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...Spiegelman's "Maus" helped shift public perception of comicbooks away from mere juvenilia. Now he's trying to push it back down the age ladder again. Co-edited with his wife, Francoise Mouly, Spiegelman has produced "Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids," a comicbook for children, or more accurately, a delightful album of sophisticated, G-rated comix...
...audience enters the black box theater and discovers it filled with fog. A couple of large, industrial-looking contraptions sit on the floor. These structures, which vaguely resemble natural forms, and throughout the performance will morph into laboratories and cabaret-club walls, are lit from the inside with ghostly colored lights. The audience can’t make sense of any of it, but knows they are somewhere else...
REEL READERS Programs that scan video for human faces, even those that are turned away or poorly lit, then track a single face through multiple video images...
...scent of fragrant North African oils sweetens an otherwise drab, poorly lit room of wood-paneled walls and carpeted floors. As arrivals at Italy?s Islamic Cultural Institute perform traditional pre-prayer handwashings, three young men lounge on a nearby stretch of carpet, leaning in toward each other to speak in hushed voices...
...entrance to Leverett House, hoping to find someone to swipe me in. It was dark. I was a sophomore, just about to turn 19. A young girl on the streets, with music blaring out of Quincy House and small groups passing by under the streetlights, their faces oddly lit and eyes downcast. That was the scene. That’s when it happened. I asked a passer-by to swipe me in. She looked at me and asked, “Can I see your...