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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopeful optimist when it comes to the pure ideals of Harvard students. Just take a look at how many of our classmates spend their afternoons in Roxbury or Mattapan tutoring, teaching or running an after-school program. Students here are willing and eager to give of their minds and energies. As long as teaching remains just an extracurricular activity...
...first glance, it does not seem as though Richard Artschwagers sculptures and Ross Bleckners paintings belong in the same room. Artschwagers homage to packing crates and Bleckners images of Tetris-like biotic spheres do not look remotely alike or seem to address similar issues. It becomes apparent after a brief spin around the ground floor of the Carpenter Center that it is precisely in this unlikely juxtaposition that the interest of this exhibition lies. This contrast illuminates aspects of each artists work that would otherwise be overlooked...
...Perhaps we need none if we look long enough. After observing the monochrome nuggets squashed together and suffocating Bleckners canvases, no one would be surprised to discover that he is the president of the Community Research Initiative on AIDS. The bubbles themselves look like knots tied on a rope, but condensed, without any space between them. Covering the entire surface of a canvas, they begin to look organic, slimy, alive; indeed, they look like cells. The use of transparent color to isolate certain groups of cells relates directly to AIDS; the identification of certain vessels indicates foreigners, intruders within...
...Artschwagers sculptures look equally foreign; his wooden structures, built to resemble either furniture or boxes, would be highly unnatural in any environment. This commentary on interior and exterior (a la Rachel Whiteread), packaging and contents, and meaning in art, would be trite and dull if not for the sheer beauty and subtlety of the forms. There is a radiance and sheen to the light wood which fills these works with an uncanny ebullience and optimism. By carving out space where conventional forms would otherwise protrude, at the top of the bed, for instance, Artschwager complicates his works further. He negates...
Sweet and Lowdown marks Woody Allens thirtieth outing as a writer-director. This occasion makes it a worthwhile time to look back at the span of Allens accomplishments, a long list of movies that have inspired a love-him-or-hate-him divide among viewers. For those that fall into the first category, below is a list of five interesting but less-discussed Allen films that show both the range of his work and the consistent originality of his career (if youre new to Allen fandom, by all means start with Annie Hall). These titles have mostly fallen...