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Burns discussed and showed clips from his new film “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” Friday in Sanders Theater to kick-off Harvard’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of Roosevelt’s birth. Rossevelt graduated from the College...
...gratuitous attempt at gross-out humor that sits bizarrely with the film’s kitschy romantic storyline. Nick’s bandmates, who are all gay, are possibly the most offensive of the bunch, obsessing over appearances and failing to display any emotional depth. For a film so concerned with what its characters like, it boggles the mind that Nick and Norah choose such awful friends. But it makes sense given how inconsistent their personalities are. Norah is desperate not to be seen as the spoiled daughter of a famous music-producer father, but she is happy...
...shown this past weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) with commentary from Robinson, investigates the much-examined Warhol clique from a personal, fresh perspective, exploring the inner machinations of the Factory. Weaving intimate interviews of aging Factory members with excerpts from Williams’ striking films, Robinson tells the story of a creative young man denied the approval of his dominating mother due to his homosexuality and betrayed by Warhol’s Machiavellian manipulation of the boy’s talent and love. Instead of expanding the idea of Andy Warhol as an icon, Robinson delves into...
...attempt to address issues that concern us today, the Visiting Faculty Exhibit at the Carpenter Center, on display through October 23, combines digitally altered stills, free-standing sculptures, dark animations, and an interpretation of a 1976 film. It is, in the words of special projects manager Tracy Blanchard, a show that “contemplates the intersections between contemporary art and contemporary technologies to address contemporary concerns...
While Halpern’s art was influenced by contemporary concerns from the outset and Davis says that her sculpture only reflected modern day issues, Biggers found inspiration in the 1976 film “Network,” a movie that portrays the pursuit of power in American television, and from which he remade three scenes...