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...deposit slip, sign that," his wife Elizabeth wrote in her memoir. Bill Clinton's old strategist James Carville marveled at the time that it was the best stump speech he had ever heard. On Salon, Peter Dizikes predicted, "Before too long, the Edwards speech could be like a museum exhibit that political tourists flock to see before it closes...
...said Wilson, whose book “The Ants” won him his second Pulitzer in 1991. At a discussion following the film, entitled “The Naturalist,” panelists spoke about their experiences in their respective fields. The event was organized by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) to raise awareness about the fields available in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB). “There’s so much out there that we really don’t know about until we immerse ourselves in the situation,” said Anna Marie...
...Chinese capital. New York-based Paul Notzold recently traveled to Beijing, where he used L.A.S.E.R. Tag to create a kind of performance art, encouraging pedestrians to send text messages to a central phone hooked up to his laptop. The text messages were then projected onto the Millennium Art Museum. "I was tentative about putting up unsanctioned messages on buildings, because of the government," Notzold says. "There were your typical radio shout-outs, and there were also some statements that could be kind of activist protest statements." The event took place without incident...
...Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” in Smell-O-Vision.Smell-O-Vision is a concept that combines the release of scents with the viewing of a film to create a more complete sensory experience. Brattle Film Foundation Creative Director Ned R. Hinkle and Boston Children’s Museum Community Program Coordinator Megan L. Dickers collaborated to bring the event to the Brattle.Hinkle says he hopes their approach will provide a novel twist to a well loved film.“A lot of people have done sing-along shows and things like that,” says Hinkle...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently received a rare and unusual donation, including a paint-spattered hat, a pair of shoes, and a ladder. In addition to these objects, the gift included materials like brushes, paints, models, and preliminary works that once belonged to the influential Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman’s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which...