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...presentation, entitled “Agulu: Form from Function.” Every element of the potting process, Hoy discovered, was sustainable and came directly from the land. From the hardened tree leaves used to sculpt and smooth the village’s clay to the braided grass impressed upon the pots to add texture, every material used was completely natural and close at hand. Although this pottery—which is primarily used for cooking and storing food—is threatened by an inundation of modern wares from abroad, the pots and their uses have not changed...
...Crispness folded down upon New York…bringing November and the three big football games and a great fluttering of furs along Fifth Avenue. It brought, also, a sense of tension to the city, and suppressed excitement...
...American society through advertising, telecommunications, regulation, entertainment, and other forms of media. Kaufman says that as an Internet-based digital culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high art and low art has been breached. “Where we used to have formal, widely agreed upon boundaries between what we considered high culture—Shakespeare, fine art—and low culture—Broadway musicals or graffiti art—we’ve seen a gradual blurring and redefinition of these boundaries,” Kaufman says. “Doing mashups...
...Pointes of Departure” also features a work by Susan Shields and the classical piece “Le Corsaire,” as well as guest appearances by Harvard Ballroom and the Harvard College Irish Dancers. Composed of diverse dances, the production builds upon the Harvard Ballet Company’s 2006 “American Grace,” which featured the work of choreographers from George Balanchine to Bob Fosse to Fred Astaire. Like “American Grace,” “Pointes of Departure” demonstrates and relies on the diversity...
...elect may represent a big social shift, but their retro, TV Land ordinariness helped get America comfortable with Dad. Quipping with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, Barack and Michelle echoed not J.F.K. and Jackie but rather Rob and Laura Petrie--she, the amiably needling supporter; he, the self-deprecatingly put-upon hubby joking about Michelle's asking him to take the girls to school the morning after the election. This fall, on every channel, it's Meet the Obamas! (Or: At Least 52.7% of Everybody Loves Barack.) (See pictures of Michelle Obama meeting Hillary Clinton...