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...Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Harvard Neighborhood Development (HAND)--will distribute art supplies next month to elementary school students who will create artwork based on their ethnic backgrounds. The Harvard students will then help collect the artwork and assemble each of the approximately 35,000 pieces into a large mural at Roxbury Community College...
...broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling is a rich deep blue, night sky. The car is designed for night, with lamps turned down, and a pianist plays show tunes. Too much good taste becomes bad taste, but this is just right...
Most Chinese nursery schools display a mural of young, cherubic children riding a dragon. The dragon represents China; the well-fed kids symbolize a prosperous future. But outside a primary school in Kai Kong, a factory town in Guangdong province, the traditional mural is decidedly modern. There isn't anything special about the dragon, but the fat children are carrying cameras, videocassette recorders and boom boxes...
...metaphor for Xinhua (New China), the Kai Kong mural is perfect. And no area in New China has taken more readily to Deng's economic freedoms than Guangdong, the province on the southeastern coast that borders Hong Kong. Famous for being shrewd businessmen, Guangdong's residents also have a long tradition of ignoring imperial edicts. Even today the province negotiates its tax remittances to Beijing, in part because the national government's ability to control various localities differs greatly depending on an area's wealth, strategic significance and the personal connections and acumen of its leaders...
...realizes that something is different about this production immediately upon walking into the theater space. The first play, Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine, suposedly takes place in 1776 St. Petersburg. However, surveying the neo-60's psychedelic murals that surround the stage one could have easily mistake the set for a Bangles sound-stage. For obvious reasons, the wall-size mural of a wizarded-out Mickey Mouse on a flying broom simply does not cut it as a Russian landscape...