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...time, which can only be understood after the viewer passes time with Claerbout’s art.One of the earliest and most fascinating installations is the 1998 piece “Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia.” For the piece, Claerbout selected a black-and-white photograph from the early 1930s portraying the opening of a kindergarten in Italy. In the original photograph, children, frozen in time, stand in a garden with two trees in their midst. But Claerbout replaced the still trees with superimposed footage of two trees gently blowing in the wind, creating a striking...
...Hopi spirits—though spirits of a distinctly 20th century sort. Hopi katsina dolls—traditionally carved by Hopi Indians to share the stories of their ancestors—are telling their stories through a new medium: photography. Through Feb. 28, George Ducharme will be displaying a photographic study of his collection of katsina dolls in the Holyoke Center Exhibition Space. The dolls’ carvings are meant to represent katsina spirits, benevolent ancestral beings whom the Hopi believe can bring fertility and health to their native arid land. The carvings are given to children to teach them...
Krieger said he was inspired by an old photograph of the waterfront that showed perpendicular pathways connecting the popular tourist destination to the water...
...Lincoln Own Slaves? gamely and even-handedly answers the titular question?no?and many, many others (readers are supplied with Lincoln's worst photograph and least-funny joke), but it doesn't shed much light on the question of the Lincoln compulsion. For that you might turn to This Republic of Suffering (Knopf; 346 pages), Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust's new wrenching study of how the mass deaths of the Civil War changed America. At the time, Lincoln's death was fused with Jesus' in the popular imagination?people needed Lincoln to be more than human in order...
...photograph shown to jurors, Princess Diana sits between her two sisters in the backseat of a car, the three of them doubled over in laughter. Perhaps you can't remember the joke, the attorney suggests to the witness, Diana's eldest sister, the Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Aloof and understated throughout the day's proceedings, she breaks into a naughty grin: "I'm afraid...