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Manhattan, 1978; the opening of a gallery show of Manny Farber's paintings. The art historian Jonathan Crary was there: "I was in a group around Manny when a young guy cut in, saying, 'I have to introduce myself, I'm one of your biggest fans,' and he went on with a meandering account of how Manny's writing had influenced him. Watching this total stranger, Manny stood there with a look of skeptical appraisal, until the guy concluded with, 'Your work has changed my life.' Manny replied convincingly, 'I doubt...
...anyone who has ever been to a movie or read a word of English. You'll learn how films should be seen, and how the language can be twisted, refined, expanded, improved, undercut, remade. (The frustrating news is that Negative Space represents only a small fraction of the Farber canon. The exhilarating news is that Robert Polito, one of the best of many writers on Manny, is preparing a multivolume set of the complete criticism, to be published by Harvard University Press...
...didn't demean the writing to which he brought so much passion and pain. "Criticism is very important, and difficult," he said in a 2004 interview. "I can't think of a better thing for a person to do." Surely no one did it better than Manny Farber...
...artist and a critic, he was the enemy of the ornate. Manny Farber, who died at 91 near San Diego, championed the beauty of small things in his collage work and the cramped brilliance of little men in tight spots in the B movies he loved--films that, through his writing, he helped raise from forgotten to fashionable. Son of a store owner in the mining town of Douglas, Ariz., he played football at Berkeley, then went East and upended movie criticism. Writing for the New Republic, the Nation, Time, Cavalier and a host of art and film journals, Farber...
...administrative space for the CTSC has not been decided yet, Nadler said that it will not be in Allston, where planning for science complexes is underway.“Conquering human illness now becomes the challenge for Harvard,” Nadler said. “Not for Dana Farber where I live, but for Harvard.”Nadler added with a chuckle that, upon learning of the news last week, Faust reportedly bought a bottle of champagne and sent it in a cab to Longwood for Flier.—Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached...