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Isabel C. Ruehl

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Arts Vanity: Top 5 Trends in Gen Z Talk

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

French salons produced art of The Enlightenment; the Bloomsbury Group fostered modernist masterpieces; and now, from the mysterious gatherings of youths born after 2000, a new form of poetics is emerging: Gen Z Talk.


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Out With the Old and In With It Too: Thrifting Is ‘In’ in Cambridge

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

Vintage has always been popular, but fashion resale has recently reached new heights.


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In ‘Becoming Astrid,’ Ericsson Finds Freedom Before Writing ‘Pippi Longstocking’

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

Astrid, like Pippi, is a woke, wild role model. Hers is a tale of nuanced empowerment, befitting the classics she contributes to children’s literature.


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Thanking Frankenstein

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

Happy 200th birthday, “Frankenstein,” and thank you for endless scares and endless inspiration.


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Poets Lauterbach and Wier announce Harvard’s new John Ashbery Reading Library

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

John Ashbery’s complete library has just been donated to Houghton Library’s Woodberry Poetry Room.


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Artist Xu Bing Introduces New Forms to Contemporary Art

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

At the Knafel Center, Bing thus introduced the audience to some of his pieces, walking them through his growth as an artist.


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An Invitation to Play: The MFA Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

It’s loud, exciting, and stimulating, and this emphasis on interplay — and play itself — is no accident. Wall text abounds with descriptions of collaboration between the Milne-Shepard families, as well as the subtlety of “Winnie-the-Pooh’s” educational agenda.


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Miller-Havens Gallery Moves Into Harvard Square

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

The first solo artist gallery of Harvard Square has arrived.


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Dead Centre’s ‘Hamnet’ Takes On Parent-Child Relationships

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

Stripped of complex language and any inkling of plot, “Hamnet” reduces the Shakespearean canon to a moving meditation on parent-child relationships. The result is a wonderfully accessible performance that is nonetheless quite nuanced.

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Boomerangs Still

By Isabel C. Ruehl  • 

Boomerangs is a secondhand store in Central Square.

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