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...childhood birthday beyond an impressionistic blur. In our technological age, what would we do without instant replay? In his debut novel “Beautiful Children,” Charles Bock confronts the problem of video’s power, using this subtext to focus on an underexposed subject: the roughly 1.5 million adolescents who flee their homes every year in North America. But despite its shimmering surface, Bock’s novel ultimately crumbles under the burden of the visual medium it seeks to explore.“Beautiful Children” begins with the recounting of a recounting...
...Club,” connects final clubs to the vulva and is just one of the many works that illuminates how art can address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition organized around a certain topic. The subject this spring—the relationship between Harvard and body issues—stems from last fall’s “Autobiography” theme. Both the exhibition and its title, “More Than Skin Deep,” are intended to demonstrate the all-encompassing nature of body issues...
...presents them in an estranged fashion, reintroducing us to its intricacies as if we were once again seeing them for the first time.Her overarcing statements read as if they weren’t meant for an audience, but rather as proverbial, unconditional truths of life that ultimately transcend the subject matter of any piece. But she remains entirely accessible, largely due to the number of rhetorical questions present, which actively involve the reader in her philosophical musings. Paradoxically, by presenting an alienated picture of the familiar, Hartwig intrigues and thus draws us into her most existential ideas. She leaves...
...Sartre and Rilke next to rolls of film or Chekhov and Cheever on a flowered quilt. This latter category of photographs seems trite: the objects are robbed of their aesthetic autonomy as Davey manipulates them for some “unambiguously productive” purpose. People are rarely the subject of Davey’s pieces, with the occasional exception of hands holding a steak bone or feet on a wooden floor. Far more compelling, however, are the photographs that call attention to the quotidian objects that usually go unnoticed. In one pair of prints, a refrigerator decorated with papers...
...first major survey and museum exhibition of Davey’s work. “Moyra’s an artist I feel has not gotten fair notice or the commercial success I think she deserves, in part because her work is so modest in scale and subject matter,” Molesworth says.As part of a larger initiative to bring more contemporary art to the Harvard art museums, Molesworth chose to display Davey’s work because she believes it also lends itself well to a learning environment. “I feel like students can have many...