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Walking into “Frank Stella 1958,” the special exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, reminded me of the surprise I got when I heard one of my friends, who plays guitar in a punk band, playing Mozart on a violin. It wasn’t that the delicate strains of the violin concerto were completely unrelated to the straight-up, snarling chords of his punk songs, nor even that one was necessarily better than the other. It was just that, man, I didn’t know he could do that...
...getting ahead of myself. To understand why the year 1958 (from which the more than 20 works in the show date) was a crucial one for Frank Stella, you need to know what he did in 1959. That year he made his famous “black paintings”—works that essentially consisted of geometric patterns of thin white lines set on black backgrounds...
...were actually thin strips of bare canvas showing through the gaps between stripes of black paint. Furthermore, the geometric pattern of lines—dubbed “deductive structure” by critics—was derived from the rectangle of the canvas, a frank acknowledgement of materiality directly opposed to traditional painting...
...while the Big Red shot 23-of-36 from the stripe, the most makes and attempts for a Harvard opponent this year. “It’s happened in our two losses—it’s the one common denominator,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “We couldn’t keep Yale off the free-throw line—the same thing [happened] tonight with Cornell. Both benches were frustrated by the officiating. Both benches felt that there were a lot of whistles. I think the players had a difficult...
...swingman Zach Martin tried unsuccessfully to connect from behind the arc.The Lions took advantage of Stehle’s absence by picking eight early points in the paint on two hooks and two layups. Columbia built a 14-6 lead heading into the second media timeout, forcing Harvard coach Frank Sullivan to bring Stehle back into the contest.“I think [Coach Sullivan] was just like, ‘If this is how we’re going to lose, this is how we’re going to lose. And if you’re going...