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...meantime, some best-selling Asian artists are content to poke fun at their foreign patrons. Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, gained international attention in the 1990s with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though...
...tired. But when my blockmates ran back from our dining hall to announce that a fight had broken out in the party hosted by the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (HSBSE), I leapt off of my bed in jeans and a sweatshirt to investigate. Seconds after we poked our heads out of our entryway into Lowell courtyard, a police officer was marching towards us. “You kids live in the dorm?” and when we nodded our assent, “You better get inside so that you don’t get mixed...
...world is found on the glossy surface of mass-produced bond paper.The novel is framed as the journal entries and correspondences of forty-something Staples employee Roger Thorpe. The office supply megastore is not an unusual choice for Coupland, who has made it a signature of his work to poke fun at the ubiquitous brand names that have swallowed the American landscape. (It will hardly be surprising if Coupland’s next venture is a “Grapes of Wrath”-like epic in which the smartass owners of a family business come to grips with...
...into bunched flowers. As she fingers a table runner, Chens muses on the history of her chosen fabric: “Who had sex on this bedspread? Tablecloth? Who had sex on this table?! Am I, like, covered in juices right now?” While roommates poke their heads in to check on progress, Chen declares her thoughts behind the pending creation to be “meta.” She hopes to highlight the theme of metropolis by covering the entire white skirt with cascades of black flowers, illustrating both the griminess and beauty of cities...
...senior co-captain Matt Hoff said. The scoring frenzy began just over 10 minutes after the break with Harvard sitting on a modest 1-0 lead. Hoff got things going by sending a cross from the right side that sliding freshman Alex Chi was able to poke in for the score. The goal was Chi’s second in as many games and his third of the year. Finding itself in a 2-0 hole, Cornell initiated a comeback, scoring a goal five minutes later. But any hopes of drawing even died when, two minutes later, Crimson junior John...