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...meme’ stems from the Greek word, mimema, defined as “something imitated.” It is a cultural unit as basic to our thoughts and ideas as a gene is to our biological makeup. Like performance art, it survives by being transferred from person to person, but evolving as it does. It is a word that easily applies to a gallery that traffics ideas more so than saleable products. Yet the owners insist that the cultural connotations of the Gallery’s name were an afterthought. It is exactly this kind of accidental hipness...
...bankruptcy in 2000; Harris even fled to Africa to avoid mounting debt. Despite his disappearance, his many endeavors have not gone unnoticed, thanks to American filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her latest documentary, “We Live in Public.” Timoner presented the film in person last week at the Brattle Theatre...
Timoner—the only person to win two Grand Jury awards at Sundance in one category (documentary)—was initially unsure about the venture when Harris contacted her. “I didn’t know what the heck he was talking about when he called me to ‘document cultural history,’” Timoner recalls. “He wouldn’t tell...
...director was in the process of another film at the time, but as soon as she saw the warehouse in person, she was sold. “I didn’t know what it was exactly, but that it should be documented,” she says. Not only did the residents sleep in cubicles and watch footage of each other having sex and defecating, they also were subject to periodic interrogations in a white square room, where some of the film’s most moving and vulnerable scenes take place here...
Nobel Prize-winning biologist James D. Watson and Pulitzer Prize-winning Biology Professor Edward O. Wilson spoke in front of a nearly 1,000-person audience in Sanders Theatre yesterday, marking the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species...