In the News It s when you start packing that you realize how many different modes of summer reading there are all requiring different kinds of books, muses Laurence Breiner , a CAS associate professor of English, in an essay in the June 16 Commonwealth. There s reading for the rainy days.
Tradition strongly associates the lazy days of summer with wildly ambitious reading.
Van Gogh in a large part created the modern concept of what it means to be an artist, says John Stomberg , director of the BU Art Gallery, in a June 23 Boston Herald story about the ongoing Van Gogh exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. He was willing to sacrifice everything for his art. Rather than painting pictures that he knew would sell or making art on commission, his art was deeply personal. This was authentic, pure art. Not art for a market.