Word: mural
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...those who can't wait for its tour of Sydney and Brisbane next year, there's Gregory's cleverly designed large-format book - as blocky as one of Arkley's hand-sprayed chairs. He'd surely approve. As his studio notebooks - and disco-colored De Stijl installation Muzak Mural-Chair Tableau, 1980-81 - attest, Arkley's vision couldn't be contained by the gallery wall. At various times he envisaged a home handyman show, inspired by the hardware stores near where he lived in suburban Oakleigh, and even started to design his own limited-edition furniture and crockery. Arkley...
...Klee, and if the book has a fault, it's that it stints on his formative punk years in the '70s and '80s, assuming 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...
...August, just before students began to arrive on campus, an unusual piece of graffiti appeared on Cowperwaithe Street. Months before, a series of murals had been painted on the construction panels near Mather and Dunster Houses. One panel—designed by Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, who is also a Crimson Arts executive—featured four images of Mather House painted in psychedelic colors, in the style of Andy Warhol. Someone decided to paint a message across this panel. It read: “That’s Right Kids, Andy Warhol...
...lack in idiosyncrasy it more than makes up for in its professionalism of production. The sumptuous colors and sophisticated light effects are worthy of a top Hollywood cinematographer. In one memorable scene, Noor chases a group of white horses into a dark, abandoned palace where she comes upon giant mural of a winged lion. We are as startled...
...Fund to discuss the store’s appearance. “They’re a chain, which is not great for the Square, but their signage appears to not be too obtrusive,” Nathans said. The Fund has encouraged American Apparel to paint a mural on the blank side of the building facing Church Street, she said. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...