Visual Arts
CGIS Debuts Portrait Exhibit
A portrait of renowned government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 smiles benignly alongside a portrait of staff member Medardo A. Landaverde and 26 other portraits as part of an exhibit launched yesterday in CGIS South.
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An observer looks on the paintings of artist Bettina Burch displayed in the basement of CGIS South. Bettina's exhibition, Let's Hang Out: Portraits of CGIS, opened yesterday and includes 30 portraits of CGIS staff members, including Burch's self-portrait, pictured above next to a painting of renowned government professor Harvey Mansfield.
A Call to Arts
Although the Task Force Report has had minimal concrete impact thus far, the administration’s open support for the arts has caused a wave of optimism among the student body.
A.R.T.'s 'Gatz' Takes Classic Tale to Stage in Novel Adaptation
Borrowing established stories and adapting them for the stage is hardly unusual in today’s theater culture, where original writing is hard to find.
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Narrator Scott Shepherd, who plays Nick Carraway, concentrates on reading “The Great Gatsby” aloud as the characters in the book come to life with a roaring party around him. “Gatz,” an Elevator Repair Service production running at the American Repertory Theater, sets the popular Fitzgerald novel in a mundane office that gradually morphs into the tragic world of “Gatsby.” Poignant and arresting, “Gatz” will show at the A.R.T. through February 7.
'Albert Herring'
For a week in mid-February, the Harvard community will have one more way to witness the exchange of virtue for ...
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Narrator Scott Shepherd, who plays Nick Carraway, concentrates on reading “The Great Gatsby” aloud as the characters in the book come to life with a roaring party around him. “Gatz,” an Elevator Repair Service production running at the American Repertory Theater, sets the popular Fitzgerald novel in a mundane office that gradually morphs into the tragic world of “Gatsby.” Poignant and arresting, “Gatz” will show at the A.R.T. through February 7.
Allston Delay Prompts Museum Curator To Leave Harvard
With the plans for Harvard’s new contemporary art museum in Allston currently up in the air, Harvard Art Museum’s curator of contemporary art Helen Molesworth will leave Harvard to become the chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, ICA officials announced earlier this month.
