Welcome to the New Cambridge Observer: News and Views from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Dick Pirozzolo Review: Power, Strategy, the US and the South China Sea
International communications expert Dick Pirozzolo reviews Great Powers, Grand Strategies, a new book urging that the United States play a strong diplomatic role in the Pacific and project naval power as a stalwart against China’s efforts to expand that nation’s influence worldwide.
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Ranger Jean Posts Fresh Pond “Rules of the Road” Signs
Writer, photographer and wunner (someone who walks and runs?) Anita Harris thanks Ranger Jean Rogers for posting “etiquette” signs for Fresh Pond, Cambridge–and confesses to occasional lapses.
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Ani Kasten Ceramics in Concord: Inspirational Art for Precarious Times
Writer/photographer Anita Harris found Ani Kasten’s ceramics show in Concord, MA, inspirational. Comprised mainly of vessels of irregular shapes and sizes, the work is delicate, with seams sometimes held together with thin wires, and replete with unexpected embellishments, cracks. colors and patterns that make the viewer stop to contemplate.
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Fresh Pond’s Ranger Jean on rules of the road
After someone gives Cambridge writer Anita Harris the finger at Fresh Pond (and, to be honest, Harris responds in kind), Ranger Jean Rogers explains rules of the road and etiquette for Cambridge’s public spaces. “We all matter and we all make a difference,” Rogers says.
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Frankenthaler, Picasso at the Clark
On a recent visit to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, Cambridge writer Anita Harris was engaged by the synergy of art and nature expressed in the work of Helen Frankenthaler–and of the museum’s architecture and its natural setting.
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Shozo Michikawa, Japanese Potter Inspired by Nature–at Concord’s Lacoste, June 2017
Cambridge writer Anita Harris was struck by the lightness, strength and movement in the work of Japanese potter Shozo Michikawa, whose forms often embody the unpredictability of objects shaped by natural forces.