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...Modern Art sfmoma.org, from May 13 to Aug. 13, gives Western audiences a chance to discover how the Japanese see themselves. The atom bomb, Americanization, urbanization and the postwar rebuilding of Japan all figure prominently in Skin of the Nation, which collects some of the 76-year-old master's most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with...
...BREAK Raised in Oakland, Calif., Lappé studied education at Brown University and spent a year teaching history in South Africa. She earned a master's degree in economic and political development from Columbia University, turning her thesis into a book about the root causes of hunger and poverty, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her mom. "Globally, we're producing enough food not only to be well fed but to get chubby," says Lappé. "If more citizens rather than corporations had a say in decisions being made about our food, there wouldn...
...profit organization devoted to public housing with offices around the country, says the city has been supportive of the relocation. “The city has invested an enormous amount of time and resources in thinking about this and how it dovetails with Harvard’s master plan,” she says. And in interviews with tenants, it appears that the University may have finally made a satisfying offer.“I’m fine with it. It’s not that far away,” Soeun says...
...when we find bassist Flea looking completely out of his element in a ’50s dark suit, playing an enormous double bass. The look on his face suggests that the two-piece is a bit more confining than his more typical strategically-placed tube sock, but the master of the funky electric bass looks like he’s having the time of his life playing the big old instrument. The video for “Dani California” basically seems like a chance for the Chili Peppers to clown around expensively on camera, and the results...
Katherine S. Wong ’07 knows the difference between a Vandercook press and a pearl platen. As the undergraduate press master at the Bow and Arrow Press, a student-run printing facility tucked under Adams House B-Entryway, Wong is fluent in the near-dead language of manual printmaking. But it’s not arcane terminology that attracts her to the craft. “Printmaking is a meditative activity,” says Wong, an aspiring neurologist and self-described laid-back Californian. “It takes a long time to do something relatively simple...