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Artist Heide Hatry channels Victor Frankenstein as she stitches together pieces of pigskin to make female figures. And like Frankenstein’s monster, the masquerade of life she creates never takes on fully human form, instead leaving the viewer in shock and disgust. Hatry’s current exhibition, “Heads and Tales,” is on display at the Pierre Menard Gallery at 10 Arrow Street until March 17. Hatry fashions each of her figures out of untreated pig meat, skin, and eyes. She then dresses and paints them with makeup before modeling them...
...were following the crowd into finance, it’s time to follow your passions,” Delle said. “In these markets where job security is almost an oxymoron, you want to do what you love.”—Staff writer Victor W. Yang can be reached at vyang@fas.harvard.edu...
Cover recalled his favorite book of childhood adventure stories, Victor Appleton's Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. "What an amazing thought," he once said, "stunning people with blue balls of electricity." A rejiggering of some letters later, and Cover had a name--TASER (Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle). Resembling a large flashlight, the device fired darts that delivered an electrical current through the human body, briefly incapacitating anyone on the receiving...
...sculptures, antiquities and furniture - in an unprecedented auction at Paris' Grand Palais. Despite the economic crisis, experts say the rarity and quality of the works virtually ensures the sale will shatter the all-time auction record for a private collection: $206 million hauled in for the estate of Victor and Sally Ganz...
...welcome. “Do make a detour to Cabot to see their work,” she said. “The exhibition explores why Darwin still packs such a punch today and how he has become a modern icon.” —Staff writer Victor W. Yang can be reached at vyang@fas.harvard.edu...