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...whirlwind tour of Pyongyang. Kim Il Sung, the late Great Leader, is still the dominant figure in the intense cult of personality that is North Korea. His image is everywhere, most prominently on an overlook where a gigantic bronze statue stands in front of the Korean Revolution Museum. After we boarded the buses, a group of about 40 North Koreans walked up and made their way to the statue. We were just about to leave, but again there was a journalists' revolt. A few of us sprinted off the bus to get a better look at the scene unfolding before...
...Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames on the stiff formalities of the British middle classes of the time. "The vistas of polished furniture," he writes, "turned a family home into a deserted museum, with a few partly colonised rooms where people slept alone, read and bathed alone, and hung their clothes in their private wardrobes along with their emotions, hopes and dreams...
...tier students, universities have begun to compete in an arms race over facilities. Our beloved Harvard is of course no exception. From Lamont Café, where students can acquire the caffeine they need to continue the cycle of self-destructive study habits (without even going outside!), to the Fogg Museum, where students are only a short walk away from being able to stab a priceless piece of art in brief spurt of psychological madness, our campus’s facilities shine. However, Harvard outdoes its peers by far with its river housing: Just two weeks ago, for example, Winthrop House?...
...Moholy-Nagy also proposed an environmentally conscientious approach to architecture, one that seems particularly prescient today.Moholy-Nagy also had a contentious relationship with Harvard. Architect Walter Gropius persuaded her to donate the seminal kinetic sculpture “Light-Space Modulator” to Harvard’s Fogg museum. Her husband, the prominent Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, created the piece. Moholy-Nagy was consistently troubled by its preservation and attempts by the museum’s curators to make a working replica to avoid damage to the original. The object files for the sculpture, currently in the Busch...
...dirt and stall during their final day of shooting. But like the title of Franco Sacchi’s and Robert Caputo’s new documentary says, “This Is Nollywood.”The film was screened earlier this month at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts during their annual African Film Festival. It follows Emeruwa through the completion of “Check Point.” Emeruwa’s film was shot in 11 days, a staggering number in an industry where films are usually shot in five. Sacchi, an African-born member...