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Tempers flared last Thursday night in Agassiz Theatre as participants in the First-year Arts Program (FAP) discussed issues like the "Piss Christ" exhibit at the NEA, a photograph of a crucifix dipped in urine...
...only hope that the rest of my time here at Harvard will be as good as this week has been," said Gabriella N. Skirnick '99, a member of a FAP group which prepared an exhibit at the Carpenter Center...
Museums are often associated with bygone periods and remote artifacts--Renaissance paintings, Egyptian sarcophagi, the fossilized bones of velociraptors. Because the Rock Hall (as Clevelanders call it) focuses on music that has always been identified with rebellious youth culture, its exhibits seem forever fresh, bursting with the antiestablishment adolescent energy of the past five decades. Among the first things a visitor walking into the museum sees are huge black-and-white photos of antirock protests through the years, from crowds burning Beatles records to police protesting rapper Ice-T's lyrics. Barrie is a passionate advocate of freedom of expression...
Along with the music, visitors will get an education. The museum places heavy emphasis on rock's roots. One exhibit, called "The Beat Goes On," consists of several touch-screen computers showing video clips of rockers along with the performers who influenced them--Chuck Berry, for example, is linked with saxophonist Louis Jordan. Other exhibits are devoted to important rock precursors, such as blues greats Lead Belly and Howlin' Wolf. There are plenty of intriguing curios on display as well--such as the Who drummer Keith Moon's grade school report card, saying he "is inclined to play the fool...
...roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the second most common cause of death among young adults in North America, after car wrecks. Fifteen percent of Americans have had a clinical anxiety disorder. And, pathological, even murderous alienation is a hallmark of our time. In that sense, the Unabomber is Exhibit A in his own argument...