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Then there are Joe Bradley's big bright canvases, such as Cavalry, 2007, which combine the resolutely abstract boxes and rectangles of Minimalist and color-field painting into cartoon-character formations. It's a bit of an art-history joke, and one that sculptor Joel Shapiro played with more than 20 years ago in 3-D. But Bradley's ferocious colors and color contrasts give his work a weirdly commanding presence, one made weirder still by all those infantile silhouettes...
...Juca spend timeon Porto Alegre’s beach. It’s the off-season,and the only time their fathers canafford to send their sons on vacation.The beach is a lonely place then, andcontrasts sharply with the final beachscene in February, where there are lots ofpeople and color.“It is not uncommon in Porto Alegreto have your city social relations andyour beach social relations, completelyunconnected, for the different parts ofthe year,” Furtado said. In his typical way,Furtado takes this traditional cliché andplays with it. In the romance betweenRoza and Chico...
...racism has been called America’s great historic struggle. Even the institution of race-based hiring decisions—with their good intentions paving the way to hell as ever—forebodes a future still far removed from that nebulous multicultural promise of “color-blindness...
...Jewish captives. In 601 B.C., Jehoiakim, King of Judah, forged an alliance with Egypt, which was embroiled in ongoing skirmishes with Babylon; as retribution, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, raiding Solomon's Temple and seizing 10,000 Jews to help build his city. This brutal history would later color the portrayal of Babylon in the Bible. "In Christian culture, Babylon was quite deliberately developed as a broad symbol of the city of sin," says Michael Seymour, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern collection. Indeed, over the centuries, Judeo-Christian texts would consistently imbue Babylon with a sense...
...18th annual “Ghungroo” was a riot of color, sound, and motion. The Harvard South Asian Association’s three-hour cultural celebration, which ran this past weekend, featured traditional and nontraditional South Asian dance, music, and poetry interspersed with skits poking fun at about both South Asian and non-South-Asian culture. The show began on a mellow note. Female performers in brightly colored traditional garb kept the rhythm with bells wrapped around their ankles while performing a classical dance. It was followed by one of three traditional poems, read in an Indian language...