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Art Review: Breaking the Veils
Wavering at the Crossroads of Pain and Progress: Art Exhibit “Breaking the Veils” Reviewed
Nestled in the underbelly of the Yale Divinity School lies an insightful exhibit: “Breaking the Veils: Women Artists from the Islamic World,” which will be displayed at Yale until December 11th as part of the show’s three-year US tour. The show offers a wide range of artistic styles: from photorealistic paintings and candid photographs with expressly political aims to more abstract arrangements, such as Suha Shoman’s The Legend of Petra (1992), one of the first paintings to incorporate sand as a medium along with oil and acrylic.
Theater Review: Eclipsed
Yale Rep’s “Eclipsed” Deploys Easy Psychology at the Expense of Ethics
By ANNIE ATURA
Eclipsed is an excru ci at ing tear jerker, which sug gests that play wright Danai Gurira felt an urgency of mes sage. Yet it’s also an adamant pur veyor of futil ity and moral ver tigo. Gurira says, “I went to Liberia to allow the women who endured a treach er ous war to speak to me and even tu ally through me.” This claim is dis turb ing enough in itself, but its pre sumption is com pounded by the play’s shallowness.
Poetry
Lilac
Lover, I’ve made you a paper lilac
after spending some time at the tree. I think the construction is right, a few scraps, wound into strands, making a coiled vine that accumulates into bunch blossoms.Arts in Brief
By PRESCA AHN
December 2009
Next week, Women in Management (WIM) will host Yale World Fellow Muna Abu Sulayman, the host of MBC show Kalam Nawaem, the most popular social program across all Arab channels. The show focuses on issues of culture and gender. Sulayman is also involved with the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, for which she focuses on women’s empowerment issues, cross-cultural understanding, and education policy in the Middle East. December 7th at 11:30 am at School of Management, A30.
On the evening of the same day, author and MIT visiting professor Thomas Glave will speak at Labyrinth Books. Glave has written Whose Song? and Other Stories and the essay collection Worlds to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. His edited anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, was published last June. Time TBA, at 290 York Street.
Beyond campus: December is the last full month in the run of Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video, which has been on view in New York at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The exhibition was curated by Lauren Ross, and features work by Cathy Begien, Jen DeNike, Kate Gilmore, K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood, and others. It derives its title from feminist artist Lynn Hershman’s essay “Reflections on the Electric Mirror.” Go with a friend, and argue once again about feminist art, what it means, and why it does or doesn’t matter.
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