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As the Annenbergs regale guests with vivid descriptions of the first-year dining hall's sweeping interior, and the Barkers boast proudly of the magnificent new humanities center, does everyone point and giggle at the namesake of Harvard's whitest elephant, Loker Commons?
Outraged by one work in the exhibition, Chris Ofili's black madonna festooned with elephant dung, Rudolph Giuliani, New York City mayor and all-but-declared U.S. Senate candidate, refused to pay the October installment of the city's $7 million subsidy to the museum. The city further claimed that...
But the plain and sometimes ugly truth is that when this sort of work sticks its jaw out into the wider world, its jaw turns to glass. That is surely the case with the lightning rod of the show, Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary (1996). The work, which has...
This has been a week for kiosks and basic morality, morality grand and misjudged and morality small but significant. First, the latest from the Out of Town News kiosk: Religion has been in forefront of coverage in both Massachusetts and New York without much good reason. New York mayor Rudy...
This afternoon, under the mounted moose and elephant heads of Manhattan's Harvard Club, President Neil L. Rudenstine is expected to tell a group of 150 donors and administrators that the University's mammoth $2.1-billion Capital Campaign has reached--and perhaps even surpassed--its original goal.