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(02/19/04 5:00am)
The relationship between comics and the art world is hardly the stuff of headlines. Picasso integrated the over-the-top, cartoon style of American comic strips in his epic masterpiece, Guernica, while the Pop Art movement lifted its candy-colored look straight from sappy comic romances. But the point behind the "Comics on the Verge" exhibit, hosted at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is that comic books no longer influence contemporary art--they actually are art.
(02/12/04 5:00am)
It's hard to come up with a general statement for Picasso, who would win any contest for the edgiest and most prestigious artist of the 20th century. This difficulty in classifying him reveals the very essence of the cagey Spaniard's genius: he has tangoed with countless mediums, movements and women without entangling himself with any particular one. Instead he moved from one to another, passionately if not always gracefully, responding to their evocative power to create a style at once personal and expansively public.
(02/12/04 5:00am)
Bush's budget allocations for fiscal year 2005 came as a surprise--not because we didn't think he was capable of beefing up the military at the expense of core domestic programs, but because he told us he wasn't going to. In his State of the Union speech, the compassion our president campaigned on appeared to turn to the social health of our nation. But it was not to be.
(01/29/04 5:00am)
Report Suspicious Activity. Call 1-800-492-TIPS." This message, courtesy of the Homeland Security Department, was emblazoned on a billboard near I-95, just before the highway roars into Washington, D.C. On a whim I decided to call the number and air some technical reservations. The man who picked up had a warm, folksy drawl reminiscent of Mayberry; "Detective Taylor here."
(11/20/03 5:00am)
Master and Commander is an almost-splendid film about character, leadership and the tension that overachievers face in choosing between friendship and the obsession with setting and meeting goals. Critics are enchanted both by Peter Weir's realist interpretation of life aboard a 17th century British war ship, and the authority and management knowhow radiated by Russell Crowe as a Capt. "Lucky" Jack Aubrey.
(11/13/03 5:00am)
With the third installment in the Matrix trilogy, the Wachowski brothers must live up to the technical wizardry of the first two while making sense of the issues left unresolved at the end of Matrix Reloaded. The plot of Matrix Revolutions picks up where Reloaded left off, with Neo lying in a coma, his mind stranded in a subway station between the Matrix and the real world. He has already shown that his powers transcend the virtual reality of the Matrix; at the end of Reloaded, he has short-circuited the sentinels bearing down on Morpheus' crew in the real world.
(11/13/03 5:00am)
Now that the violence in Iraq has peaked to such politically embarrassing levels, the Bush administration now deciding to accelerate the transfer of power to Iraq's people. L. Paul Bremer III, the top U.S. civil administrator in Iraq, recently returned to Washington to hold policy discussions with Bush and his cabinet about taking immediate steps to create a full-fledged Iraqi government.
(10/30/03 5:00am)
One day we'll build a nice museum memorializing the U.N. as a well meaning but irrelevant relic of 20th century politics. Recently the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution ordering Israel to halt construction on a wall sequestering West Bank and Gaza. The United States opposed the resolution and Israel refused to comply.
(10/16/03 5:00am)
If you've spent even one second in the Arts and Science orbit at Hopkins, chances are that you've heard of the artist in residence at the Writing Seminars Department: actor John Astin of The Addams Family television fame. Armed with a natural flair and experience with 50 years on the drama and film track, Astin teaches the nuts and bolts of acting, directing and stage management to eager students. He has also created the Hopkins Studio Players to revive theatre in the undergraduate community.
(10/09/03 5:00am)
Ready, set, shoot: woman, reeling from trauma or caught up in the deadening grind a la Americain, is in a slump. Woman packs her bags and gets off to an exotic locale. Woman gets immersed in a rejuvenating cultural experience preferably with the help of a hot guy, who shows her the sights and converts her to a new philosophy of living. Final shot; woman triumphant, who has not only recaptured her bloom but evolved into the woman she's meant to become.
(10/02/03 5:00am)
Leaving Shriver Hall after the Ann Coulter forum, which left the air steaming with raw partisan emotion, bruised egos and offended sensibilities, I resolved to write an article and dish out clever banter about the night's ultimate showgirl. And then I heard some news that shocked and saddened me, and drove all thought of swordplay with Coulter out of mind; the death of that rarest of things, a true public scholar.
(09/18/03 5:00am)
Aspiring Spielbergs, beware: "The Epic Saga" is hands down, one of the most deadly diseases to stalk ambitious directors. Plenty of would-be masters get ahold of a strong narrative and try to adapt it into a laudable film; then, with their neurons kicking into overdrive, they try to knead the material into a story arc that gives the cinema-going world a gem that truly defines the genre. But it happens all too often somewhere in the process, they trip up on their own panoramic vision and produce a sappy, soggy effort that's no better for bearing the master's label.
(09/11/03 5:00am)
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can never hurt us." Well, maybe the inventor of that quaint Spanish proverb was wrong. Chances are that he forgot to catalogue the deadly potency of political words; they softly lull us into quiescence, and persuade us to ignore grave wounds afflicting the political body.
(05/02/03 5:00am)
Opening credits run across the darkened screen. The audience draws a collective breath of anticipation. The stark techno beat of the musical score brings the blood beating to your very fingertips. The storytelling on celluloid wraps you up in its weird logic, and dream and reality start dissolving into across your retina.
(04/17/03 5:00am)
Those poor London aristocrats. You gotta feel for those starched, fashion-deprived, hopelessly proper lords and ladies, who can only show affection to dogs and horses and who are completely clueless about how to go about having a good time.
(04/10/03 5:00am)
Students, community members and guests were treated to a lecture, a cultural fashion show, and Middle Eastern food at the JHU Muslim Students Association's Annual Spring Banquet on Saturday.
(11/07/02 5:00am)
After Spider-Man smashed through the roof of box offices this summer, we've been living and breathing the high-octane world of the comic book. Rogue of X-Men Evolution is charming audiences right and left as the untouchable steel magnolia, X-Men 2 is evolving under wraps and Ben Affleck is poised to take the pre-teen world by storm as the blind superhero Daredevil.
(10/24/02 5:00am)
"Second to the right, and straight on till morning."
(09/12/02 5:00am)
Momentum is underway to create a Center for African and African-American Studies at Johns Hopkins University, that will offer students a greater variety of courses in the area and provide an opportunity for those interested in an intensive study to do a major or minor.
(09/12/02 5:00am)
In Time Magazine's recent issue, we are brought some heartwrenching stories of people whose lives have been altered by Sept. 11. We're taken close to a girl who lost her father in the collapse of the World Trade Center. We meet a survivor from the Twin Towers, whose chances of escape were impossibly slim. We see many lives touched by 9/11 through the eyes of a man distributing victim compensation money. But of course, there are many more stories, an infinite variety, all of which deserve to be heard.