W&M ARTS AND CULTURE ‘Deeply Superficial’

Muscarelle Museum of Art Gives a Glimpse of ’s Voyeurism

ntrigued by image and fame, the artist Andy Warhol brought his camera wherever he went. He took thousands of tabloid-style photo - graphs of the faces of New York’s party scene, and was also commis - Isioned by the rich and famous to create “high art” silkscreen portraits in the style of his famous Marilyn Monroe silkscreens. Taken together, these works con - stitute one of the largest explorations of the human face by any artist. Through Jan. 24, 2010, the Muscarelle Museum of Art is presenting “Deeply Super - ficial,” an exhibition featuring over 100 of Warhol’s photographs, film footage and Andy Warhol Marilyn , 1967, Serigraph, Chrysler Museum of Art; Norfolk, Va., Gift of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. silkscreens of glamorous celebrities, © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York socialites and artists of the and 1970s, including Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and Salvador applied a mass-media aesthetic of serial repetition to the representation Dalí. This cutting-edge exhibition, which opened Nov. 7, offers a fresh of “celebrity,” and reveals how he brought film, photography and paint - interpretation of the ambiguous “voyeurism” of Warhol’s portraits and ing together in a fascinating and radical dialogue. provides a look through the artist’s eyes at his world and his artistic In what is shaping up to be a year of masters, following the modern process, including quotes by Warhol on his subjects. master Andy Warhol, the Muscarelle Museum of Art will be the only The exhibition includes rarely seen works drawn from the collec - U.S. venue for an exhibition of rare works of one of the most famous tions of the Museum of Modern Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, private artists in the history of the world, Michelangelo Buonarroti. “Michelan - collections and recent acquisitions of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. gelo: Architecture as Anatomy, Drawings by the Master,” on view Feb. 6, A major part of the exhibition explores Warhol’s commissioned 2010 through April 11, 2010, consists of drawings, archival pages and silkscreen portraits along with their Polaroid source images. In addi - engravings from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings in the tion to photographs and silkscreen paintings, the exhibition features world, and the ancestral home, Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. The Warhol’s , riveting three-minute film portraits that are works illustrate Michelangelo’s philosophy of architecture and propor - among his most remarkable and least-known works. This is the first tion as he saw it in human anatomical terms. This first-of-its-type exhi - time these experimental “living portraits,” which appear at first bition leads to a wider investigation of Renaissance theory of propor - glance to be still pictures, will be exhibited alongside his instant tion, found in anatomy and architecture. Polaroid snapshots and silkscreen portraits, which unfold temporal - — Muscarelle Museum of Art staff ly like film strips. For more information about this exhibit or the Muscarelle in general, Taken together, the show offers new insights into the way Warhol please call 757.221.2700 or visit www.wm.edu/muscarelle.

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BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRS CHILDREN’S them the war. Between Case’s historically A Long Way Home: With the 14th Armored Tribe Pride: A Visit to William and Mary (Mas - accurate descriptions of the life of average Division in WWII’s Battle for Europe (Alexan - cot Books Inc.), written by Daniel Degnan ’01 soldiers at the time — what they ate, what der Books) is the riveting autobiography of and illustrated by Rachel Follis ’11 , is the weapons they used, Robert “Bob” W. Buntin ’50 as he recounts story of two young children on a visit to the and what drove his service during World War II. In it Buntin College with their their fighting spirits describes the excite - parents, who learn — and his gripping ment of the young what Tribe Pride is tale of Captain Jor - boys ready to fight really about. When dan Cross, Case for their country as the children first get raises the question: they leave family, to William and Mary, could this secret friends and girl - they try to discover alter the course of friends in patriotic the College’s mascot. history? zeal and innocence, As the kids and their only to be met by the parents explore the FICTION, YOUNG ADULT inescapable horrors campus and Duke of Gloucester Street, they Operation YES by Sara Lewis Holmes ’85 of war. Buntin’s honest, straightforward point out all the different things that the (Scholastic) follows style exposes his young self to his readers, mascot could be. When the children finally the accounts of Gari, enabling them to connect and journey with get their answer, it is not the one they are Bo and their sixth- him from his time as a German prisoner of expecting. Help them discover the true grade teacher, Miss war , to his arrival at home, where he battled meaning of school pride, and what it means Loup. With her spiky other demons. to be a part of the William and Mary Tribe. blond hair, tattoos, piercings and love Kathryn Kish Sklar and Beverly Wilson FICTION for improvisational Palmer ’58 have recently released a new In Falling Into the Sun (Spoonbill Cove Press) , theater , Miss Loup is book, The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley by Charrie Hazzard ’80 , the author pours her anything but your 1869-1931 (University of Illinois Press). own life experiences conventional teacher , and the sixth-graders Including almost 300 letters of the woman into a tale about a at Young Oaks Elementary know that things who led the National Consumers’ League mother struggling to will never be the same again. In a town from its founding in 1899 until her death in help her son battle where most students’ fathers are in the mili - 1931, Sklar and Palmer’s book tracks six with mental illness as tary, stability is a luxury and the children all decades of Kelley’s life. During her lifetime, she tries to change know that leaving their friends and homes is Kelley fought for the rights of others. Her her own attitudes just another part of life . When the drama of efforts included about life. Worried for reality heightens, the class decides to imple - helping to pass the her rapidly deteriorat - ment an inspiring fundraiser project that Pure Food and ing son, Kate decides expands all over the country. Drug Act of 1906, to seek psychological help for his increasingly fighting against violent episodes. As Kate attempts to help NATURE children’s labor her son, she begins to rediscover herself as A Moose’s History of North America (Brandy - between 1890 and well, and emerges a stronger and more confi - lane Publishers) , by Walter S. Griggs Jr. 1930, and founding dent woman. The book explores spirituality, C.A.S.E. ’76, Ed.D. ’79 the NAACP along - philosophy, and the closeness of family ties as and his wife, Frances side her ally, W.E.B. this mother and son struggle to overcome Pitchford Griggs, DuBois. Her letters reflect such topics as their obstacles. explores the history improved working conditions for women of North America and children, labors against manufactur - Manson Drew Case’s M.B.A. ’72 new histori - through the eyes of ing interests, and intense participation in cal novel, Legions Now Quiet: The Civil War the moose. This noble, electoral politics, while also providing per - Novel (iUniverse), tells the tale of a Confeder - underappreciated sonal insight into the life of a single moth - ate cavalry captain as he flees General Sher - creature has stepped er who balanced raising her children with man’s legions to inform General Lee and Jef - through to tell its her career. ferson Davis about a secret that will win story of the “true” history of this great conti -

