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...ease, however, by the precedent set by perhaps the most famous work to date of artist Xu Bing called “Book From the Sky?? or “Book From Heaven.” In one of the first examples of installation art in China, Xu created volumes of scrolls containing approximately 4,000 invented Chinese characters, which were then hand-cut onto wooden print blocks. Each character appears to the viewer as if a real word, with Chinese visitors to the installation noting that their first impression of the project was that many...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Self-Aware Chinese Art Begins to Break Down Walls | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...forest that might have been a kilometer away. I wondered whether to go after it, but I reasoned that leprechauns probably don't hide their gold in places where no one has heard of them. So instead, I just watched the rainbow slowly fade into the evening sky??not the same as a fireworks display, but still a pretty good show...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: Pot of Gold | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

...really an insight into his character.” For Chenoweth to already be competing alongside and beating some of the older, more experienced runners in the league is truly a testament to his work ethic. And if his winning ways continue for the next three seasons, the sky??s the limit for the rookie. “Dan’s setting a good example about how you can go out there and compete with the best guys in the Ivy League and the best guys in the IC4A,” Holmquest said, adding that Chenoweth...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Illinois Native Displays Grit, Talent in First Season | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken-word digression of the Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky?? seems like an appropriate Reagan-era boast. The track shimmers with hedonistic abandon, flying high on echoing keyboards and the indulgently meaningless mantra, “It’s coming / It’s coming on,” then evaporating instantaneously. At a staggering eight...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M83 | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...elite, educated, and well-connected youth with a social conscience, the impulse is to use the power of education for good. Ian R. Klaus, a graduate student in history at Harvard, arrived with his “feet on the ground, head in the sky?? in Iraq in 2005, two years after the U.S. invasion, to teach English literature and American history in the country’s Kurdistan region...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Teaching for American in Iraq | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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