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Paintings can go hang. Handmade tiles from the London studio of ceramic artists Nita Rege and Bessie Turner bridge the gap between fine art and function. Imprinted with images of everyday objects - knives and forks, faucets, martini glasses - and rendered in one of six pale glazes, the tiles can be applied in volume or in smaller numbers to add a decorative flourish. "I'm fascinated by functionalism, but we approach each piece as an artwork," says Rege. "Some people even frame and hang them." Rege's life on the tiles began after Turner, a fellow graduate in ceramics from Edinburgh...
...Weather Man He has a funny name (David Spritz) and the studio tried, disastrously, to sell this Nicholas Cage movie as a comedy. It wasn't. It was about a Chicago weather reader dealing with an almost classic midlife crisis-a divorce, a disaffected child, an accomplished, disapproving (and dying) father (Michael Caine) the tempting possibility of taking his act from local to national TV. Steve Conrad's excellent script is directed as a sort of sad frenzy by Gore Verbinski and the result is a very affecting movie, offering a convincing portrait of middle class desperation that ends...
...later Surrealists: they appreciated his ability to combine images to unsettling effect. The fashionable lady in Promenade in the Forest (circa 1886) is not out shopping, but lost in a misty valley filled with autumnal trees. In his last painting, the justly famous The Dream (1910), his own velvet studio couch is set down in the middle of a jungle. Lying on it is a naked woman, her arm outstretched. She luxuriates like Eve in an arabesque of luminous lotus flowers, surrounded by lionesses with gleaming yellow eyes and other half-glimpsed animals from disparate continents. And in the most...
...that puts them at the level of first year master’s degree students after three undergraduate years, instead of four. For those first three years of their education, students in the joint program are essentially regular Harvard students, except they join a private instructor’s studio class at the NEC. But other than private music lessons and workshops, they take all of their classes at Harvard. After the third year they have auditions, known as “promotionals,” at the NEC to determine whether they can continue for their Masters?...
...paintings. Hyemin Na ’06 depicts fantastical creatures, a feat she accomplishes by basing her work on stuffed animals she brings to class. A large stuffed lion—out of place in many a Harvard classroom—sits in the center of the studio, just another testament to the remarkable flexibility and variety of the course...