Word: gardened
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...have been times when kinetic art - think of Marcel Duchamp's spinning bicycle wheel screwed to a stool, Alexander Calder's abstract mobiles or the self-destructing machines of Jean Tinguely - moved the art world. Recently, though, it has tended to be sidelined as the work of toymakers and garden-shed boffins, finding a warmer welcome in the science museum than the art gallery. That's no bad thing, to judge from "Fantastical Mechanisms - Machines Tell Stories," the biggest exhibition of its kind in Europe since the '60s, on show at the dashingly futuristic Phaeno science center in Wolfsburg, Germany...
...challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same time. The one major set change is seamless as two large doors open to replace a living room with a garden landscape.The talented cast fills Raasch’s set well, using both their voices and their gestures to bring Mozart’s story of seduction and betrayal to life. Don Alfonso, played by Jonathan G. Roberts ’09, plots a test of female loyalty, but he needs...
...piece “Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia.” For the piece, Claerbout selected a black-and-white photograph from the early 1930s portraying the opening of a kindergarten in Italy. In the original photograph, children, frozen in time, stand in a garden with two trees in their midst. But Claerbout replaced the still trees with superimposed footage of two trees gently blowing in the wind, creating a striking clash between the still and the moving that is made even more powerful by its reversal of real life, in which the children would be the active...
...sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden whooped and cheered from the moment Uno appeared with the other hounds on the night of Feb. 11, and he ahhrroooed right back, bouncing along, working the ring, his tail sending a draft through the hall. Judges, like all political professionals, are clear-eyed, hardheaded, immune to cute and charisma. Was there the curse of condescension toward a breed that has ranked among the top 10 most popular dogs in the U.S. for nearly a century? The saluki was elegant and urbane; the Plott hound tough and tireless. Dogs, however, are judged...
...Meanwhile, Texans for Obama is organizing a debate watching party at one of the city's legendary political watering holes. Over 400 self-styled Obamaniacs have signed up so far to gather at Scholz Garten, an old-style German beer garden near the capitol. It is a mythic place for Texas liberal Democrats - Davis said his activist parents hung out there 30 years ago - and many of the state's legendary progressives have gathered under the old pecan trees to weep in their beer and berate conservative Democrats and, later in the state's history, Republicans. It is the spot...