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William Davis Taylor ‘31, former publisher of the Boston Globe, died of heart failure on Tuesday at his home in Brookline...
...getter.” The end result of their meeting is the show “Once Upon a Time,” an exhibit that opened this past Friday featuring Sheng’s photos as well as paintings created by Katherine Taylor, an artist from Georgia State University...
...opening reception of “Once Upon a Time” last Friday, Sheng chats with friends and acquaintances. At one point he stops to discuss the price of art with Taylor, the other artist showing at the exhibit. Both artists are hoping to sell some of their work through the show. Sheng says his photos are “not as hard to part with as paintings because I edition them,” he says. Sheng will sell up to five editions of a given print...
...moved on to multiple images of Coke bottles, green trading stamps, Campbell's soup cans and human beings. Thirty Are Better Than One (1963) presents 30 - count 'em - stacked Mona Lisas. In the same room are multiples of Monroe, Elvis Presley, the Statue of Liberty and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol first painted Monroe after her suicide in August 1962. Instead of a recent photograph, he used a film still from nearly 10 years before. The flat silk-screen technique crookedly applies green eyeshadow and scarlet lipstick, like a magazine illustration of this season's makeup trends. Warhol's paintings "have...
...pensive gaze of Liz Taylor, Monroe's heavy-lidded glance and the Mona Lisa's enigmatic leer recall the direct eye contact of the Catholic icons of Christ, the Madonna and saints that Warhol grew up with. Catholic imagery is also full of death and grisly executions, subjects that possessed Warhol during the '60s. Darkness hangs over Room 9 (Disasters) as the mushroom cloud of Atomic Bomb (1963) hung over the decade. In images adapted from anonymous news photos, rioters are attacked by police dogs. Women die in car wrecks or from poisoned tuna fish. The broken body...