Campus Arts
Photographer Taylor "Works the Line"
Taylor's photos are colorful depictions of powerful, contradictory images: first-generation Mexican Americans working as Border Patrol Officers, gun-toting Mexican soldiers amiably giving Taylor directions; air-conditioned immigration offices alongside empty detention centers; and perhaps most movingly, apprehended drug smugglers who were unknowingly used as decoys by their colleagues.
HRO Delivers on Dynamic Program
While the concert had its lows, the few peccadilloes pointed out here did not truly outweigh the many strengths displayed on stage. The orchestra was technically impeccable throughout the performance (or at least seemed so from a third-row balcony seat), and the music was nothing if not enjoyable.
Laverne Cox and Transgender Representation
Cox's visibility has had notable ripple effects in the mainstream and has given Cox a platform from which she has been able to advocate for transgender women to tell their own stories
Undergraduate Composers Share Music, Selves
On Feb. 22 at Paine Hall, the Harvard Composers Association presented “New Works,” a concert in collaboration with the Juventas New Music Ensemble premiering original pieces from undergraduate classical composers.
"IVY" Previews Bring a Thoughtful, Artistic Perspective to Harvard Student Life
“Most of what we do is fulfill other people’s expectations. You just have to meet them, and you win,” muses a young, female voice. “When what you expect of yourself changes, that’s when things get tricky.”
Medieval Music Lessons
The lecture-performance event, which took place Sunday, was a collaboration between Kelly and the Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. Kelly, a music professor who teaches the popular Gen Ed course “First Nights,” took his First Church audience through the processes that took Europe from “ut-re-mi” to polyphony, a musical texture Kelly describes as Western music’s greatest contribution to the world.
Trumpets Herald New Office of the Arts Ceramics Studio in Allston
The studio was formerly housed across the street at 219 Western Ave. It was moved in September to make space for the buildings slated to be built on Harvard’s Allston campus.
Breaking Boundaries, Forging Bonds Through Dance
The longest-running student dance company on campus, the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company promotes inventive performances and numerous dance styles.
Roving Reporter: Cultural Rhythms
LL Cool J and student organizations representing different ethnicities came together onstage Saturday at the Harvard Foundation’s annual Cultural Rhythms festival, which celebrates Harvard’s diversity through student performances. The Crimson sent a roving reporter to interview audience members and performers about their experience at the festival.
Artist Spotlight: Achy Obejas
Novelist, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Achy Obejas visited Harvard on Thursday, Feb. 20 to talk about her novel “Days of Awe.”
Kirkland Bowtie
"How to Tie a Bowtie with the Kirkland Gentlemen" blocking group painting in the Kirkland B Basement. Various blocking groups have made paintings along the basement hallway.
Heart Monster
A nondescript heart figure in the Kirkland House B Basement. Various blocking groups have painted along the Kirkland hallway.
Kirkland Basement Playlist
A close-up of a piece entitled "Domestic Ratchet Playlist" painted in the Kirkland House B Basement. Various blocking groups have painted along the Kirkland hallway.
