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...avid reader of Agatha Christie novels, Okonjo-Iweala is also an aficionado of African art and Persian rugs. She loves Nigerian food and traditional music, her children say. Her desire to promote what Uzodinma calls “the cultural patrimony,” combined with her love of travel, has translated into her wildly successful career...
Philippa G. Eccles ’09, another inductee and a History of Art and Architecture concentrator, attributed a part of her success to her enjoyment of both Core and concentration courses...
...Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Conn. and author of an acclaimed biography on Balthus, he is deeply interested in exploring the lives of the artists who create the masterpieces he loves. The Harvard Crimson: First of all, why Le Corbusier? What about his life or his art compelled you to write about him? Nicholas Fox Weber: Well, originally, it wasn’t my idea. I had just written a biography of Balthus, and my editor in England said, ‘You know, there’s never been a biography of Le Corbusier...
...Houses.” But despite her varied passions, the premises of all her works are rooted in a common purpose. “I’m not a historian, but rather a literary critic, interested in language, in interpretation, and in the analysis of works of literature, art, and culture. Many of my books, both those on Shakespeare and those on other topics, engage with contemporary life,” Garber says. And as such, she considers herself “as much a modernist as I am a Renaissance scholar...in everything I write, whether it?...
...tracks offer a more in-depth glance into the artist’s thought process. In “I Do It for Hip Hop,” Luda sheds some light on the motivation behind his career: “Luda do it cause it’s art.” And in all honesty, Ludacris does seem to believe in the art of his rhymes and beats, though that’s not to say he’s outgrown gangsta rap. But sometimes, a little bit jarringly, he breaks out of the genre?...