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Dimly lit, the exhibit??s installation of four of Maltzan’s buildings turns a busy hallway into a sort of monotone runway, with architectural models queued up to take off. The exhibition presents four current Maltzan projects, all of them located in California: two expensive residences (Leona Drive in Beverly Hills and a residence along the beach in Malibu) and the expansion of two small regional museums (the Fresno Metropolitan Museum in the agricultural town of Fresno and the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa...
...exhibit??s focus on the expansive horizon, the sharp contrast between the sky and the ground and the striking features of the land makes each photograph an extraordinary tableau to behold. For most people, the obvious interest in the exhibition is the relationship between Wenders’s cinematic and photographic works. But Melissa Davenport, who worked on this exhibition for the Carpenter Center, explains that it has the potential to appeal to a wider audience...
...only artist to be exhibited in three different media is Franz von Stuck, whose noteworthy contributions in printmaking and painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit??s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...
...patterned wall manages to do, the entire exhibit questions the very nature of queer art. Han Yu ’06, the exhibit??s curator, explains that she wasn’t merely attempting to display works by gay and lesbian artists. Even “straight up gay and lesbian depictions” were not on her radar; after all, she points out, with Abercrombie models photographed in homoerotic contexts and lipsticked models posing lesbian, the public has been flooded with such images. Yu wanted instead to gather works that could be read with a queer message...
...autobiography began to seem suspicious” and “it must be so easy for you to pass” to a collection of mirrors angled to shine the light into writing “DUST” on the wall, the exhibit??s pieces, created by Harvard undergrads and local artists, break down everyday mediums to question our conceptions of identity...