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...with what may be the only accurate definition: "Dada means nothing." That presents the curators of a new exhibition of Dadaism with a wonderful opportunity: to define the undefinable through the remarkably varied work the Dadaists produced. And produce the Dadaists did - collages, letters, manifestos, music, paintings, posters, photographs, sculptures, textiles, typography and more. They had no common medium and no particular mission, simply a dedication to spontaneity, chaos, innovation and nonsense. Though Dada burned out in less than a decade, it was hugely influential and continues to resonate in the work of such controversial artists as Damien Hirst, Jeff...
...comes across greatness where it is least expected; this time its true in terms of both location and content. Through the courtyard and tucked in the back of the Fogg museum is the Strauss Gallery, which is currently featuring “A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from the Carpenter Center Collection,” showcasing a collection in three parts of photographs amassed and until now collecting dust like most of the university’s gathering in a Harvard depository. Hidden from tourists and casual museum-goers only interested in the celebrity of Van Gogh?...
...sepia-tinted prairie photograph recalls turn-of-the-century daguerreotypes, and its focus—a laundry line—is a similarly archaic piece of technology. The liner notes reveal that Young’s atavistic tendencies extend to the studio: “Prairie” was recorded and mixed on analog equipment...
...that reason, “Prairie” seems stuck between times—neither belonging fully to the present nor the past—just like a photograph...
...wonder. The solar system most of us studied in school was a deceptively simple place. There were the sun, a few asteroids and comets and, as of 1930, when Clyde Tombaugh spotted Pluto on a telescopic photograph, nine planets. Memorizing those nine names has long been a childhood rite of passage, up there with learning to tie your shoes. Yes, Pluto was always an oddball: not only is it tiny (two-thirds the size of our moon), but it has a weird, elongated orbit that is tilted at a sharp angle to the plane the other planets inhabit. Still...