Fine arts
Bank on Banksy: British graffiti artist creates singular work
- Angela Cesere
BY ANDREW SARGUS KLEIN
In 1926, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote: "I do not give a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do care when propaganda is confined to one side while the other is stripped and silent." Although he was speaking of the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance - and the subsequent racial issues surrounding that movement - his point is timeless.
Catch the Wave: Poetry bus to stop in A2
BY ANDREW SARGUS KLEIN
In accordance with the Residential College's devotion to poetry, The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour will stop tonight at 7 p.m. in East Quadrangle's Residential College Auditorium, one the bus's 50 stops in as many days. The Rolling Stones don't even tour this hard.
No, this is not the bus your parents wish they were on - you know, the one with Ken Keasey, fresh batches of LSD and an "NYC or Bust" manifesto.
Simply put, this tour is about poetry.
'Simpsons' back on DVD
- Angela Cesere
BY MICHAEL PASSMAN
Matt Groening sure has this DVD thing down. "The Simpsons" creator continues to pump out season after season of DVD sets and his obsessive Uter-action-figure-collecting fanbase continues to eat them up.
So with the release of "The Simpsons: The Complete Eighth Season," Groening didn't change a thing. The 25-episode set is in the same format as the past few DVD releases, but with Itchy, Scratchy and the late Poochie involved, the fanboys have no reason to complain.
State Street exhibit conceptualizes food
BY ABIGAIL B. COLODNER
I generally believe my relationship with food to be a rational one. I reconsidered this assumption when I stood transfixed by dozens of marshmallow peeps at the School of Art and Design's gallery space Work on State Street, in an exhibition running through Oct. 6. I was presented with burning questions: Why was I salivating over sparkly yellow blobs that had been glued to a wall for at least a week?
Andrew Sargus Klein: Art is life is art is life
- Angela Cesere
BY ANDREW SARGUS KLEIN
It's easy to preach art's qualifying nature: that we (as a town, a university, a nation) need, on any level, an appreciation for expression. And in the context of a fine arts column, it would be even easier to condense such a sentiment by shouting: "There's a museum." "There's a gallery." "There's avant-garde theater."
Such are the expressions of a select few in few select places - some convenient, some not so much. It's so easy to pin up a few institutions and organizations as the be-all and end-all of "arts appreciation."
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