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Reluctant to anchor themselves to the ownership of apartments or cars, the brothers prefer to drift between their parents' and friends' homes in Yekaterinburg and various countries and continents. Still, they won't leave Yekaterinburg for good, because its subway, street-car stops and sidewalks are key sources of characters and language. "Our works are written essentially in the language of the people we live among," says Oleg. But with the brothers' world travels, they've discovered that their art taps into the universal well of emotions that transcends dialect and local geography. "The best thing," says Oleg, "is when...
DIED. Martin Nodell, 91, creator of crime-fighting superhero Green Lantern and one of the last surviving artists from comics' golden age; in Muskego, Wis. Nodell got the idea for Green Lantern on a New York City subway when he noticed an engineer holding out a lantern. "It was green, which meant things were safe," he said. Infusing elements of Greek myth and Wagner's Ring operas, he created a flying good guy who draws his powers from a magic ring made from the remains of an ancient green lamp...
...realized that it had to be powered by the people,” Matisse says in a telephone interview from his home in Groton, Mass. “I had no idea how much power resided in the man walking through the subway...
Matisse came up with the idea 22 years ago, when the Cambridge Arts Council and the MBTA asked him to beautify the Red Line station, which was in decline, as part of a subway expansion project...
Matisse’s subway soundmakers, says Holton, are “a very humanistic idea” that try “to intersperse...the very pedestrian day-to-day existence of someone waiting on a platform” with scientific phenomena...