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...mulberry leaf. His way of painting, once set up, becomes an effort of pure transcription that relocates the acts of imagination way back in the roots of its system, and spends months on it. Essentially, what he does is copy faces large from small photographs. "Large" means enormous--canvases 8 ft. or 9 ft. high, filled with the staring face of someone you probably don't know and who has no special public existence. (All Close's sitters were his friends, mostly artists such as the sculptor Richard Serra or the painter Joe Zucker, none of them well known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Close Encounters | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

BGLTSA members will canvas the Yard in adisplay of pride, marking the beginning of QueerHarvard Month.

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Elects Officers | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Yet Art may prove that the joke isn't so outdated after all. The play, in fact, is much like the painting onstage. It's slickly rendered; it's got the critics' imprimatur; and if you stare at it long enough, you can imagine all sorts of shadings and hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three-Finger Exercise | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

The problems I've outlined above point us toward the need for an RES department at Harvard that includes (but is not necessarily limited to) programs in Asian American, Latino and Native American studies. Contrary to cherished opinion, race and ethnic studies is not a hodgepodge of theories studying a...

Author: By Nancy G. Lin, | Title: Going to Bat For Ethnic Studies | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Elegant Crate & Barrel couches with light canvas slip covers, flanked by wrought-iron floor lamps establish a pristine, catalog-like atmosphere. Behind the sofa, light pours in through the large bay window. On the opposite wall, above the mini-refrigerator, hangs a mounted jackelope head.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: elegant atmosphere | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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