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...clay on the horizon. On a fellowship for “purposeful travel,” Hoy went to work in a health clinic for the Luo people. Through a group of women she met there, Hoy discovered the art of traditional Luo pottery, in which forms come directly from their age-old uses. Speaking to a small but enthusiastic crowd last Wednesday at the Office for the Arts ceramics studio in Allston, Hoy emphasized the challenges globalization presents to this art and its practitioners.“It was amazing how close everything was from land...
...Benjamin Britten’s opera of the same title, “Beau Travail” is no traditional war film. Scenes of the legionnaires, from training to doing laundry, are punctuated with dance sequences in a local nightclub. These competing rhythms form the pulse of the film, presenting Denis’ complex aesthetic.After “Beau Travail,” Denis went on to make “Trouble Every Day,” perhaps her most provocative and controversial film. A spin-off of the vampire genre—where the cliché of sucking blood...
...Internet] has changed the way people gain access to information and entertainment, and the actual content and form of information and entertainment,” says Jason A. Kaufman ’93. Kaufman, a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, recently taught a sociology course called “Media and the American Mind,” which studied American society through advertising, telecommunications, regulation, entertainment, and other forms of media. Kaufman says that as an Internet-based digital culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high...
...It’s now more and more possible to join a niche community that’s built around common taste in some esoteric form of cultural consumption,” Kaufman says. As the volume and variety of multimedia content available on any computer across the globe increases every day, artists within these enclaves gain the ability to distribute their work to anyone with a keyboard. “Rock bands are just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says...
...Despite Mugabe's threat to walk away from talks and form a government without the MDC, sources inside both the opposition and the ruling party have told TIME that the octogenarian strongman will soon have to yield to some opposition demands. "We believe that eventually a government will be formed because we can't continue without one," a top official of the ruling party, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME. "Obviously it will include our colleagues in MDC. We are just waiting for them to make up their minds so that we can kick-start the process of national...