In Boston- DeCordova presents Cool Medium, a colorful look at the intersections of television, psychedelia, and visual art

DeCordova presents Cool Medium, a colorful look at the intersections of television, psychedelia, and visual art

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08/09/2017

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Emily Kowalski

On October 6, 2017, deCordova presents Cool Medium: Art, Television & Psychedelia, 1960-1980, which explores how the emergence of color television and psychedelic culture—and the hypnotic properties of both—intersected with visual art. Drawn primarily from deCordova’s permanent collection, Cool Medium includes painting, photographs, and prints that relate to the visual language of the television screen and conditions of mass media culture. The works in the exhibition mirror the saturated colors and patterns shown on television in the 1960s and 1970s, and also address cultural issues of drug use, paranoia, space exploration, and media saturation.
Sarah Montross, deCordova’s associate curator, explains, “Some artists used the visual trickery of Op Art to simulate television’s mesmerizing qualities, while others borrowed psychedelic imagery to address issues of mind control and brainwashing associated with television. Other works express paranoia and the loss of self in the face of mass culture. Altogether, these artworks underscore the transfixing visions of many artists during the age of the television.”
Exhibition themes include:

• Optical Art: Featuring geometric shapes, concentric lines, and contrasting colors, these hypnotic artworks simulate the shimmering effect of television screens and drug-induced hallucinatory visions. Many of the works appear to pulsate or move, creating a kinetic experience for viewers.
• Television Test Patterns: Some artists were inspired by the symmetry and structure of test patterns—aired prior to a television programs and used as a control for measuring contrast, focus, and color on television screens.
• Psychedelia and Spirituality: Artists often created work that suggests a drug-induced state of enlightenment, or that are intended to provide access to higher levels of consciousness. Other artists were inspired by their studies of spirituality, such as the Kabbalah (Hebrew mysticism) and Eastern religions.

Artists in this exhibition include Yaacov Agam, David Akiba, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Stephen Beck, Hannes Beckmann, Charles Biederman, Jan Ehrenworth, Len Gittleman, Sante Graziani, Aaronel de Roy Gruber, Yeffe Kimball, Paul Laffoley, William Leete, Terri Priest, Alan Shields, John Stephan, Harold Tovish.
Cool Medium is organized by Sarah Montross, Associate Curator, with Scout Hutchinson, Curatorial Assistant. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, October 6, 2017, and will be on view through Sunday, March 11, 2018.

Related Programming

Workshop: Psychedelic Glass Mandalas
Tuesdays, November 7 and 21, 6:30 pm–9 pm
$75 Members, $90 Not-Yet-Members
Inspired by the art of Paul Laffoley and other visionary artists in Cool Medium: Art, Television & Psychedelia, 1960-1980, create mosaic mandalas inspired by the psychedelic images in this dynamic exhibition.
Curator-Led Tour of Cool Medium
Thursday, January 18, 12 pm
Free with Museum admission
Explore the intersections of television, psychedelia, and visual art on this tour led by Curatorial Assistant Scout Hutchinson.

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2017 Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN: Wake Up Call to Humanity OCTOBER 6, 2017 BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Announcement and explanation of award at nobelpeaceprize.org In honoring the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) as this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has reaffirmed that prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons is the most urgent security priority of our time. ICAN was launched in 2007 by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace Laureate, and now comprises 468 civil society organizations and thousands of campaigners in 101 countries. ICAN mounted an extraordinarily effective and diverse global campaign that helped secure the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted by 122 UN member states on July 7, 2017. The landmark agreement declares nuclear weapons illegal because of their catastrophic consequences and based on the principles of international humanitarian law. The Treaty was achieved through the collective effort of civil society, international organizations, and non-nuclear-weapon states. “The Hibakusha, who have borne constant witness to the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons since the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, played a pivotal role in ICAN’s work to support the negotiations for the Ban Treaty,” noted IPPNW co-president and ICAN’s founding co-chair Tilman Ruff. “Their voices—and those of the victims of nuclear testing—can be heard clearly in the Treaty’s preamble, which cites ‘the unacceptable suffering of and harm caused to the victims of the use of nuclear weapons.'” “This year’s Nobel Peace Prize does more than recognize the Ban Treaty as a major step forward in nuclear disarmament,” said IPPNW co-president Ira Helfand. “It reminds us that we remain hostage to what can only be considered suicide bombs. Now that nuclear weapons have been stigmatized and prohibited, it’s up to all of us to increase the legal, moral and political pressure on the nuclear-armed and nuclear-dependent states. Our task will not be finished until the last nuclear weapon has been eliminated from the last arsenal on Earth.” Help us sieze the moment! From prohibition to elimination! Please share!

