A concerted effort should be made to put the arts at Harvard University on par with the study of the humanities and sciences, according to a report released on Dec. 10 by a University-wide task force that examined the role the arts play in campus life.
The report makes a powerful case for the role of [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Task Force Releases Report on the Arts at Harvard
Posted in Arts Policy, Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Arts, tagged Arts, Harvard on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Go See A View from the Bridge.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll be glad you did. Written by Arthur Miller and directed by guest director Eric C. Engel, this is one of the best plays I’ve seen all semester in terms of acting and casting.
Eddie (Ben Clark, ‘09) and his wife Beatrice (Carolyn Holding ‘10) have brought up their orphaned niece Catherine (Talisa Friedman ‘10) since [...]
The Arts of Subversion
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“How can visual art – fragile, easily destructible, and silent – engage in protest, be subversive of a totalitarian political system, the powers that rule by force and fear? The work produced by Soviet nonconformist artists took on a regime that was both politically coercive and aesthetically oppressive. It did so by means that were [...]
