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Either alone or as the supervisor of his research teams, Edison amassed more than 1,000 patents, including one for the movie camera. That invention alone would have ensured his lasting renown, but it was only one of the many contributions Edison made to the now ubiquitous technological environment. He created the look and sound of contemporary life. He cared not at all about the fame and wealth he earned as long as he was allowed to get on with his work. He never lost the relentless desire to learn and to make things that had animated...
...need a graduate degree, just a smart idea. To do harm you don't need bad intentions, just a plodding arrogance. Those truisms are at the heart of the latest documentary enthraller from artful Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, A Short History of Time). Fred Leuchter won renown for devising more "humane" electric chairs, gallows and gas chambers. Now considered an expert in all aspects of state torture, Leuchter was hired by Ernst Zundel, a prominent denier of the Holocaust, to use his expertise to determine if the Nazi concentration camps had in fact been death camps. Leuchter went...
Both Artschwager and Bleckner are contemporary artists who have received a great degree of renown and acclaim. In recent years, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of Artschwagers work and the Guggenheim did the same for Bleckner. This exhibition at Harvard features a small selection of the recent work of each artist. Artschwagers six sculptures, all untitled, were constructed in 1995-1996. Bleckners works in oil on linen, also all untitled, were painted this year. Neither artist provides clues for the viewer as to how to interpret their enigmatic work...
...before any of her dancers were born. She gave more than 2,000 performances with the New York City Ballet before retiring from the stage in 1989, and in the process inspired such ballets as Balanchine's Diamonds, Chaconne and Mozartiana and Robbins' In Memory of... and won international renown as a ballerina of unique virtuosity, at once lyrical and daring. But even though she has staged Balanchine's works for such companies as the Paris Opera Ballet and St. Petersburg's Kirov Ballet, this is the first time she has taken her own group on tour...
...colors, and elemental textures, are held a constant string of rotating exhibitions. As a display space, the Carpenter Center functions as the typical university art gallery: Alternating between senior thesis displays, faculty shows, and periodic travelling exhibitions. In the past, these exhibits have included the work of such internationally-renown artists as Elizabeth Peyton and Kara Walker...