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...being chased away, but people were encouraged to look and even stare. (This was such a new-fangled notion that some department stores had to hire professional “window gazers” to help the trend catch on.) Bu ilding on these earlier techniques of layout and design, department store windows of the 50s and 60s were the context in which art and fashion literally merged. Window dressers began to use actual works of art from emerging artists as the background to their displays. Fun fact: it was in show windows, not art museums, that artists such...
...religious conflict” might bring to mind the troubles in the Middle East and the culture clash between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Perhaps it might recall the rise of the Evangelical Right in America and the debate over the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in schools. But in his book “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” Steven Nadler evokes a time when the greatest religious conflicts were located within the Christian Church itself, between Protestantism and Catholicism. Nadler relays the intellectual debate that took place between three 17th-century theologians...
Little known to most students, the IKEA furniture that adorns their rooms caters not only to the tenets of affordability and ease-of-use, but also to the Scandanavian design principles of sustainability and elegance. Glass artist and Danish Design School Professor Charles Meaker discussed the merits of Swedish construction and opportunities for architectural study abroad with a handful of students at the Office of International Programs yesterday. When Meaker asked for their thoughts on IKEA, the students—who were also snacking on Danish pastries provided by the OIP—listed the simple design and quality...
...line at a polling place before in five elections at this place since 2000,” he said. Even with high voter turnout, the Harvard-area polling stations, at Quincy House, the Graham and Parks Alternative School located next to the Radcliffe Quadrangle, and the Graduate School of Design managed to prevent any major voting-machine errors, according to officials at the Quincy House polling station. Aside from missing a sheet from the voter rolls at the beginning of the day, the Quincy House station did not experience any other problems, said an official at the polling station...
...Remember this day. We now get to imagine, at least for a while, that the election of Obama has not just turned a page in our politics but also tossed out the whole book so we can start over. Whether by design or by default, the past now loses power: for the moment, it feels as if we've left behind the baby-boomer battles of the past 40 years; the culture wars that took us prisoner and cut us off from what we have in common; the tribal warfare between rich and poor, North and South, black and white...