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...lecture, entitled “Seeing AIDS,” was given in conjunction with a Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts exhibit called “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993.” The exhibit, which has been on display since mid-October, showcases posters, stickers, and other visual media that were used in the political discourse about AIDS during that period...
...tough economic times, and Harvard Square has seen its share of blank windows and dark buildings. But, at least for a few more months, the most conspicuous storefront in the Square will light up Brattle St. with bold frocks, patterned cushions, quirky furniture, and floor-to-ceiling tapestries. The exhibit, under the direction of architect Jane F. Thompson, celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the glass and concrete edifice at 48 Brattle Street. Thompson’s late husband Benjamin C. Thompson designed the iconic building in 1969 as headquarters for Design Research, a home furnishings and design company the couple...
...just sat around and said, ‘what shall we do, what do we have available,’ then began moving all our furniture, our pieces, into the building,” Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside...
Pieces in the exhibit offer perspectives on pain, escape, truth, or humor. One print, Sandra Ramos’ “The Damned Circumstances of Water Everywhere,” depicts a near-naked woman lounging in a shape identical to the island nation. The piece depicts the close connection between the artists and their homeland as well as, the title implies, the isolation that some of the country’s artists might feel. Another of the exhibition’s pieces, Belkis Ayon’s “Resurrection,” shows a head with only...
Javan believes that the exhibition has been very successful, noting in particular how college students have reacted to the pieces: “Some [Boston University] students who came to the show said, ‘You know, that show really taught us something.’” She speculates that the potency of the exhibit stems from its directness. “It inspires as to what else you can do with printmaking,” she says. The exhibition’s exploration of the nature of life in Cuba today also helps lend it educational...