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...tavern, seated with her elbows propped up on a table. Devoid of the usual uproarious goings-on of a Paris nightclub, the scene in both paintings is sullen, pensive and lonely. A small tin of face powder at the table in the first painting exposes the naturalness of the subject??caught without her make-up on—and perhaps even Valadon’s more personal desires: rice powder was worn by courtesans in an attempt to imitate the pale faces of the women of the Parisian aristocracy. “The Hangover” (from...
...MFA’s blockbuster show—the first major exhibition anywhere devoted to this subject??synthesizes an overwhelming amount of information in seven galleries. The show includes ninety paintings by sixteen artists, spanning forty years of history...
Jeff Sheng ’02 got his start in photography picking out pictures of beautiful people for his high school yearbook. Four years later his subject??beauty—is the same, but his outlet is a little more high class. These days Sheng is a bona fide artist whose first professional photography exhibition opened last Friday at Jamaica Plain’s Gallery at Green Street. His journey from high school to Green Street has included both an introductory community college course and the most theory-heavy offerings of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies?...
Kennedy’s attention to the importance of the N-word’s role in African-American history shows his appreciation for the subject??s complexity and demand for nuanced interpretation. To dismiss the word as a one-dimensional insult disregards its deep and loaded history. Kennedy’s book is in many ways an effort to analyze this history and place the deeply stigmatized and tabooed word at the forefront of race-relations dialogue in America. In fact, Kennedy censured what he called the “eradicationist” position, espoused by those...
...They cleverly re-imagine older staples of the western art canon as food, a mere commodity. “Portrait (W. Pooh),” for instance—a bust of a chocolate bear—is absurd and self-effacing. Art, then, for Ryoo is its own subject??her photographs are a kind of meta-art. They suggest that artistic creation is subject to the same commodification as the boxes of Tide and cereal in Wing’s photographs...