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...Chase Manhattan bank wearing only a skirt made of cash and urging passersby to pluck the bills away. Last Thursday, the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist at the Office for the Arts brought seven crying, spitting, racial slur-shouting baby heads to the Carpenter Center in “Corbu Pops,” a performance that was both humorous and disquieting.William Pope.L is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work in performance and public interventionist art which often deals with themes of race and consumerism. Influenced by movements such as DADA, the unsettling, yet intriguing “Corbu Pops?...
...building, the only North American structure designed by architect Le Corbusier, Pope.L has created a performance piece and exhibition in the Carpenter Center. The Crimson sat down with Pope.L to discuss his thoughts on masculinity, the role of arts in a liberal arts education, and “Corbu Pops,” his upcoming Carpenter Center installation.The Harvard Crimson: Give us an overview of your initial ideas for this exhibit and how the Carpenter Center became its home.William Pope.L: I was invited to do a commission here as part of a series of exhibits at the Carpenter Center...
...architectural world, from that halcyon year of 1920, when he started publishing his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, until his death in 1965. He inspired several generations of architects--including this author--not only in Europe but around the world. He was more than a mercurial innovator. Irascible, caustic, Calvinistic, Corbu was modern architecture's conscience...
...most popular classes, photography and film-making, are "really hard to get into if you're not in the department," says Katherine M. Howell, who works in the Cafe Corbu located in the lobby of the Carpenter Center. VES 50, "Fundamentals of Filmmaking," only accepts 20 students from more than 65 applicants...
...inventor of shapes, he showers contempt upon his most famous projects: Chandigarh, the Indian city built at the foot of the Himalayas, and the Unité d'Habitation, the huge apartment house outside Marseille. Hughes visits the Marseille building and stops in the shopping mall that Corbu put inside. It is empty. The French like the bustle of a real marketplace. Corbusier, says Hughes, thought of everything but the people who had to live in his creations...