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...Though the task force’s recommendations remain an open question, last month’s $30 million donation for the arts from David Rockefeller ’36 should help implement the answer. Thomas Lee, the program manager of the OFA’s “Learning from Performers” series, looks toward new housing and work space in Allston in order to support longer residencies from practicing artists. Citing the positive impact of the Harvard Dance Center that opened in 2005, Ho expressed a desire for more space and facilities, as well as a stronger...
...While Faust’s arrival was accompanied by buzz claiming she would be Harvard’s first artistic president, the campus she took over already supported a flourishing arts community in which several important developments were underway. Harvard annually hosts some 450 musical performances and 40 to 55 theatrical productions, and between 2700 and 3000 undergraduates participated in Harvard’s art-making opportunities last year, according to OFA director Jack Megan...
...College Theatre, which took the place of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre on Holyoke Street this October, provides one such outlet. The 272-seat theatre features state-of-the-art lighting, a mechanized orchestra pit, and a rehearsal and performance space as large as its main stage. Its location, Faust observed in remarks at the Theatre’s opening, “literally and figuratively made arts more central at the University...
...Making arts more central at Harvard has been one of the defining themes of Faust’s brief tenure as president. As Megan put it, she has attempted to support the community in “small but substantive ways,” such as setting up a student art exhibit in Mass. Hall or simply attending several undergraduate productions...
Also receiving degrees will be spiritual leader Karim Aga Khan ’58; Yale developmental psychologist James P. Comer; Princeton art historian Wen C. Fong; Columbia neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel ’52; federal judge Damon J. Keith, women’s historian Gerda Lerner, Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy, University of Chicago biologist Janet D. Rowley, author J. K. Rowling, and former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson...