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...Volver. After accepting a Globe for his NBC show 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin praised an indie he had no part of, Half Nelson, backstage. The only person to stand up for big-budget multiplex-seat-filling films was Ben Stiller, who plugged his blockbuster Christmas movie Night at the Museum. Thank God someone remembered what this night is all about...
...sculpture can't. Here the lens dissembles as much as it documents, stretching "the camera never lies" maxim to breaking point. Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang"). If Andrew's silken surfaces seduce...
...fact a 50 year period,” he said. “It’s much, much more informative than a traditional master plan.” Last fall, the University submitted project notification forms for the science complex and contemporary art museum to the BRA for review. According to BRA Senior Project Manager Gerald Autler, the BRA will give Harvard later this week a scoping determination—a document that reviews the impact of construction on parking and road control issues. If the University meets all of the requirements, it could begin to lay the foundation...
...Interest in these items has grown tenfold in the past three years," says David Morsa, manager of the design store De Vera, which sells horns, glass insects and other artifacts befitting a zoologist's parlor. Tellingly, Morsa's title is curator, as if the store were a natural history museum. Some items are displayed in original condition, like the taxidermy eland that hangs behind the cash register at John Derian Co., an East Village boutique devoted to sea sponges, shells and other stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors...
...Homer At Homer, a home-furnishings store near the Whitney Museum of American Art, an anatomically correct lobster, hand-carved from resin, has movable parts. tel: (1-212) 744-7705; www.homerdesign.com...