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Small pictures, powerful presence and an output that can't be compressed into a single show. The Hayward's version, "Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation," was curated by a critic, Robert Kudielka, and a painter, the supremely intelligent and responsive Bridget Riley, the grande dame of English art. As Kudielka points out in his catalog introduction, Klee's work was not rooted in any movement. However abstract, it came out of the experience of nature and culture blended. Perhaps the decisive moment in Klee's early career was a 1914 visit that he and his friend August Macke paid...
...main characters in Arsenic are theater critic Mortimer Brewster (William R. Holmgren ’04) and his sweet, grandmotherly aunts Abby (Jamie E. Smith ’02) and Martha Brewster (Andrea D. Leahy ’05). Their priceless interactions follow the about-to-be-married Mortimer, as he discovers that his seemingly saintly aunts have been murdering lonely old men with their homemade arsenic-laced elderberry wine...
...know it, you know it: Elite universities inflate their grades. From what I can tell, Harvard is no worse than other top schools. Inflation exists wherever students pay tens of thousands of dollars per year and are treated, in return, as consumers of education. As one critic put it, how hard does a consumer ever have to work to buy a product...
Like many artists, Gaudí began with more detractors than fans. One critic in the early 1950s described his famous façades as "tortures of the imagination, fetuses in stone, bulbous obscenities." But today, many hail him as a genius, some are calling on the Pope to make him a saint, and more than two million people come to Barcelona each year to stare at his buildings, love them or hate them. With the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 25, the city of Barcelona and the Catalan and Spanish governments have proclaimed 2002 International Gaudí Year...
International reaction to Gaudí has also been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...