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There are a few worthwhile things in "Aperto 93." One is The World Flag Ant Farm, by the Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi. Yanagi's conceit, a pretty good one, was to make scores of replicas of national flags in colored sand, behind Perspex. These are linked by tubes and populated by a colony of ants, which scurry to and fro between the flags bearing grains of sand in their mandibles. Over time the flags become illegible through migration and mixture; Yanagi's piece has the same concision and elegance as Haacke's in the German pavilion...
Muneyoshi Yanagi, who recently lectured in the Fine Arts Department, has arranged the display. Examples of English and Japanese weaving and pottery are its features. In speaking of his work, Yanagi says, "The present exhibition of pottery, textiles, lacquer and metal work of Japanese and English workers is especially noteworthy because in it is shown in America for the first time the work of a group of people who are wholly uninfluenced by methods of modern commercial production. In so far as these methods detract from the quality, beauty, and vitality of things made for personal or domestic...
This colection, which is coming here through the instrumentality of Langdon Warner '03 and Mr. Yanagi, a Japanese professor from Tokio who is at Harvard this year, is to pass around the country, going to Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Chicago museums after its showing here...
...four-thirty he will be present in New Fogg Lecture Hall to pick up a little information on "Peasant Paintings of Japan" which Mr. Muneyshi Yanagi, Japanese critic and essayist, will discuss in connection with his position as Lecturer on Oriental...
...Chemistry. C. A. Kraus, Research Professor of Chemistry at Brown, comes to Harvard for the first half year, to lecture on Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. M. S. Sherrill, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at M. I. T. will lecture at Harvard through the entire year on Advanced Physical Chemistry. Professor Muneyoshi Yanagi of Kyoto, Japan, will lecture on Japanese Art, and serve as a research fellow in the Department of Fine Arts...