ArtWeek 2019
ArtWeek 2019Helping “people access creativity across the Commonwealth” Nell Porter Brown March-April 2019 artweek-2019Screenings from The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. A match-up of poets and...
View ArticleFunny Because It’s True
“Veep” showrunner David Mandel: a profileShowrunner David Mandel guides the final season of <em>Veep</em>— and finds himself politicized. S.I. Rosenbaum March-April 2019...
View ArticleRemaking the Grid
Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswordsPaolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords Oset Babür March-April 2019 paolo-pasco-crosswords-diversityPaolo Pasco ’22 was still a high-school freshman...
View ArticleWhat a Human Should Be
“The Bauhaus and Harvard” exhibit at the Harvard Art MuseumsExploring the Bauhaus and Harvard Lily Scherlis March-April 2019 bauhaus-harvard“We are gathering experience,” Bauhaus workshop master Josef...
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Michele Forman, film professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham: a profile Shane Brodie March-April 2019 Michele-FormanGrowing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1970s and ’80s, Michele Forman ’93...
View ArticleMin Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora Marina N. Bolotnikova Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean DiasporaAuthor Min Jin Lee, a fellow this year at the...
View ArticleAllston ArtLab Prepares to Open
Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open Jonathan Shaw Marina N. Bolotnikova Allston ArtLab Prepares to OpenHarvard’s new, $12.5-million ArtLab, envisioned as an interdisciplinary center for creativity and...
View ArticleThe Allure of Japanese Prints
Japan on Paper, Harvard Art Museums Nell Porter Brown May-June 2019 japanese-prints-exhibitDrawing from the Harvard Art Museums’ extensive collection of Japanese woodblock prints, “Japan on Paper,”...
View ArticleAfrica in Clay
Clay—Modeling African Design exhibitPliable arts from across the continent Marina N. Bolotnikova May-June 2019 African-potteryClay artworks are as varied as the populations of the world: “There are...
View ArticleThe Comic-Book Storyteller
Graphic novelist Amy ChuGraphic novelist Amy Chu S.I. Rosenbaum May-June 2019 feminist-comics-amy-chuWatching Amy Chu, M.B.A. ’99, stride through Midtown Comics in Manhattan’s Times Square is like...
View ArticleWeekend Rock Stars
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt became weekend rock stars at HarvardFor two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand. Jacob Sweet May-June 2019 rock-band-siblingsIn August 2012, Jocelyn...
View ArticleNieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize Jacob Sweet 2019 Pulitzer PrizeEliza Griswold, a 2007 Nieman Fellow and 2016-17 Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, was awarded the 2019...
View ArticleThe Work of Art
The Work of Art Lydialyle Gibson Vision and Justice Radcliffe conferenceLate into the last evening of a sprawling two-day conference on art and race and culture and citizenship—and on the possibility...
View ArticleART Announces Architect for New Allston Theater
Harvard ART Allston architect named John S. Rosenberg Harvard ART Allston architect namedIn the wake of the February announcement of a $100-million gift that would anchor creation of a new facility for...
View ArticleAlexander Rehding
Harvard PortraitAlexander Rehding in brief Jacob Sweet July-August 2019 alexander-rehdingThe son of a dentist and a psychologist, Peabody professor of music Alexander Rehding thought he’d end up in the...
View ArticleDance in Translation
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy” Marina N. Bolotnikova July-August 2019 dance-in-translation-fusionWhen Wendy Jehlen, M.T.S. ’00, improvises...
View ArticlePicasso Reinterpreted
Open BookExcerpt from Suzanne Preston Blier, “Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles’” July-August 2019 picasso-reinterpretedOne may ask what more could possibly be said about Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the...
View ArticleCabaret and Cooperation
Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale brings people togetherPink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together. Jacob Sweet July-August 2019...
View ArticleA Bridge to the Past
Historic New England’s Eustis EstateHistoric New England’s Eustis Estate Nell Porter Brown July-August 2019 eustis-estateA recent tour of the Eustis Estate, perched on a knoll in Milton, Massachusetts,...
View ArticleA Fragile Relationship
Edward S. Steinfeld reviews Ezra Vogel’s “China and Japan: Facing History”The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan Edward S. Steinfeld July-August 2019 china-japan-historyAt a time when the...
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