Word: painting
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...repair five pieces from a mural cycle sent by Mark Rothko to Harvard in the 1960s. The murals, which were one of only three made, were displayed for almost a quarter of a century in the penthouse of the Holyoke Center. But overexposure to sun on this light-sensitive paint caused the mural’s color to dramatically change—the vivid crimsons turned into tepid blues. As a result, these pieces are now displayed only once every decade. Although many thought Rothko’s murals were irreparably damaged, Senior Conservation Scientist at the Straus Center Narayan...
...candor and valued his openness to sexual habits and preferences. Unfortunately, attempts at sexual honesty backfire when they resort to reductive characterizations of gender niches. I would have been satisfied with a clear HIV test, a bag of condoms, and a simple, professional goodbye. In attempts to paint sex as something to be feared—and men as untrustworthy—the least likely people can find themselves in the doghouse...
...Overwintering”, a man looking at “all the lovely things of this world” looks first at apples. Yet this combination of the everyday and the American is lost in an endless barrage of imagery that typically rings false. If a first rule of paint-by-numbers poetry is distinctive images, Nilsson appears to have taken this rule to heart, and too dramatically at that. Her images are certainly distinctive—from “The Procures,” “a mountain sitting in a fair sky, girls / of gentle birth...
...Dartmouth was led down low by sophomore Brittney Smith, who converted seemingly every chance she had in the paint and had Harvard’s forwards in foul trouble early and throughout. Smith finished with 19 points, nine rebounds, and two blocks in a dominant low-post effort. Co-captain Koren Schram chipped in 18 points...
...Green shot 41 percent from the field and had three players in double figures. 36 of the team’s 64 points came in the paint, as Dartmouth was able to outmuscle the Crimson down low. The Big Green was consistently able to use its athleticism to find holes in the Harvard zone, leading to a number of easy baskets...