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It’s 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. Students are having dinner, agonizing over all of their remaining work, and...learning how to fix storm windows? Practicing self defense? Ever since John G. “Sean” Palfrey assumed the position of Adams House Master ten years ago, he has offered weekly “Life Seminars” to Adams House students and affiliates, ranging from the practical (such as basic plumbing), to the indulgent (such as wine tasting), to the cerebral (such as an introduction to Italian opera). Depending on the topic and the time...
...department was formed in response to student activism that had been spurred by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Since then, the department has been home to a number of leading intellectuals, such as Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Cornel R. West. But over the past ten years the Af-Am faculty shrunk to bare bones after University President Laurence H. Summer’s contentious tenure spurred the departure of five prominent scholars...
What are your goals for Ikea over the next five to ten years? We will probably increase our presence in developing countries. For these past 10 years our focus has been on existing markets. We've entered only two new markets in 10 years time: Portugal and Japan. That's very little compared to our earlier history. That will change quite a lot over the next 10 years. We'll see seven or eight new markets being opened up in that time frame, 90% in developing countries. I hope India will be on the map, and on this continent maybe...
...LeWitt was the man who made conceptual art an appealing concept. For almost four decades, LeWitt, who died last year at 78, made immense abstract wall drawings that he conceived but almost never executed himself. His method was to devise a set of instructions - for instance, draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, covering the wall evenly - that could be carried out by assistants or, for that matter, by anyone. Often he never even saw the finished work, much less touched...
This cerebral formula turned out to be a recipe for irresistible eye candy. Draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, and you end up with a dynamic pattern of vector formations. A great LeWitt wall drawing may start like an algebra lesson, but it ends like a Renaissance fresco. Now you can see 105 of his drawings unfold themselves gorgeously across three floors of Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, in North Adams, Mass. In a very unusual arrangement, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" will remain on view there for at least 25 years. In effect...