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...businesses. Lumen Eclipse co-founder Rory P. Keohane said that because the Square attracts heavy traffic and upholds a tradition of street performance, it makes for an ideal place to display art in a different environment. “There’s a lack of outlets for this medium outside of the art gallery, where it’s often only people who are aware of the medium that see it,” Keohane said. “We wanted to make an outlet in a public venue where artists could display their work...
...means nothing." That presents the curators of a new exhibition of Dadaism with a wonderful opportunity: to define the undefinable through the remarkably varied work the Dadaists produced. And produce the Dadaists did - collages, letters, manifestos, music, paintings, posters, photographs, sculptures, textiles, typography and more. They had no common medium and no particular mission, simply a dedication to spontaneity, chaos, innovation and nonsense. Though Dada burned out in less than a decade, it was hugely influential and continues to resonate in the work of such controversial artists as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Robert Rauschenberg. And that legacy...
...development of character and theme. Vaginal-like openings appear in such forms as branches being pushed aside or a cut on someone's foot. Guns and serpents make for opposing sexual symbolism. While such imagery has been used before, Burns smartly applies them in ways unique to the medium, integrating them into the very design of the book...
...initial concert outlay. The current HCC had $30,000 to work with. While we understand that the UC is beholden to the needs of student groups—currently 67 percent is set aside for funding—if the council were to cut back on pursuing more medium-sized social events, like last year’s failed Havana on the Harbor and the Springfest After Party, it could parlay that money into an even bigger concert performance.Of the countless campaigns taken on by the UC every year, little else—if anything—garners as much...
...center of the drawing that is attached to none of the dancers.The elegantly extended hand springs out of nowhere, but it is crucial to the overall balance of the composition.We moved next to examine a pair of pastels that demonstrated how Degas could utilize the same medium in very different ways. The use of the pastel in “Two Dancers Entering the Stage” was “so free, so energetic,” Wolohojian says, contrasting with its velvety, lusher application in “Chanteuse de Café.”Wolohojian also describes...