Outgoing Photographic Resource Center curator Leslie K. Brown tapped Deb Todd Wheeler of Newton, who sets up a fun crafts table that invites visitors to fashion flowers from colorful plastic bags. Wheeler tried out a version of this project at her awesome "Live Experiments in Human Energy Exchange" at Green Street Gallery back in 2006. The flowers were diverting, but what made that show was a bicycle that pedal-powered a series of contraptions, riffing on old failed utopian dreams in our era of Global Warming. I miss her philosophical, mechanical tinkering.
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- Students gone wild
When it comes to warding off stress, every college has its own traditions. Some quell student woes with late-night pancakes. Some offer free movie nights. But only at Tufts University in Medford does release of academic tension involve hundreds of synchronized derrières bobbing up and down in below-freezing temperatures.
- A new Gardner, plus landscapes, performance art, and RAD
Greater Boston's art-museum building boom continues with the debut of an expanded Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in January.
- Well shut my mouth!
Are today’s college students thinner-skinned than were previous generations?
- Ledge Lessons
As advocates of higher education and living as long as medically possible, we were sad to read that, according to new-media-powerhouse Web site the Daily Beast, Greater Boston is home to not one but five of the most stressful colleges in the United States.
- Living la vida Republican
Trying to find college Republicans in Boston is like looking for a flattering pair of jeans: they’re elusive — either too stiff or completely out of style.
- 2009: The year in art
The year started off with a kick in the teeth when, in January, Brandeis University announced plans to shutter its Rose Art Museum and sell off its masterpieces.
- Instant messages
The immediacy of communicating personal information that Internet culture and high bandwidth provide is not part of the new exhibition at the Mills Gallery, which eschews digital technology altogether.
- Naked Boston
Every year, Ol' Man Winter cruelly turns Bostonians' bodies into shriveled, cracked sacks of atrophied muscle and lumpy goo — not exactly fodder for Playmate of the Month.
- Nancy Holt locates the cosmos
Holt is part explorer, part surveyor, part hippie/New Age dreamer. And this thorough survey of her art from 1966 to '80 shows her finding her way to becoming one of the pioneers of the "Land Art" or "Earthworks" movement.
- How do Boston’s on-campus dining options measure up?
College students have a reputation for a lot of things, but a sophisticated, discriminating palate is certainly not one of them.
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It's hard being a girl.
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