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...unidentified people within them. The exhibit—presented by Harvard Real Estate Services in Holyoke Center Arcade through March 4—features pieces by Keina Davis Elswick from the past seven years. Elswick uses portraiture to add an element of the poetic to the everyday. The color blue, a color that Elswick likes for its ability to communicate melancholy, is used throughout her work. The emotion conveyed through the artwork transforms her paintings and their subjects—a woman standing on a winding road, a mother and a daughter, a man with his head in his hand?...
...time was 5:45 am. Walking past a deserted Kennedy Center, it struck my group that in the past ten minutes we had seen several sets of blue-red police lights but not a single fellow civilian. Deserted shopping complexes and the occasional pack of home-bound partiers constituted the early morning scene at the riverbank. The light of a purring black helicopter scanned the fractured sheets coating the Potomac, while a hovercraft zipped over them, fissuring the fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell...
...political phenomenon, firmly clamping itself to the new president’s coattails in an effort to reinvigorate its image as “the forward thinker’s choice.”Historically, Pepsi has navigated the management of its image deftly. While the red, white, and blue graphic in question is now as recognizable as the name Pepsi itself, it was a relative late-comer to the brand’s image. Originally wrought in the 1940s as a show of patriotism and support for a nation at war, the Pepsi Globe stuck, though its message soon...
Andre the Giant, Barack Obama, Andy Warhol, Flavor Flav, Noam Chomsky, and the dollar bill have one thing in common: at different points in time they have all been made into a Shepard Fairey image. A street artist whose mixture of black, red, white, and, most recently, blue in stylized swaths makes his images instantly recognizable to the initiated, Fairey has peppered the walls of buildings, electrical boxes, and street signs for the past 20 years with stickers and posters. The text accompanying the images dares the observer to “obey,” seeking to prompt passersby...
...Despite his pervasive presence on street signs around America, it wasn’t until the 2008 presidential election that Fairey slingshotted onto the national stage with his creation of the now iconic, red, white, and blue Obama poster. Yet as Shepard Fairey goes from underground to mainstream, and from street to gallery, is his message getting muddled...