Tag: Arts

  • Nation & World

    Oberon is so on

    Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s sister theater space, is turning up the volume with its summer schedule.

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    Here she is, Miss Massachusetts

    Barely a month into the world as a new Harvard College graduate, Loren Galler Rabinowitz has already skyrocketed to success as the new Miss Massachusetts.

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    Where art and advertising collide

    A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.

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    Panel ponders digital divide

    University administrators gather to explore the issues surrounding the expansion of digital scholarship.

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    What comes after

    Joanna Klink, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in the English Department, is out with a new book chronicling a failed relationship.

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    It’s Arts First at Harvard

    The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.

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    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

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    A church of words

    Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.

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    From class to Cannes

    “Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.

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    Lessons from the Earth

    The new Harvard Community Garden, dedicated Sunday, is expected to inspire lessons in sustainability, community, and academic collaboration.

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    Seventeen faculty honored

    Seventeen Harvard University faculty members are among the 229 leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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    Harvard Neighbors Gallery calls all artists

    The Harvard Neighbors Gallery, located at Loeb House (17 Quincy St.), provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show off their artistic talents. This year, artists will be selected for four-week exhibitions (solo or group shows) between September 2010 and May 2011.

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    Stage set for theater festival

    The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.

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    A.R.T. announces two new executive appointments

    Diane Borger has been named A.R.T. producer and Tiffani Gavin has been named the director of finance and administration at the A.R.T.

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    Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy

    D.N. Rodowick, a professor of visual and environmental studies, edits this collection of writings on Deleuze, a French philosopher and prolific writer on literature, film, and fine art.

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    A Salvadoran snapshot

    An HGSE student project over January break leads young students to create photographic art, along with exhibits in two countries.

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    Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography named

    The Peabody Museum has named Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair magazine, Time magazine, and Rolling Stone, the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.

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    Giving back

    Marie Trottier handles accessibility issues at Harvard for the disabled, but she’s also involved in establishing a hospice, and acts on the side.

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    Harvard Staff Artists Community to host first meeting on Feb. 24

    The Harvard Staff Artists Community (HSAC) invites all staff artists to its first meeting on Feb. 24 from noon to 1 p.m. at Area 1 in the Gutman Library conference center.

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    Arts Medalist named

    Kicking off the Arts First festivities, visual artist, writer, and curator Catherine Lord ’70 will receive the 2010 Harvard Arts Medal.

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    The future is now

    Harvard senior reflects on his filmmaking, including a Siberian documentary and a futuristic fantasy.

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    Artistic fun or vocation

    With professional-level standards already in place and the spirit of self-sufficiency a prized commodity, the question remains: Should there be University-funded performance degrees?

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    Entrance, stage left

    Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.

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    In defense of books

    Harvard Library director pens book that in itself is an ode to books.

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    Levin to give Noble Lectures

    Robert D. Levin, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music in the Department of Music at Harvard, will deliver the annual William Belden Noble Lectures at the Memorial Church on Dec. 1-3 at 8 p.m.

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    Gough named Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art

    Maria Gough, a scholar of the Soviet and Russian avant-garde, has been appointed Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.

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    Arts at center stage

    While Harvard the institution is picking up the pace on supporting the arts, Harvard the students — as ever — are busy making the arts their “irreplaceable instruments of knowledge.”

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    Sing sacred, and hide the flute

    A timeline of the arts at Harvard begins in 1636, when Harvard was founded, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had barely 10,000 settlers, and wolves howled at the edge of the endless forests.

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    Big voice, big heart

    The Memorial Church welcomed opera virtuoso Dominique Labelle last week, who was described as genuine and gracious during her master class, proving that divas can be divas without diva behavior.

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    Painting pictures in our minds

    Nobel laureate in literature Orhan Pamuk nears the end of his six-lecture Norton series on the novel’s durable attractions.

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