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...image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell...
...very mod, minus any pretense of legitimacy.The bridge signals a radical change in tone. The three chords employed throughout (bold minimalist statement or banal pop trash?) suddenly turn minor, and Hilary starts yelling “Away! Away!” for no discernible reason. To add visual insult to aural injury, all of this takes place while Hilary dances in front of a shadow puppet of a speedometer.This disturbing interlude is resolved by Duff going through a full fashion show of all of the positively fab looks she has sported in the video, to chilling effect. After a close...
...student director working on the Mainstage runs a risk that the vast space will dwarf actors. I knew that this show would push us towards staging and design strategies that would fight against that danger.” Yet in spite of all its philosophical and visual grandeur, Spillane-Hinks insists that the HRDC production of “Slavs!” is intimate and personal at heart. “‘Slavs!’ is not merely an idea play; it is a play that struggles with fundamental elements of being human...
Kirby, who chairs the Council, did not give any input into the discussion of the letter because of his close involvement with the situation, according to Council member and Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of English and American Literature and Language J.D. Conner...
...treated to working with one of the most cutting-edge materials in the art world. “It’s a medium that’s really present in the contemporary culture,” Hsu says.Catherine A. Siller ’06, a sculpture concentrator in Visual and Environmental Studies, has made full use of silicone in her work. Delicate silicone webs drape over scraps of metal on her worktable, and an intricate network of salmon-orange silicone quivers behind her, suspended from the studio ceiling. Siller is “using the class as a sounding...