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According to a coterie of artists, Harvard Square desperately needs “reclaiming.” So the area between Holyoke Center’s facade and the awning of Au Bon Pain will soon be filled by an artistic installation created by the Reclamation Artists (RA), a Boston-based group of professional artists and architects. In collaboration with Harvard students, the group of artists will install NEST, a public sculpture, on one of the Square’s most prominent buildings, the Holyoke Center...
...mission of RA is reclaiming a site in order to tell its story is . Typically working on neglected or endangered land, RA installs public artwork that call attention to the urban landscape and how city-dwellers shape, inhabit, neglect or enhance it. The group formed in 1990 and has built 12 major projects in the area from the Muddy River, to Government Center Plaza to Somerville’s Mystic River shoreline. “It’s a playground for artists to make statements without worrying about selling pieces. It’s about ideas...
...RA was commissioned by the Office for the Arts (OFA) at Harvard and was invited as the Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artists. “The OFA sponsors public art projects in order to engage students in exploring art making for a public site through dialogue and/or collaboration with the participating artists and to bring this work to the Harvard and Cambridge communities,” explains Teil Silverstein, manager of Public...
...Around the World in Eighty Days," Welles sheepishly or puckishly describes himself as "one of the least punctual of mortals ... who can?t read time tables, wind watches or get out of bed.") In "Theatre of the Imagination," an engrossing radio tribute on the 50th anniversary of the Mercury ra-dio program, Richard Wilson says he can?t remember a Mercury play that opened on schedule. "Radio was the only medium that imposed a discipline that Orson would recognize," Wilson says. "And that was the clock. When it came time for ?The Mercury? to go on the air, there...
...show emphasizes this fatal weakness. The assorted colleges attended by “Undergrads’” four main characters comply with only the shallowest stereotypes about post-high school institutions. Gimpy, a student at Tekerson Tech, spends his time playing juvenile pranks on his RA and ordering around his overweight, bespectacled followers. Nitz, an apathetic whiner, and Cal, an airheaded hedonist, attend State U. Rocko, a “maladjusted, underachieving” jock with alcohol issues, attends (you guessed it!) a community college...