these problems than any way that’s instituted so far, and then work diligently with bureaucracies so that the good of society is bettered...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Artwork into the Streets | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...better and better my art was getting, I was speaking to fewer and fewer people in a coded language that the art world understood, but that people outside the art world did not understand at all,” he says. It was this disconnect from society that drove him to recreate the “Mona Lisa” on the sidewalks of Boston’s Washington Street...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Artwork into the Streets | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...which people were being ignored, where people had no voice. Art, which is a very able voice, could become the voice of the needy.” As reinforcement for his beliefs, Guillemin rebaptized himself and now goes by the name of Sidewalk Sam (or, as he is better known, Sidewalk...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Artwork into the Streets | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...thing about Jay is that, if we’d had a better season last year—not even a winning season, say something close to a .500 season—Jay would’ve been All-American. Without question,” Balaraman stated with confidence...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spirited Goalie Carries on Legacy | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Dylan treatment. Whipping the song up into a foot-stomping, speedy accordion romp, the reindeer roll call gets cheekily politicized, with “Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon” and “Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton” joining the ranks of Santa’s better-known little helpers, Dasher, Prancer, and Vixen. Heading down under on “Christmas Island,” he pays tribute to both Jimmy Buffett and the Andrews’ Sisters renditions of the twangy ditty, with female singers cooing their answer to Dylan’s request...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bob Dylan | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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