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...Museum of Useful Things 49 Brattle Street (617 )576-3322 Aluminum 3-ring binder, $29.50. Take notes, then chuck it at the kid talking on his cell phone during lecture...
...going to become best friends with Kelly Clarkson this summer. She, touring Europe, would come into the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and in her cheeriest tone, normally reserved for Proactiv skin care commercials, and ask me all about “transcultural communication networks between antiquity and contemporary international art.”I was supposed to find a charming yet rugged Greek art student. We would fall madly in love over freddo cappuccino and cigarettes in the Agora. His father would preferably own a yacht, which he would sail to Cambridge. My friends would be impressed.I...
...name from the local Bugun tribe--in May, but the find had to be vetted by the scientific community before it became official. Since the species is so rare, Athreya did not want to take the usual tack: killing a specimen, stuffing it, then shipping it off to a museum. Instead, he took feathers and pictures and recorded the birds' song before releasing them, so that scientists could verify his claim. For Athreya, it was a triumph. He first saw the species in 1995 but didn't spot it again until last year. "I began to doubt what...
...region has plenty more in store for the fall and winter. Here's our pick of three must-see shows: TAIPEI: Taipei's Biennial - held from Nov. 4 this year to Feb. 25, 2007 - began life as a purely local exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum but soon blossomed into an international event. Since 2000, it has been jointly curated by two curators - one a Taiwan national, the other from overseas. This has led to the occasional spat, with the Taiwan curator at the 2005 event having what one official diplomatically described as "communication problems" with her Belgian curating...
...deep knowledge of all things Larry Summers.An efficient Italian with shocking dark curly hair, Mario Biagoli is on leave in the fall. So teaching Renaissance science is left to a visiting lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, Paolo Galluzzi; he comes to Harvard from the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, where he is collaborating with the Uffizi Gallery on an exhibit on Leonardo da Vinci. Coincidentally enough, it’s the subject of his course, History of Science 111v, “Leonardo da Vinci: The Science...