Word: darth
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...Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project.” The puppet opera, with its soundtrack of DJ scratches, depicts both the major players behind the creation of the Carpenter Center and contemporary art connoisseurs. Harvard is represented in a catch-all character named Harvard Dean of Deans, who physically mirrors both Darth Vader and a flying beetle. Linda Norden, associate curator at the Fogg Art Museum, describes the puppet opera as illustrating “Harvard’s relationships to living art.” She states that the creation of the Carpenter Center represented the “collision...
...marionette likenesses is a scaly, black foam apparition referred to as “Mr. Harvard, Dean of Deans,” who floats through a misty Harvard Yard. He—or it—is a representation of institutional bureaucracy, a collision between a praying mantis and Darth Vader...
...went from being on the dole to winning the $A100,000 Contempora 5 Art Prize in Melbourne, followed by a white-hot career based in Los Angeles and now London. That rapidity contrasts with the stillness of his work. With his best-known piece, the head of Darth Vader made from layers of charcoal MDF board (Model for a Sunken Monument, 1999), there's a sense that time is warping before your very eyes...
...strange spectacle: a vision of conservative Islam in front of a liberal Western audience. "Personally," says a voice from behind the veil, "I think it's a drag to wear a burqa because I always get chased by kids for an autograph. They think I'm Darth Vader." To loud applause, Shabana Rehman shakes off the burqa to reveal a skimpy red cocktail dress underneath. She promises to tell the audience "the dirtiest joke you ever heard," and then proceeds to do so - in Urdu. The crowd loves it. Rehman, one of Norway's best-known comedians, has made...
...Darth Vader’s original costume for Dean Kirby at graduation...