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...endless quest to bring you what's new and cool, bold not old, in Harvard Art, Fifteen Minutes takes a whirlwind tour of the Harvard graffiti scene...
...looking for more multicultural graffiti, Bolyston Hall breaks no language barriers. Instead, the name "Matt Pykolski" looms large in the men's bathroom. Further investigation finds "Matt Pykolski Wuz Heir" decorating the staircase in Sever Hall. Suspiciously, no date is featured. After numerous phone calls to the would- be artist receive no response, the case is dismissed as someone "catching fame," as grafitti connoisseurs call...
...finest example of "catching fame" so far is found in the Adams House Tunnels. But that is art, not graffiti, you might protest, and you would be right. Our reference is not to the three-year old murals on the walls, but to their more recent alterations. An unidentified artiste has used silver spray paint and a fine eye to modify some of the inscriptions so that "Hierarchy Presupposes Identity" now reads "Hierarchy Be Identity." "Be Cool" and "Power to the People 'Ya Gotta Believe" are entirely new shimmering wall-art maxims. Inquiries about the additions around Adams House have...
...judges could possibly have been thinking. For Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy of guilty glee...
...People here would rather brag about the number of dead trees on library shelves than laud the live ones that turn color outside. The trees that do eke out an existence here have a gritty urban sensibility. They're A Tree Grows in Brooklyn trees, struggling against pollution and graffiti; noble California redwoods or wild New Hampshire oaks they...