Daily Archives: October 5, 2012


CREATIVE TIME: Jennifer Huang

To make something is to extend oneself. The making of things contradicts man’s ever-present fascination with death and transience. The Flemish Renaissance theme of vanitas warns that our life is transient, but the paintings, with their brilliant bouquets and subtle symbols of death and decay, outlive its warning.

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CREATIVE TIME: Jimmy Li

Inequity is a growing problem both here in the United States and abroad at the global level. This trend of a widening gap between the rich and the poor is extremely concerning to me because it belies growing instability in world political systems. We have observed these symptoms in the past and in the present: in the decline of old empires, in troubled countries such as Greece, even in our own United States.

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