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Escobedo Exhibit Makes SOCH Penthouse Personal
By JENYA O. GODINA
Friday, November 06, 2009 1:07 AM
The intricately detailed, visceral, and abstract images on display in the Penthouse Gallery of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) until November 12 are reminiscent of the complex and convoluted inner workings of the human mind itself. The intensely personal process through which the artist, Kayla A. Escobedo ’12, created these works is the source of this effect and the defining characteristic of the exhibition.
Going Underground: Biggers’ New Exhibition Explores Slavery
By ALEX E. TRAUB
Friday, November 06, 2009 1:08 AM
“This piece is...a little more surreal in context and performance,” Sanford Biggers, the 2009 Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist, says of his most recent exhibition which opens in Memorial Hall today. An imaginative artist who experiments in many types of media, Biggers’ innovative and bizarre work has been shown in museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney in New York. His 2007 piece, “Blossom,” is a 15-foot tall reconstruction of a tree whose trunk penetrates and supports a life-size piano; this oddity is characteristic of Biggers’ large installation pieces, which have touched on subjects ranging from the state of hip-hop to Eastern mysticism.
It Ain’t Always Sunny in Boston: Films Lie About City
By ANDREW F. NUNNELLY
Friday, November 06, 2009 1:53 AM
Everyday, regardless of Boston’s variable weather, thousands of graying tourists stumble through the gates of Harvard, flattening students, taking pictures of every irrelevant detail possible, and saying things like “Wow, this is just like a movie set.” Recently though, this has become a literal reality as large film productions roll into Boston and Cambridge. Ben Affleck has graced the grimy pit of the Harvard T station, John Hamm has been spotted outside burrito joints, and Katie Holmes has been mobbed while eating cupcakes with her daughter Suri. Perhaps it’s just my Boston-is-always-cold-and-dark pre-winter bias kicking in, but I find myself slightly skeptical about Boston’s increased exposure.
‘The Wire’ Lays It On the Line
By GRACE E. JACKSON
Friday, November 06, 2009 2:02 AM
Sprawled on a couch, bloodshot eyes fixed on the screen, five hours into the third season: this is not the scene commonly associated with social responsibility. Yet this past Thursday, stars of the acclaimed HBO series “The Wire,” together with eminent Harvard professors, proposed that the poignant images of socio-political ills television can invoke are often the most powerful tools that can sensitize viewers. An event organized by the Department of African and African American Studies, the Boston Foundation, and the Ella J. Baker House, “The Wire at Harvard: Lessons for Policy and Politics,” served as a call to action to the show’s many fans.
HUB Marches Through Time
By CLIO C. SMURRO
Friday, November 06, 2009 2:01 AM
This past weekend, over 200 Harvard University Band alums flocked to campus to celebrate its 90th anniversary, trumpets and French horns in hand. The weekend’s festivities, meant to recreate for grads the unique social and musical experience of being in the Band, included a number of events, such as the annual montage concert on Friday night in Sanders Theatre, the halftime show at the Saturday afternoon football game against Dartmouth, a post-game concert at Dillon Field House, and a special Sunday brunch in the band room.
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'Swords' (Polydor) -- .5 STAR
By SHIJUNG KIM
Friday, November 06, 2009 1:19 AM
Steven Morrissey—although 50 years old and no longer bearing the sharp chin and product-heavy ’80s hairdo—continues to be exceptionlly prolific, having issued nine solo albums since the disbanding of The Smiths in 1987. “Swords,” the second Morrissey album released this year, is a compilation of 18 B-sides off singles from “You Are the Quarry” (2004), “Ringleader of the Tormentors” (2006), and last February’s “Years of Refusal.” Like those albums and unlike Morrissey’s earlier solo works, which parted little musically from The Smiths, “Swords” goes beyond jangling guitars and charmingly unstable vocal intonations, instead choosing to entertain other interests. And just as those albums were disappointing to those yearning for more of The Smiths or at least something exciting from their erstwhile frontman, “Swords” continues Morrissey’s downward spiral with an unwieldy collection of obvious throwaways.
‘Sorcerer’ Conjures Whimsical Fun
By BRIAN A. FELDMAN
Friday, November 06, 2009 1:50 AM
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Sorcerer” follows a fairly simple recipe: combine a cast of eccentric villagers with a powerful love potion and see what hijinks ensue. The new production by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players of the classic opera and satire of early Victorian life, which opened last night and runs through November 15 at the Agassiz Theatre, aims to successfully convey the piece’s whimsical nature.
Project Zero Returns to Square One of Artistic Education
By DANIEL K. LAKHDHIR
Friday, November 06, 2009 1:06 AM
“Everybody assumes that to be a scientist or a mathematician requires thinking and problem solving and so on. But a lot of people assume the arts are just a matter of inspiration, or God giving you a message, or primarily about emotions,” says Howard E. Gardner, a former co-director and one of twelve Principal Investigators of Project Zero, a research group at the Graduate School of Education.
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Calories for the Harvard Soul
By REBECCA A. COOPER
Friday, February 27, 2009 12:09 AM
Dear bagel scoopers, Brain Break crumb eaters, steamed broccoli mound-makers: This column is for you.
Around Harvard Square in Foreign Fare
By ALIZA H. AUFRICHTIG and MARIANNE F. KALETZKY
Friday, April 11, 2008 5:42 PM
With spring break already two weeks in the past, our tans have already faded, and we’ve already forgotten most of the inside jokes that inspired the captions in our facebook albums.
Economy Collapses, Artists Start Revolution
By RUBEN L. DAVIS
Friday, February 27, 2009 12:33 AM
By now you’ve probably heard that the world as we know it is spiraling out of control, and no one—not even Savior-In-Chief President Obama—knows what to do. Everyone, from salt-of-the-Earth Middle Americans, to class of 2006 Harvard economics graduates, is losing his job. That more than a few current seniors will likely be spending the coming year living in Mom’s house, “working things out,” has gone from an unspoken reality to a common experience. Who knew a little banking crisis could make such a stir?
TV Is Art--Why Don't You Watch?
By ALLIE T. PAPE
Friday, April 25, 2008 8:47 AM
“I don’t watch TV.” That’s got to be the most common response I hear whenever I get giddy about my favorite subject, and while it isn’t exclusive to Harvard, I encounter it here most often. I’ve never heard any of my classmates say that they don’t see movies, don’t read novels, or don’t like art, but when it comes to the idiot box, the claws come out.
Paging Crichton, 'House' Hurting
The death of Michael Crichton ’64 and the end of his “ER” leaves a void on TV
By ANDREW F. NUNNELLY
Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:28 PM
Nearly buried in the non-stop media coverage of Election Day was a much sadder story, especially for those who, like me, grew up idolizing Velociraptors and wanting to visit Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton ’64 died of cancer at the age of 66. As fate would also have it, “ER”—the primetime TV medical drama Crichton created, wrote, and produced—is in the midst of its 15th and final season, ending after February sweeps in 2009. As can already be seen in other medical dramas like “House,” Crichton’s absence in this genre will be strongly felt.
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