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...spirit and the need to validate one's pride. In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a hunting trip with friends in Ireland. Though he considered himself an excellent shot, Beaver was unable to bag any golden plovers. Wounded, Beaver suggested the bird might be the fastest in Europe. Upon returning from the trip, neither he nor his friends were able to locate a reference book that provided the answer...
...Chris told Bumatai. Then he tossed back his head and laughed at the host’s response. It was a nice laugh: short, not too shrill. “At three years old,” Bumatai said, “I wanted to be Big Bird.” When I got into Harvard, my father told me I should watch out for the freshmen who want to be president. There were some in every class—fast-talking, glad-handing politicos who started campaigning for the Oval Office the minute they entered the Yard. Ignore them...
...with the darker issues of the times he lived in. One of the highlights of the exhibition is Klee's Angelus Novus, on loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem until the end of December. Rarely seen outside of Israel, the watercolor, depicting a strange creature that is part bird, part man and part angel, has sparked various interpretations over the years. Its former owner, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, believed that it represented the Angel of History. According to another theory, the painting was inspired by Adolf Hitler, who lived in Munich at the same time as Klee. When...
...Klee's work, although it's not always obvious at first glance. The abstract drawing After a Drawing From the Year 1919, for example, reduces an air attack on a boat to bare lines and geometrical shapes. In Klee's depictions of aerial battles, war planes look like birds, and often it's only the titles - Crashing Bird or Aerial Hunting Scene - that reveal the real meanings of the paintings...
...just fine. While “Modern Guilt” lacks the high-budget weirdness we’ve come to expect from his videos, it delivers the originality and absurdist flair that defines them. But I, for one, do miss seeing him dance around like an awkward baby bird. —Molly O. Fitzpatrick