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Support the Resistance Donate to Courage to Resist Thank you again for contributing to Chelsea Manning's freedom, and supporting war resisters like Ryan and Jenna Johnson. Now let's get some justice for Reality Winner! Support the resistance. Donate to Courage to Resist today. Hi. One year ago, I was asking folks such as yourself to donate, likely for a second or third time, to Chelsea Manning's defense efforts. At the time, Chelsea continued to languish in the Fort Leavenworth military prison, facing down the remaining 27 years on her sentence for exposing war crimes and the reality of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After seven years of building support for Chelsea, and funding her legal teams, I wouldn't have blamed you for being skeptical that one more donation could lead to her release any time soon. Yet, following former President Obama's last-minute commutation of Chelsea's sentence, she's again in the headlines. Not as a prisoner, but as a young woman travelling the country advocating for social justice—including being invited and disinvited to teach at Harvard just last week. Wow. Just wow. Chelsea's trial attorney David Coombsrecently shared with us his insight on what happened: "Because of our trial strategy, and more importantly because of the efforts outside of the courtroom in positively portraying Manning, the message was that [Chelsea] was not the type of person who deserves 35 years. Ultimately, even though a judge was not convinced of that, a President of the United… In short, Chelsea Manning is free because people like yourself signed petitions, called the White House switchboard, marched in the streets, and gave money to her defense. Thank you! Today, Courage to Resist is at it again. Again, we need your help. We've taken up the fight to support whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner. A young woman facing the wrath of Trump's Justice Department for sharing a classified NSA report with the media that allegedly detailed how foreign agents were attempting to undermine the integrity of the 2016 US presidential election. Just out of the Air Force, she's being held without bail and faces 10 years in prison for attempting to alert US citizens to weaknesses in our election systems—and to hold President Trump accountable for addressing them. This case may become the most substantial First Amendment challenge to the antiquated 100-year-old Espionage Act yet. With the Justice Department now regularly using the Espionage Act against whistleblowers—and not spies as was originally intended—US v. Winner can be expected to set significant legal precedents. Reality and her team of attorneys are hopeful that they will be able to win her release on bail prior to her March 2018 scheduled trial in Augusta, Georgia. Not all of our work makes national headlines. One example, that we're just now able to share, is the case of Iraq War resister Ryan Johnson. Ryan had been AWOL from the Army for over 11 years, after resisting deployment to Iraq. He spent much of that time living in Canada and organizing fellow war objectors. For personal reasons, Ryan returned to the United States, and to the US Army to resove his legal situation. During Ryan's court martial, we agreed with Ryan's decision to downplay his history of activism, in the hopes of getting a shorter prison sentence. In this context, we were not able to raise significant funds for him by way of direct appeals. Regardless, we helped support his wife Jenna while Ryan was jailed at the Miramar Naval Brig near San Diego for much of last year. Recently, upon Ryan's release, we helped the two of them resettle in the Denver area, providing them with over $10,000 beyond what donors contributed directly to their earmarked support fund. Support the resistance. Donate to Courage to Resist today. Jeff Paterson p.s. For up-to-date information about Reality Winner, and to donate to her defense online, visit standwithreality.org. To donate by check to Reality Winner's defense fund, send to Courage to Resist, 484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610, and note "Reality Winner" on the memo line.
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HUBweek Returns Next Week The third-annual Harvard-backed HUBweek festival kicks off on October 10 with events taking place across the city, including on Harvard’s campus. Explore the future being built in Boston at the intersections of art, science, and technology. READ MORE A Changing of the Guard The Harvard community expresses its heartfelt thanks to two School leaders who recently announced their plans to step down at the end of the academic year. Graduate School of Education Dean James E. Ryan announced that he has accepted an appointment to lead the University of Virginia, and Radcliffe Institute Dean Lizabeth Cohen will return to teaching and research following a sabbatical. Colombian President Honored for Historic Negotiation Harvard Law School honored Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos MPA ’81 for his work to end Colombia’s 52-year civil war and to forge a comprehensive peace agreement. Winthrop Renewal Blends Old with New Opened to students last month, Winthrop House renovations preserved the House’s beloved neo-Georgian style while integrating 21st-century amenities such as a student-run grill, an art studio outfitted with a 3-D printer, in addition to increases in study and social space. A LOOK AT: HARVARD’S ALLSTON EXPANSION Student Art Installation Shines in Allston The inaugural design-build installation at the Grove in North Allston debuted earlier this fall. Created by two Graduate School of Design students, “WE ALL” seeks to merge community and values. READ MORE Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Joins Harvard as Strategist for Allston See Progress on Allston Construction in Real-time New Joint Degree Program Bridges Business and Engineering A Virtual Walk Through the New SEAS Campus Art, Discovery, Teaching, and More: Harvard in Allston Podcast HAA TRAVEL + EVENTS HUBweek OCT 10–15, 2017 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS The HUB is where thousands of artists, innovators, and creators will come together from across Boston and the globe. REGISTER TODAY Elbe River Cruise on Frederic Chopin MAY 2–13, 2018 With Harvey Cox and Nina Tumarkin The Elbe River links Prague and Berlin, two of the most fascinating capitals of Europe. REGISTER TODAY ONE LAST THING... A Campus Visit for Harvard’s Reaccreditation The New England Association of Schools and Colleges is set to visit Harvard in late October as part of the reaccreditation process. Prior to the visit, the public is invited to submit comments that address substantive matters related to institutional quality.

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 10/17 Boston Day in Solidarity with African People: Unity Through Reparations

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Boston Day in Solidarity with African People: Unity Through Reparations

Tues. Oct 17th, 7pm-9:30pm

@ First Baptist Church in JP, 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain

free, wheelchair accessible

Come out to hear dynamicpresentations by electoral candidates Akilé Anai
and Jesse Nevel,  community activists who challenged the status quo of
St. Petersburg, Florida over the summer with bold revolutionary
campaigns for people’s power. Anai ran for St. Petersburg’s District 6
City Council seat and Nevel, for Mayor. Their campaigns, and the
people’s movement they represent, exposed the brutal conditions of life
imposed on African people, sparking critical conversations in St.
Petersburg about reparations, gentrification and black community control
of the police. Anai and Nevel will join keynote speaker Omali Yeshitela,
Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, and Penny Hess,
Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee.

Hosted by Uhuru Solidarity Movement Boston.

For more information, please contact:usmboston@riseup.net
<usmboston@riseup.net> and www.facebook.com/usmboston
<usmboston@riseup.net>To register: dsap2017boston.evntbrite.com

Donate to our fundraising to make the event possible:
tinyurl.com/bostonDSAP2017
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