Tag: Charles Eliot Norton
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Campus & Community
Biography of a bronze
September marked the 375th anniversary of benefactor John Harvard’s death, and the beginning of a course that uses his statue in Harvard Yard to instruct students about the realities of two vanished eras.
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Arts & Culture
Artist touts ‘primacy’ of images
The beauty of art, says William Kentridge in his Norton Lectures, is that it makes “a safe place for uncertainty.”
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Arts & Culture
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.