Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It is a demanding role," says Iain Softley, the film's director, "because Kate does dark things and yet she has to be sympathetic." At 31, Bonham Carter is up to the challenge, physically and technically. She is, for a start, fully ravishing now. Her dramatic coloring--black eyes, ivory...
American Canvas, as the work is titled, is based on "a nationwide initiative of regional and community forums" that were conducted in cities across the country last year; participants included many arts administrators and community activists and surprisingly few actual artists. The resulting study is every bit as morbidly fascinating...
In fact, American Canvas takes a more Mapplethorp-friendly but no less aesthetically reductive view: "[T]he arts community has long labored under a stubbornly persistent class system of its own, one that continues to haunt the field...a demographic profile that tends to be older, wealthier, better educated, and...
Poor arts! No one ever suggests that dogs range far afield from the traditional canine function. The catch is, when you take money from the government, you subject yourself to the mercies of the political process--which is also open, as the recent history of the NEA (not to mention...
Painting by numbers is not particularly taxing. The canvas comes prepainted, and a neat if unimaginative work is guaranteed. Nicholas Delbanco '63 has made literature by the numbers with his new book Old Scores. The prefab plot of star-crossed love between teacher and student serves as his canvas, but...