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...media, from photography to video and audio recordings. The sarcastic newscast “New Report” by K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood makes use of this mixed media, as does “One of Us” by Ulrike Muller, which features only a red curtain and headphones. Moyra Davey’s “50 Minutes” is a profound contribution to the broader notion of the mundane that runs through the show. The documentary’s subject matter and camera work are raw: the video twirls and dizzies the viewer, providing...
...hard as the government tried to prevent it, little bits of reality kept seeping out from behind the curtain. At the Grand People's Study House, a sort of public library that conducts free classes in a variety of subjects, a colleague accidentally opened a door and found herself in a classroom that was dimly lit and at least 15F (8C) colder than the ones we had been shown. Some of the students wore winter jackets and hats. Earlier that morning, a member of the orchestra arrived late for a lavish breakfast buffet and found a couple...
...spin-off of traditional fairy tales ranging from Humpty Dumpty to Cinderella. With a savvy balance of pop-culture references, word play, and Harvard humor, the constant jokes in nearly every line and lyric might seem a little excessive at first, but they keep the audience engaged until the curtain falls and leave it wanting more. Before the show even begins, the title “Fable Attraction” begins the onslaught of comedy. The curtains open, a colorful unicorn named “Peggy Seuss” played by David J. Andersson ’09 delivers...
...once called “pedacito del cielo”—a little piece of heaven. This is not just a nickname, but also seems to refer to the unfulfilled dream of a modernist utopia. Now, slums surround many of the geometric concrete surfaces and glass curtain walls of the mid-century expansion.Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck’s exhibit at the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center, titled “Pedacito del Cielo (1998-2008),” tackles the tangled exponents of Latin American geometrical abstraction, from modernist architecture to sculpture to a video of performance...
...it’s no coincidence that there are no cameras in that courtroom,” Toobin says—he needed all the goodwill he could muster to write this book.“The Nine” goes behind and around the curtain at the Supreme Court to track the rise of the conservative movement, beginning with the creation of the Federalist Society in 1982 and not ending until the close of the judicial term last June. In his book, Toobin makes the point that the Supreme Court is as much at the mercy of politics...