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...Yorkshire farm was where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further...
Year: 2008 House: Cabot Concentration: Women in Business Hometown: Belmont, Mass. Ideal Date: Chloroform, a shovel, and a bag of fertilizer Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: I’d say plastic surgery, but I don’t want to sound like an asshole. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Alone, in the fetal position, and crying in a corner of my room, a tub of Ben and Jerry’s Moosetracks clutched in my aching hands while listening to Cher’s “Song for the Lonely?...
...Yorkshire farm was where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. And it is to the grounds of the 500-acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield, where he first worked in 1983, that Goldsworthy now makes a fitting return for the largest ever exhibition of his work. Running until Jan. 6, 2008, the show features major new works and a photographic review of many of the ephemeral works in nature for which Goldsworthy has become famous over the last 30 years...
...springs may have given him another edge over Staehely, a Houston native. “That’s baseball to me,” Haviland said of the frosty conditions. “The first three or four weeks of the season in high school, we used to shovel snow off the field.” Plus, he added, “the ball doesn’t go as far in the cold.” —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
Christians normally reserve this vehemence for a different place name beginning with H. But this was war. Hollywood, no longer satisfied with trying to undermine Christianity, was taking a shovel, pickax and video camera and trying to physically destroy it. The man who showed us Kate Winslet's breasts in Titanic was boasting that he had brought God to Manhattan in a box and DNA-tested him like a dinosaur femur...