Word: gate
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There's no shortage of outdoor sculpture in the U.S. Most of it just sits there sunning itself, pretty much unnoticed by the people who go by. Then there's Cloud Gate, by the artist Anish Kapoor, born in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and based in London. It's not just a work of art; it's a destination. Four years ago, it landed at Chicago's Millennium Park, where in no time it became an essential photo op. A fat, arching pillow of reflective steel, it's a giant fun-house mirror that bends people, clouds and the skyline into...
...Cloud Gate also distorts Kapoor a bit--at least in the U.S., where his complicated output is always in danger of being overwhelmed by this one singular sensation. You get a much firmer picture of him in "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," an indispensable show that runs through Sept. 7 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. Organized by Nicholas Baume, the ICA's chief curator, it brings 14 Kapoors dating from 1980 to the present into a single long gallery that's also something of a fun house, assuming that a fun house can be smart, subtle...
...doesn’t Mohammed live there? Reports and rumors I’d heard of police brutality he’d seen firsthand. He knew he was risking much more than I, who vaguely imagined a motorcade of black Tahoes would come screeching up to the prison gate, loosing a platoon of American soldiers, lawyers and diplomats who would demand my release. But arguing that local journalists who help us do our coverage know what they’re risking is like arguing that sweatshop workers are better off in a sweatshop than having no job at all. Where?...
...turns out, I did have it wrong. I forgot that in order to enter a gate, you first need to be outside of it. If there was one piece of advice I wish I had been given four years ago, it would be to leave Harvard once in a while, if only for a few hours into Boston, to return refreshed and with a little perspective. Whether I was riding the T to the end of the line just to see what was there (not much), shopping on Newbury Street or lining up for student rush tickets at Jordan Hall...
...library at 4 A.M., nothing seems very clear, least of all the “wisdom” that Dexter Gate suggests we should be gaining. Much of the competition for success, however students define it, seems to lead towards post-graduation plans. For 58 percent of men and 43 percent of women graduating from Harvard, that means finance or consulting...