Word: muralism
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...movies at the Loews Theatre in Harvard Square seem to change quite rarely, the posters that adorn the theater’s façade change even less. These posters, one of Marilyn Monroe, and one an ad for Casablanca, are part of a mural which decorates the entire front of the theater. It was done by Joshua Winer, a 1986 graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the top while he was still a student here, the bottom, several years later. If you look up, above the ticket window and the marquee, you will see what...
Before you leave U Street, take some time to wander. You might stumble across something unexpected, like a 32-ft. Duke Ellington mural, or eye-catching, like the glassware in Go Mama Go!, at 1809 14th Street. In fact, more than 100 businesses have opened during the past two years--a sure sign that U is back...
Other booths featured crafts projects aimed at building community, such as make-your-own friendship bracelets, or painting tiles to be displayed in a community mural...
Then there are the visual art works themselves. The works by Klimt, almost certainly the most familiar pieces, are placed near the entrance. Among these, the “Jursiprudence” photo mural may be the most inventive and unusual...
...original, one of Klimt’s infamous “faculty paintings” scorned by the very faculty that commissioned them, was destroyed in 1945 by retreating Nazis to keep it from falling into enemy hands. A digitized photograph of the original mural from the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna is the source of the Busch-Reisinger’s photo mural. The reproduction, about the same size as Klimt’s original, is a unique approximation of Klimt’s vision of grandeur...