Campus Arts
Miss Margarida's Way
Elizabeth Leimkuhler '15 engages with the audience in Miss Margarida's Way in Adams Pool Theater on October 8.
Air Travel
Maya M. Park ’16 and Ema H. Horvath ’16 perform in the last night's performance of "The Thing About Air Travel."
Hacking Future: MIT Conference Explores the Interaction of Arts and Technology
The next day was a full day of "hacking" during which teams publicly pitched their solutions to some of the challenges discussed at the panels.
"Yellow Moon" Rises in the Ex
“Yellow Moon,” the story of two teenage outcasts who fall in love, opens with murder. Lee (Eli W. Pelton ’16) kills his abusive stepfather with a knife in the midst of a passionate brawl. Leila (Juliana N. Sass ’17) witnesses the murder and together, she and Lee run away to the north Highlands of Scotland.
Harvard Monday Gallery Reframes Art of Postcards
In the Harvard Monday Gallery’s latest show, “Of Models, Memory, and Imagination,” the postcard itself became a medium for aesthetic scrutiny. The show, which ran Sept. 23. and Sept. 30 at 6-8 Linden Street, marked the fifth exhibition put on in the Monday Gallery.
Wynton Marsalis Discusses History of Jazz
The trumpeter returned to Harvard for the latest in his lecture series "Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music." Beyond his anecdotal recounting of the music’s social and cultural history, Marsalis demonstrated the intricacies and histories behind trombones, reeds, and trumpets.
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A banner for the Youth Arts Festival at the Roslindale Community Center. The festival is part of broader efforts to reinforce the importance of the arts even as budgetary concerns put them increasingly on the chopping block.
Allston Education Portal Exhibits Contrasting Painters
“If we don’t take risks then we never learn,” Lee says. “I feel like I’ve learned more from my mistakes than my successes. That’s why I try so many different techniques.”
Artist Spotlight: Nicole Aquillano
Nicole Aquillano, a ceramic artist and former engineer from Fort Point, Mass., creates pieces of pottery inspired by the architecture around her. Using photographs of her favorite buildings, she copies the designs onto her work and fills them in with blue and clear glaze, creating a dripping effect that she feels gives the works a sense of nostalgia
"Hold Your Tongue" Speaks Out
Global Arts Corps’s “Hold Your Tongue; Hold Your Dead,” which ran through September 28 and was put on by ArtsEmerson The World on a Stage, isn’t a satisfying play. Then again, it isn’t intended to be; this play aims to convey hard, unresolved truths. “Hold Your Tongue” follows the lives of two intersecting families as they struggle to find happiness, or any sort of resolution, in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The script and actors treated their material with a sincerity that allowed the overall atmosphere of the culture to pervade the production.
“Everybody” Overreaches
"Finnegans Wake” is, if less maligned, not much more understood. Or read, for that matter—the book’s reputation as an impenetrable thicket of allusions and nonsense words leaves few willing to hack their way through the entire thing. Daniel W. Erickson ’14, writer, actor, and director of “Here Comes Everybody,” hoped to change that with his one-man production. The piece, which ran at the Adams Pool Theatre through September 28 was Erickson’s attempt to render a colossus of world literature approachable. What was intended to be a conversational manner, however, came off as forced and glib, largely obscuring what was meant to be an intimate and personal work.
"Air Travel" Lands in the Ex
How do we as humans cope with grief—is there a formula for healing? “The Thing About Air Travel,” which opens tonight at the Loeb Ex, presents a main character who deals with the loss of her brother by imagining him as a dog. By incorporating surrealist elements, up-and-coming playwright Max Posner lightens an otherwise melancholy premise of a family trying to deal with a significant loss.
