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Outside, Stein climbs into a row of parked cars with her volunteers, carrying with her a box of take-out calzones and an old canvas knapsack.

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: On Last Day, Stein Goes Basement to Boston | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

So you think you really understand the minds and souls of Marilyn Manson and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. Then take TIME's Name That Rocker-Painter Quiz! If you can figure out which rock star did which painting on the basis of subject, mood and overall aesthetic, then, dude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 2002 | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...earliest works here date from the 1940s. Writhing with organic shapes and bearing titles like The Slaying of Osiris and Pagan Void, they depict nothing recognizable, though there is a floor or horizon for the viewer to hang on to. But in the exhibition's next room, full of canvases from the period when he found his own vision, the ground has fallen away and the viewer is suspended, gazing at pure painted surfaces - and beyond them into unreadable depths. The only features are the verticals that became his theme. In The Word I (1946), brown paint is scraped over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primal Force | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

In his teaching, Ellis tries to emphasize the fact that “there’s both a contradiction and a sympathy between representing something as a symbol and perceiving it in the world.” His large, abstract paintings blend geometry with hints of natural form just...

Author: By Angela M. Salvucci, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Self-Exposed | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

My inability to draw or paint concerns me, as I am often misunderstood in both the written and visual media. Particularly, I feel that I may have a better chance on dates if I learned to work with oils on canvas. Verbal debacles could be avoided and she, at the...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: What Harvard Doesn't Know | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

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