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...June The Fogg Art Museum acquired a new art collection that included paintings by Degas, Cezanne, Renoir and Picasso...
...task, which is to show what kinds of art were being made at the last turn of the century, when the idea of modernism in culture was just forming, and when some of the most admired artists bore names you'd hardly recognize today--not Cezanne, Mondrian, Picasso, but Boldini, Carolus-Duran, Zorn, Sorolla, Vrubel, Toorop and Pellizza da Volpedo...
...these and other reasons, the Guggenheim show entails dramatic reversals of fortune. Certain artists had to be included for what they did long after 1900--not for what they were at the time. Picasso, for instance: Would he be remembered if he'd died at age 19, known only for his moderately promising pastiches of older artists? Unlikely. But the idea of Picasso's being unknown or not much good seems such a contradiction in terms that we have real difficulty imagining...
...measure of creative people's achievement when their success allows them to be known by one name (Picasso, Yanni). But a musician from Minneapolis, Minn., did those titans one better, insisting that he be referred to only as an unpronounceable hieroglyphic. Since 1993, the man born PRINCE Rogers Nelson has refused to use his given name to protest the terms of his recording contract. Last week, however, the singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead...
...equate a few cushions in the Loeb Ex with the two-century-long death of interesting dramatic work in England would be somewhat overstating the point. The problem that Picasso's original seating design highlights is not an absence of creative talent in the Harvard theater scene. Rather, it highlights an absence of exposure. Like almost any activity at any university, undergraduate theater at Harvard has a fairly static collection of adherents. The same set of people see most of the shows on campus-and they are the same set of people who help produce (or are close friends with...