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Harvard choreographers have competed on a national level—last year, Yamaguchi and Tanhehco qualified for the American College Dance Festival. Tanhehco’s piece made it to the national gala performance and was nominated for the best choreography award...
...symposium was officially called “New Frontiers in Chemical Physics” but the attendees quickly nicknamed it “Dudfest 2002.” The many weekend events, which included discussions on chemical physics and the role of science in society, also featured a gala banquet at the Museum of Science in Boston on Saturday night...
...adjoining bedroom walls of Surrealist poet Paul Eluard's house outside Paris. The show reunites the long-separated panels for the first time, to tantalize us with apparent riddles about the ménage à trois in which Ernst and Eluard were engaged with Eluard's beautiful wife Gala. One panel depicts a hand clutching a ball and extending through a window, its fingers twisted into what could be a woman's - Gala's? - torso. The other depicts a row of almost military-looking plants that might represent Ernst and Eluard. "Surrealism never gives you the answer," observes Spies...
...Surrealism 1919-1944," however, lets Dali more than redeem himself by spot-lighting his seldom exhibited knockout of a picture from 1944, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up. It depicts a Venus-like Gala reclining nude above some rocks. Above her, two cinematic tigers leap out of a goldfish's mouth - and seemingly out of the canvas. It is so strikingly circus-like it seems almost to make sense...
...time the movement's members had fled Nazi-occupied France for exile in the U.S. in the 1940s, they were reverting to their old automatism, darkening their works, and starting to disperse. Dali, who had married Gala Eluard, was conspicuously excluded from their last hurrah, a big far-out exposition in New York in 1942. Too much of a publicity hound, Breton and the others felt. Dali's earlier The Lugubrious Game, in fact, is so over the top with explicit carnality and scatology that even his fellow Surrealists were shocked...