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...that span a 30-year period from the mid 1950s to 1980s. The exhibit contains works from the new Davis Center collection as well as pieces on loan from Rutgers University and from Dodge’s personal collection. “This is the first dive into the visual arts for the Center. For us it was exciting to bring the arts into the Center where there is a heavy emphasis on social sciences,” says Tarlow. “Now [the students] can understand history through the prism of art.”Located...
...rendered difficult. All the photos don’t help, either. “The Clash” is a scrapbook. The editors compiled photos, collages, set-lists, newspaper clippings, and posters that give the reader a better sense of the world that The Clash arose from. The visual element of “The Clash” gives the band’s story a fullness and color that is hard to convey solely in words.Each photo creates a narrative of its own. One particularly beautiful photo shows the band refusing to be confined by the turmoil and decay...
...discussion last night in Ticknor Lounge entitled “Sextalk: How to get what you want (in bed),” an intimate audience was given an overview of topics ranging from improving communication with a sexual partner to the basics of hormonal contraception. Using a variety of visual aids, PCC representatives walked the audience through the basics of sex, relationships, and contraception. PCC co-director Cesar J. Lopez ’09 said that his organization offers an outlet for students who would rather not talk to medical professionals. “Sometimes it’s difficult...
...China's Revolution," an exhibition at the Asia Society in New York City until Jan. 11, presents a fascinating look at an artistic development that came into being between the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 and its economic liberalization in 1978 - namely, the new visual aesthetic of socialist realism with Chinese characteristics...
...Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu and co-curator Zheng Shengtian argue in the show's excellent catalog, however, that, didactic or not, socialist art represented a "significant cultural movement in China" - one that produced some "truly great art," especially paintings, and that such works "continue to influence Chinese visual culture." The contemporary installation artist Xu Bing, whose Cultural Revolution - era drawings are on display, supports the idea that the production of propaganda led to legitimate artistic achievement. "If you want to probe deeply into the underpinnings of contemporary Chinese art," he says in the catalog, "you have to consider...