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Being able to share a bed with someone is one of the major freedoms involved in life on campus. To that end, ingenious undergrads here have attempted to work around physical limitations. Regulation beds have been enlarged using cinderblocks and plywood. Second mattresses have been adjoined. Larger mattresses and even futons are bought in order to gain a little extra width. Clearly Harvard does not satisfy its students with its bedding...
...ance de Shadow II (bleu)” by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, a room saturated with the color blue whose lights turn on as the viewer passes by), or direct participation (as in “Falha” by Renata Lucas, a grid of plywood sheets that can be rearranged to create a temporary stage, or another structure). One of the most thematically successful pieces is Mario Ybarra Jr.’s “Sweeney Tate,” a room containing a re-creation of a barbershop. Teeth are framed on the wall outside, with barbershop...
...little sugar in it ... add a little water, and you can paint all day." So said American folk artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth, who got his start in mud painting as a toddler, accompanying his healer mom through the Alabama woods. Using his fingers as a brush, plywood as canvas, and sugar, berries and turnip greens for color and texture, Sudduth, a star of the folk-art explosion of the 1980s, painted his life--his dog, farm animals and, after traveling, the U.S. Capitol. Sudduth's works are in the permanent collections of a number of museums and the Smithsonian...
...moved by what he saw there in 1968 that he decided to launch the Poor People's March on Washington from Marks. Sammie Mae Henley lived on Cotton Street in 1968 and still lives there today, surviving on a $620 a month Social Security check, sitting on the plywood porch of the same tumbledown shack that King visited 39 years ago. She is 80, with gunmetal-gray hair pulled back in a bun and eyes that are warm and rheumy, blinking at the politician and the reporters. "You are not 80 years old!" Edwards hollered at her. "You are looking...
...videos of environmental dysfunction play; in the secret gardens of Palazzo Zenobio, where Callum Morton's recreation of his demolished childhood home gives off good-humored gusts of dry ice; and in the Giardini di Castello, where Daniel von Sturmer's video installations spill across the wave-like plywood plinth of the shed-like pavilion...