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nent, unmuddled by the pens of humans. The America. Inspired to give back after all of In David Heenan’s ’61 new book, Bright moose has played an instrumental role in the his harrowing life experiences, Bienkowski Triumphs From Dark Hours (University of shaping of this continent. This book not only decided to devote his life to helping others Hawai’i Press), 10 individuals are spotlight - educates on the life of the moose and all of its by becoming a psychologist for the state of ed for their winning strategies despite wonders, but takes one on an informative New York . adversity. From New York City school chan - journey through North American history. cellor Joel Klein and Need a basic understanding of the inequali - his overhaul of the NONFICTION ties of the economy? Robert S. Rycroft ’72 city’s public school In One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself has recently released a classroom-tested text, system, to Shirley by Helping Others (The Experiment Publish - The Economics of Inequality, Discrimination, Ann Jackson break - ing), Andrew Bienkowski and Mary Akers Poverty, and Mobility (M.E. Sharpe). Rycroft’s ing barriers as the ’87 recount the years introductory-level textbook explains income first African Ameri - Bienkowski and his and wealth distribu - can woman to receive family spent during tion, intergenera - her doctorate from their years in exile in tional mobility, pover - the Siberia . In this mov - ty and discrimination Institute of Technology and heading a major ing story, Bienkowski as economists today research university, the people in Heenan’s describes how it was see them in the Unit - book all share one thing in common: their during his childhood ed States. Rycroft triumph over dark times. After telling the years there that he brings these issues up stories of these truly inspiring men and developed his funda - to date, and includes women, Heenan discusses the stratagems mental approach to life: helping others . In a detailed, non-math - used by these key individuals and how they addition to his years in Siberia, Bienkowski ematical examination of the economic situa - can be used by his readers to negotiate the and his family also spent two years in an tion at hand in an equitable and non-biased darker times in their own lives . Iranian refugee camp, four years in Pales - way, providing solid arguments for both tine, and a year in England before moving to sides of these controversial matters. SCIENCE Concerned about global warming? The new book by geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and CHILDREN’S Rob Young ’87 tells the real story about Cece Bell ’92 , an accomplished children’s book author, global warming in The Rising Sea (Island has just released three new books. All three are charming Press) . In it, Pilkey and Young argue that tales of growth, friendship and self-discovery, peppered major cities, islands, coastal towns, and with lovable creatures , like “Sock Monkey ”and friends. millions of people will Bee-Wigged (Candlewick Press) have to come to tells the story of “Jerry Bee ” as he des - terms with the reper - perately searches for friendship in a cussions of global world biased against bees. One day, warming in the com - while walking alone on the sidewalk, ing decades, and if Jerry finds a wig that will change his unprepared, will be life, and tricks the townsfolk into think - caught by surprise. ing he is just another boy. But what will This informative happen when the wig falls off? book gives advice on Itty Bitty (Candlewick Press) is a story about a very how to prepare for the effects of global tiny dog who searches for a place to live. After finding a warming and what it will mean to the giant old bone, he rides all over town in his walnut car to world. make it into a suitable home. The bright, colorful illustrations in this book are captivating, and Itty Bitty himself can worm his way into the hardest heart with his minute physique The William and Mary Alumni Magazine features and big smile. recently published books by alumni and faculty, as Sock Monkey and friends return in Cece Bell’s book Sock Monkey Rides Again (Can - well as works by alumni painters, sculptors, musi - dlewick Press). In this tale, Sock Monkey gets the leading role in a new western movie. He cians and other artists. Please send any publicity is all set to be a big star except for one tiny detail: he has to kiss a girl. Journey with Sock materials, books and samples to: William and Mary Monkey as he learns to ride a horse, lasso a cow and yodel like a real cowboy in this fun- Alumni Magazine , P.O. Box 2100, Williamsburg, VA loving, heartwarming book. 23187. Due to limited space, it may be several issues before a review is published.

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