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...Coit has been producing portraits for the Minority Portrait Project since 2004, and looks to complete another 25 before he’s done. Coit, who studied math and computer science at Harvard, initially intended to pursue a career in tech-based venture capital but gave up halfway through the Internet bubble to become a painter. “I just really wanted to paint,” he says...
...next portrait in the Minority Portrait Project portrays former dean John Monro, will be unveiled at Phillip Brooks House on Oct. 16, and, on Nov. 10, a new portrait of President Drew Faust, also painted by Coit, will make its debut at the Schlessinger Library. “Drew hasn’t seen it yet,” Grindlay says. “It’s really great. It’s very, very successful...
...deals with this crucial point in American history over the course of 11 hours and nine episodes, and has been seen by more than 40 million viewers. “It chose us,” Burns says, in reference to the selection of Theodore Roosevelt for his latest project. “There’s always been that siren’s call to us, to what’s pristine.” While shooting earlier documentaries such as “The West” and “Lewis and Clark: The Journey...
...Last week, during the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed worries that financial problems in the United States might deter leaders from living up to pledges for the Millennium Development Project (MDP). For the U.S., it would certainly be impossible to fund two wars plus the bailout, and still help the poorest of the poor. And yet, the instinctual responses to catastrophe—protectionism, withdrawal from the international political and economic community, and decreased foreign aid—must be challenged. On the edge of a global recession lies the perfect opportunity...
...other words—it’s yours!” By presenting his documentary online, Moore has become one of the first big-name directors to challenge traditional notions of film distribution. Such munificence might be meaningful were the film anything more than a self-congratulatory vanity project. The documentary centers on the “Slacker Uprising,” Moore’s 2004 tour of college campuses in which he encouraged unregistered voters in battleground states to cast a ballot. With a host of celebrity friends, including R.E.M., Roseanne Barr, and Viggo Mortensen, Moore distributed...