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...moon. What would seem to be a random series of unrelated acts of political satire, social commentary and spiritual meditation-and by artists from across the world, no less-are all, astonishingly, put under one roof and under the general rubric of "conceptualism." Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, is divided into ten sections, each a complete exhibition unto itself, containing a dazzling collection of photographs, sculptures and prints from 135 artists around the globe, both famous and unknown. Ambitious...
...College is scared of what we can all predict would result. In a 1928 report, after all, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, argued that students should never be allowed to control their housing for the same shameful reason: "Large communities tend towards cliques based on similarity of origin and upon wealth. Great masses of unorganized young men...are prone to superficial currents of thought and interest, to the detriment of the personal intellectual process that ought to dominate mature men seeking higher education...
...viewers to a precedent, the "ideal." The title Twice Born: Beauty is taken from one of Hegel's lectures on aesthetics called "Born of the Spirit and Born Again." In this lecture, he writes that the "forms of art, as the actualizing and unfolding of the beautiful, find their origin in the Idea itself...The consummation of the Idea as content appears therefore simultaneously as also the consummation of form...
Hungering for reevaluation of your preconceived ideas about the history of the dematerialization of the art object? GLOBAL CONCEPTUALISM: POINTS OF ORIGIN, 1950s-1980s really satisfies. The show opens at the List, 20 Ames St., on Oct. 24. For more information, call...
Bennett's The Madness of George III and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus both fit these critera. Shaffer's play was at the origin of Milos Foreman's Academy Award-winning film Amadeus, and has recently been staged on Broadway. Although The Madness of King George III came out as a movie in 1993, it has not been recently staged on Broadway. As such, Hood decided to direct The Madness of King George...