Tag: Arts
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If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art?
Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI
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Turning debris into haute couture
“Marine Debris Fashion Show,” a student design competition featuring outfits made from items humans dumped in oceans, was a highlight of the Arts First Festival.
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What happens when computers take on one of ‘most human’ art forms?
New play to debut at Arts First Festival examines relationship between technology, humanity, and theater.
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Merging sculpture, technology
Sculpture, technology merge in Ceramics Program as tool offers students another way to work with clay.
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Playwright Michael R. Jackson urges students to heed ‘tickle’ of muse
Students talk lyrics, character conflict, listening to the muse with Pulitzer, Tony-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson at CompFest.
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Blueprints for a live event
At Harvard, cultural historian Harvey Young and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins shared their views on how the arts had changed and what the state of the arts are now.
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Hollywood’s messaging problem: Sometimes people feel insulted
Experts took a virtual look at the role of satire in pushing climate change action, with reviews mixed on a recent film.
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Harvard Opportunes win national competition
Harvard Opportunes win UpStaged National Collegiate Performing Arts A Cappella Championship.
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Jameela Jamil is in a good place
Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.
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Mixing it up musically
Dual-degree students from Harvard and Berklee find ways to harmonize.
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Sampling the city around you
A guide to the arts in the Boston area for the chilly (and the warmer) months ahead.
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Dancing with the future
A multimedia production incorporates dance, music, and spoken word to explore how humans might cooperate with future generations to try to solve problems like climate change. “Dancing with the Future” will premiere at Farkas Hall on Sept. 25.
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What’s up in Boston’s fall arts scene
Highlights of what’s happening in music, theater, and art in Boston this fall.
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Voicing their differences
The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.
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Arts First expands into Allston
Arts First, the annual Harvard spring festival that begins Thursday, will make its debut on the other side of the river with concerts, exhibitions, and a historic work of theater.
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A shape-shifting design for Radcliffe Yard
Radcliffe competition awards two Design School students funds to create public art in a garden on Brattle Street.
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Finance meets humanities — really
Economist Mihir Desai sets aside his usual academic work in a new book in which he uses plain language and stories drawn from literature and art to explain the basic principles of finance and show how deeply they are rooted in the humanities.
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Instagram takeover: Students highlight the arts on Harvard’s account
Undergrads Samuel Fisch and Lance Oppenheim take over Harvard’s Instagram account to highlight Arts First and the student experience of the arts at Harvard.
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Creative momentum at the Ed Portal
Partnership between the University and the Allston-Brighton community has shaped a world of creativity and inspiration at the Harvard Ed Portal.
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Unveiling Lowell House renewal
Central to Lowell House renewal is Otto Hall, named in recognition of a gift from Alexander Otto ’90, M.B.A. ’94.
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Arts First, and at center
Arts First, Harvard’s spring weekend festival, embraces creativity, audience participation.
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Theater, Dance, and Media
A new arts concentration will offer classes this fall, and students will be able to declare the concentration officially in December.
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Tracking Fritz Lang
The Harvard Film Archive is celebrating the work of Fritz Lang with a retrospective running through Sept. 1.
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Art historian Seymour Slive, 93
Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard and one of the world’s leading authorities on 17th-century Dutch painting, died in June at the age of 93. Slive had been battling cancer, but was present at Harvard’s May Commencement, where he received an honorary doctor of arts degree.
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Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.
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On a date, with everyone
Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 204 new members
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 204 new members, including 16 from Harvard University.
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Beneath the ‘Surface’
Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”
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A gallery grows in Allston
Unbound Visual Arts, a nonprofit based in Allston-Brighton, has organized an exhibit in the Harvard Allston Education Portal.