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...effort to comprehend Vu’s brightly-colored paintings of animal and human figures, the observer??trained in our hyperactive descriptive culture of tweets, texts, and Facebook updates—might be tempted to latch onto a single word—hallucinogenic, or even psychedelic. Yet, trying to capture Vu in one word does a disservice to her artistic complexity. As Vu’s thesis advisor, Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department professor Andrew Beattie, says of the “miracle worlds” she paints: “They’re not cute...
...mural will undoubtedly disappear with the elements, but its creators say they hope any observer??s newfound curiosity in natural history won’t fade away with...
...What’s interesting is that the songs are all very different, unique, and identifiable, but somehow [Sondheim] managed to weave a story from them.” The cast consists of only five, unnamed characters—a young couple, an older couple, and a mysterious observer??who convene for one night at a penthouse cocktail party. There’s little dialogue. Single words, spoken by the observer, motivate the transitions from song to song. Fortunately, every actor in the cast is or has been a member of a Harvard a capella group, so they?...
...YORK, N.Y. – It was Monday morning—a little over a week after my first day at The New York Observer??and the interns were sitting around, waiting for the managing editor to arrive. But after an hour, there was no sign...
...until the bizarre, self-referential ending to 2006’s quirky “JPod.” But something has been lost in his latest work. In the humorless and melancholy “Gum Thief,” Coupland seems dangerously close to falling from his observer??s perch.In attempting to expand his literary palette into the genre of modern tragedy, Coupland has created a Frankenstein-esque fusion of his illustrious satirical past and his shaky dramatic future. Coupland writes his characters into a perpetual search for commiseration, for stability, and for an escape from...