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...sponsored by the Asian American Association. The models showed off clothes that explored the interplay between fashion and cultural identity, with a focus on the Asian American experience. Three themed acts—Demure Danger, Asian Americana, and Street Culture—exhibited mixes of Eastern and Western styles. Designers from Harvard College, the Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology showcased their work in two “Student Design” segments. Demure Danger took its inspiration from two trends of the 1920s, the colorful Chinese qipao dress and the freewheeling flapper styles of Prohibition...
...same, Zumthor is no recluse. In the 1960s he studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and he has taught in Los Angeles, Munich and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. But for more than 40 years he has lived in Haldenstein, a small Alpine village in central Switzerland, where he maintains a studio with 15 designers and other "collaborators...
...especially unique and one for which a large degree of autonomy is essential. This is not to say that the Lumina Foundation’s new project threatens to end diversity in itself—its framers explain that educators at each individual school will retain their prerogative to design courses and curricula so long as they comply with the agreed-upon framework. Nonetheless, Lumina should question whether its program is heading in the right direction. Significant curricular differences may make decisions harder for the Class of 2013, but they would be foolish to have it any other...
...connected to the ability of ideas to move from one discipline to the next, from the arts to the sciences.”Edwards, who teaches “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences,” created the course to encourage artists and designers to dream, and subsequently arrive, at the frontier of science.“You’re not in art or in science but at the border of something we think of as opposites,” says Tarik Umar ’10, one of Edwards’ former students...
...churches, and apparently there was no contradiction between painting a Last Supper on Tuesday and a sexually charged nude on Wednesday (though it seems like Martin Scorsese filming a porno). Through all of the rooms, the intense rivalry between these three painters is brought out through skillful curatorial design; a striking pairing of “Last Suppers” shows the differences between Titian and Tintoretto. While the Titian is beautifully composed and rich in detail, the Tintoretto is a parody of Titian’s scene. All of the figures surrounding Christ are looking away from...