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The Value of Veritas

By Alexander B. Fabry  • 

It is, I think, occasionally important to ask yourself that odd question: “What the hell am I doing here?” It


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Ceridwen Dovey '03

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“Always write with a compass but not a map,” says Ceridwen Dovey ’03, quoting the contemporary Spanish author Javier Marias


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Ceridwen Dovey ’03

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“Always write with a compass but not a map,” says Ceridwen Dovey ’03, quoting the contemporary Spanish author Javier Marias


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Arts

Titian Tintoretto, Vernonese Awe at MFA

By Alexander B. Fabry  • 

Tintoretto—a nickname meaning “little dyer” after his father’s profession—was the eldest of 22 children (his father must have been busy


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Best Face Forward

By Alexander B. Fabry  • 

Though Harry Potter may get into his common room by saying “Balderdash” or “flibbertigibbet” and walking past a swinging portrait


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HLS Awards Artists at ICA

By Alexander B. Fabry  • 

Precision seems to be very important to artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In one of their most well-known projects, executed in


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Aged Before Their Time

As Harvard’s social pupae gathered Thursday night at the Fogg’s farewell gala (theme: “Ooh La La!”), different social circles soon


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Heynen Revives the Voice of '60s Critic

By Alexander B. Fabry  • 

"On an oriental trip an old soothsayer told me my fortune,” wrote Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1943. “Toward the end he


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A Little Piece of Balteo Yazbeck

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Caracas in the 1950s and 1960s was a modernist boomtown. Croesan oil wealth and a powerful military dictatorship together created


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Alexander B. Fabry

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Just jump, Georgy Bailey: this isn’t “A Wonderful Life.” Here are five great holiday stories in unexpected places. 1. Die

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