Word: rebellionã
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Despite his hippie breeding, de la Durantaye nonetheless learned certain bourgeois sports—like baseball and tennis—from his more traditional grandparents. Although he played baseball seriously, he quit in an “act of weird rebellion?? against his father, who had once seriously considered becoming a professional baseball player himself. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...entering Adams ArtSpace’s “Beautiful Rebellion?? exhibit, it’s easy to overlook the artistic value of the first piece—a protruding wall papered with skeletal structures of the pelvis that almost seems a part of the House’s typically alternative scenery. But a closer inspection of the wallpaper work reveals a concern with concealed desire and external influences on identity...
...Beautiful Rebellion?? does just that, in an aesthetically enticing display. From a grouping of picture frames etched with such phrases as “my autobiography began to seem suspicious” and “it must be so easy for you to pass” to a collection of mirrors angled to shine the light into writing “DUST” on the wall, the exhibit’s pieces, created by Harvard undergrads and local artists, break down everyday mediums to question our conceptions of identity...
...used to be about payola disguised as youth rebellion??now it’s not even about the videos. The New Yorker recently reported that the number of music videos on the channel that begot them dropped by a third between 1998 and 2000. Numbers aside, witness the atrocity that was the 2001 MTV Video Awards: The Spike Jonze-directed video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” was clearly shafted when “Lady Marmalade” was awarded best video of the year. Apparently not even the sight...