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Arts & Humanities Saturday Is for Funerals <h4>Harvard University Press, May 2010</h4><h5>By Unity Dow and Max Essex</h5> DateSeptember 2, 2010 Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Trending Medical School neurobiologist wins prestigious Brain Prize Harvard further expands financial aid to ease access Racing to catalog, study deep-sea biodiversity Good genes are nice, but joy is better Researchers find key to healing muscle injuries in elderly Max Essex, the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, and Unity Dow track the Botswana HIV/AIDS crisis through heartrending narratives of those affected by the disease — an estimated one out of four adults.
Arts & Humanities ‘Africans in Black & White’ Arts & Humanities ‘Africans in Black & White’ Spurred on by her mother, the beautiful Salome requested from Herod the head of John the Baptist on a platter (Mark 6:14-29). Starting with Titian, artists often portrayed the bearer of the dish with John's severed head as a young black boy. In Rembrandt's etching, a black boy, clutching the empty dish against his chest, is shown observing the killing itself. The boy's humanity and innocence stand in sharp contrast to the brutality and aggressiveness of the executioner. (Detail of image) Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Beheading of John the Baptist, 1640, (detail), Harvard Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg, 41.2000 Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College
