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Perhaps the most engaging and surprising works are Feininger's photographs, mostly from the 1930's. They show off the artist's supreme sense of composition and perspective in a way that makes even his doodles (some on display) worth another look. That holds for at least two of his colored chalk sketches. Certainly "Four Nuns at the Beach" took no more than two minutes to finish and Feininger never would have thought to exhibit such things himself, but framed and mounted these sketches arrest attention in gross disproportion to the scant markings that define them...
...20th century, though many of his colleagues have over-shadowed him. In 1924 when Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Vier, a reference to his earlier Munich group Der Blaue Reiter, Feininger went with him along with Paul Klee and Alexei von Jawlensky (whose works are also currently on display at the Busch-Reisinger). Teaching and producing with the group brought Feininger from there to the new Dessau Bauhaus and to Berlin where Klee and Kandinsky, in particular, expounded their famous theories on color and composition...
...anyone who has never visited the Busch-Reisinger galleries--and needs extra incentives--the modern gallery space is a pleasant discovery. On permanent display and complementing the Feininger exhibit are selections from Harvard's substantial German Expressionism collection and capping off the theme, Bauhaus model suspension chairs furnish the gallery's reading alcove. But beware the guards dressed like college students; they're barrel-chested and agile like a Mike Tiorano, only with less tolerance for pens and packs...
Spearheaded by sophomore power forward Allison Feaster's career-high 31-point performance, the Crimson defeated the Bears at Brown for the first time since the 1990-91 season, the year Harvard last won the Ancient Eight crown. In addition to her Jordan-esque offensive display, Feaster was a terror on the boards in the second half, ripping 13 of 16 on the night over the final 20 minutes...
...board's initial sequences, featuring quotes from "Alice in Wonderland" and the U.S. Constitution, were created by an outside graphic arts firm as a temporary display until students came up with their own ideas, Yankee said...