Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people always seem to see the good side of everything. In Harvard's cloud of illness, a few students found silver linings...
...hefty ceremonial University silver is presented against a backdrop by Paul Revere (a silversmith himself) depicting Harvard Yard as it appeared in 1767. Portraits of Presidents Holyoke and Lowell seated in the same President's chair which might torture Acting President Albert Carnesale next June hang uneasily behind the malignant-looking seat itself. The representations, paired with the object, and distanced from the viewer by a pane of glass like anthropological objects, call into question our acceptance of the ceremonies around...
Rothko's "Untitled (Blue, Green)," Whistler's "Nocturne in Blue and Silver, No. 1," and Feininger's "Bird Cloud" are tucked in a pristine white oasis at the heart of the exhibition. They are presented like a stage set depicting display techniques in a modern museum. The paintings, all modern and somewhat abstract in tones of blue, crystallize the value of Cultures and Contexts. They are presented on white walls without the helpful explanations, without accompanying cultural artifacts, yet carry themselves with the solitary dignity of true masterpieces. There is a rising debate in American museums about the validity...
...which, referring in broad strokes to a middle- class background, private schools, piano and trumpet lessons. At 13 she modeled for a local hair salon. "I had such beautiful long blond hair," she says. Now her hair is cut short and tinged with purple dye. She wears a small silver ring in her nose, combat boots and a white T shirt on which she has written with a marker a message to the tourists she panhandles: I'd rather hear "no" than nothing...
...knuckles, marred with scabs, whiten as he squeezes a silver Zippo lighter, which looks large in his small and fragile hands. He snaps open the lighter with practiced precision, then lights a Marlboro and sucks it furiously. "My sister turned seven in April. Do you know what we did for her / birthday? Nothing! Mom was in Vegas. I coulda killed...