Zombies, puppets and Bill Murray, oh my!
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Out of Sweden
For much of the first half of its nearly 200-year existence, photography was not taken seriously as an art form. In fact, French critic and poet Charles Baudelaire considered it the “refuge of failed painters with too little talent.”
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Student’s ‘stain painting’ on display
For Katharine Smith ‘05, “Little Green Monster” was an initiation into an entirely new way to use paint. This small amoeba-shaped beast resulted from the merger of a dissatisfying previous painting and left-over watered-down paint from another work.
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No business being good
William Shatner’s CD, “Has Been”, has no business being any good. This is the same artist, after all, whose cover of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” still gives me night terrors. But it’s amazing what having Ben Folds produce your album can do for you. In “Has Been”, Shatner samples a broad array of musical genres in his own unmistakable style—speaking the lyrics over music. Believe it or not, this works. With guest appearances by artists such as Folds, Joe Jackson, and Aimee Mann, “Has Been” is at once addictively fun, sublimely moving and wryly amusing.
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The world of fighter pilots
The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe’s stab at fiction based on real events. It is based on the true story of America’s first astronauts and Wolfe manages to shine a very entertaining light on the lives and feelings of the Mercury astronauts without excessively embellishing.
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