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...Renoir, Whistler and Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas (1834--1917) has inspired few legends and has never come to seem larger than life or as colorful as his art. In Edgar Degas: Life and Work (Rizzoli; 343 pages; $70), British Critic Denys Sutton shows why such comparative obscurity would have suited his subject perfectly. Degas was a reserved, withdrawn soul who poured most of his energies into painting and drawing. There were rumors that the artist, a life-long bachelor, did not care much for women. The evidence, Sutton decides, is inconclusive. But look at the pictures this sumptuous book provides...
...combined his life-long passion for art with the field of cellular biology to help develop a computer-generated animation that explains the functioning of a cell...
Michael T. Laub, now an assistant professor of biology at MIT, says Garwin’s colleagues admired her choice to follow through on a life-long dream...
...Stefanie L. Botelho ’07, a government concentrator from Lowell House who worked on the business staffs of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The two will serve life-long terms as the chief organizers for the class after graduation. As secretary, Habib will be responsible for preparing class notes and keeping track of classmates. Botelho will be in charge of keeping track of finances and raising funds for class parties and activities. “The secretary...
...everyone has read Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar's Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (1997). As they documented, it was his 1981 mural Primitive, named after a song by The Cramps, that saw Arkley paint his way from an abstract to a figurative style. Perhaps it was his life-long love of doodling that drew him to the airbrush, but this isn't something the new book makes clear. Instead, Gregory (and Smith in the show) bring new insights to Arkley's work by exploring the carnival theme. From his Zappo heads to his aborted 1985 exhibition of masked...