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...Balthus is the biography of the mysterious subject, "a painter of whom nothing is known." These figures are always attractive to biographers, who feel that they get to reveal the figure behind the curtain. Balthus was an enigmatic contemporary artist most noted for his highly sexualized portraits of young girls. His paintings, which often featured sadomasochistic imagery, were deemed so scandalous during their debut in 1934 that one was removed from its public display in Paris...
...Burnout is not a medical term, which complicates the process of gathering exact statistics on burnout. Conversations with students, though, reveal that the feeling is widespread at Harvard...
...anonymous door is slowly pushed aside to reveal a slightly colder atmosphere. The chill resides not only in the depressed temperature but also in the stasis of the objects, the artificial lighting. You are now inside the Fogg Art Museum cold storage facility. Located in the basement of the museum, cold storage is not only a repository for the leftover masterpieces of the Fogg's ever-burgeoning collection, but is also the surrogate home of Mark Rothko's mythical Harvard murals. Unlike its fellow occupants, the Rothko murals, wrapped twice over in heavy, light-blocking plastic, have emerged only...
...refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything that I've ever seen in American theater (the only comparison I can make is to 1995's The Fifth Element--and that, of course, was made...
Bernstein's brilliant melodies coupled with Stephen Sondheim's moving lyrics tell a story of injustice, poverty, crime and, yes, stereotype. But that story is intentionally told to reveal the assumptions inherent in society, to point them out to the audience in order to combat them, not to perpetuate them, as the Amherst petition's signers would have us believe...