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...Burgin is this year’s Sert Practitioner in the Arts at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Last week, Burgin installed his “different kind of image,” a single-channel video entitled “The Little House,” on view in the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery until April...
...project to Harvard. “It gives people access to a collection of videotapes which they otherwise would be unable to see,” Lambert-Beatty says. The layout of the exhibit plays off this idea in a very interesting way. The EVR exhibit, set in the Sert Gallery, appears something like your everyday movie rental store. The movies are stacked on shelves in uniform white cases with descriptions, and there are televisions and VCRs playing movies about the room. You can pick a movie and watch it there, or even check out two videos at a time...
...gallery, does he make a sound? As Ogden T. Ross ’75 and a room full of fellow art enthusiasts recently learned, the answer is yes—he does.After lively opening remarks by Mexican contemporary artist Pedro Reyes last Thursday, the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery reception was thronged with eager attendees, a concerned HUPD officer, and a number of local EMTs. And the aforementioned seesaw? It was the centerpiece of the show.With his installation “ad usum: To Be Used,” Reyes presents a collection of what he calls...
...Robinson, Jr., professor of architecture and urban design, emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), died on Sept. 16 at his Cambridge home. He was 92.Soltan first joined the GSD in 1959, when the dean at the time and another illustrious modernist, Josep Lluís Sert, invited him as a visiting critic. Two years later, he was appointed Professor of Architecture. He remained at the GSD in various guises until his death, educating and inspiring countless students with his Le Corbusier-influenced modernist vision and unique teaching style.Gerald M. McCue, John T. Dunlop Professor of Housing Studies Emeritus...
...made his mark criticizing films with a mixture of dry wit, far-far-out metaphors and opinions that sometimes seem designed to surprise and provoke, Elvis Mitchell is startlingly polite. While taking his film class last year, I visited his office hours in the Carpenter Center’s Sert Café. Interrupting our conversation about comic books, he jumped up, crossed the room and opened the door for a shopping-bag-laden stranger...