Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arts, a large non-profit which also runs the Cyclorama, various theaters and over 50 artists' studios in the South End. The well-curated exhibitions emphasize the contemporary and the local. In the current show, Boston-based artist Sheila Pepe has stretched great drips and webs of crocheted yarn across the room. From what I gather, crochet is the medium of the moment; see, for example, the work of Seong Chun. Pepe also plays with casting shadows, created by found-object mini-sculptures, across her childlike drawings. A limber, nimble exhibition...
...Brustein: My first job, aside from working for father in the shipping room of a wool yarn business, was playing clarinet and tenor sax with a swing band at a high school junior prom...
...vibrant House life really just about "integration"? Is the College capping blocking groups just so that it can force students to meet one another? It sounds like the yarn game...
...created social circles for the companionship of several hundred random residents is both silly and simple-minded. Social circles of varying sizes are an inevitable part of House and campus life. Eliminate them in the form of blocking and they will merely recreate themselves after subsequent rounds of the yarn game...
Fiddling with numbers doesn't help at all. It only turns our House system into a muddled, vapid ball of yarn...