Word: sylvan
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Ongoing. Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Sackler Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...
...owners of the seventy-odd Japanese scrolls and objects currently on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum do not speak Japanese. What led Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, the collectors, to purchase their first piece in the 1960s––a scroll by Jiun Onko from the 18th century, which hangs in the exhibition––was its similarity to the aesthetic of modern art, especially abstract expressionism. This is the connection that permits a non-specialist to even approach the doors of the exhibition. “Marks of Enlightenment, Traces...
Ongoing. Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Sackler Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...
Ongoing. "Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection." Sackler Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 A.M.-5 P.M.; Sun. 1-5 P.M. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...
...count, the un-Burtonizing process turns out to be fairly easy. Burton's home in north London (he has lived off and on in London for several years) is neither a cave nor a haunted mansion but a series of four cottages in a sylvan courtyard that he and actress Helena Bonham Carter, his girlfriend and the mother of their new son, lovingly renovated into a single cozy home. It is the kind of place Hansel and Gretel would run to. Inside, a coal fire hisses softly, and Burton, in clothes of muted color, but color nonetheless, sock-slides...