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Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber called for more positive patronage of the arts—support that nurtures rather than constricts the artist??s freedom—by public and private institutions in a discussion of her new book last night at the Harvard Book Store. Garber—a world-renowned expert on Shakespeare, chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts—discussed the paradox of patronizing the arts, namely how benefactors can potentially stifle the creative freedom of artists. To a small audience...
...lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna to campus each semester. Jobin—who is also this year’s Clifton Visiting Artist, a position given by the Office for the Arts and reserved for a young female artist??talked about her professional life and based discussion on students’ questions. Jobin arrived at Harvard as a 16-year-old and became one of the first students to concentrate in women’s studies, with a minor in music. Finding that women composers were...
...found new meaning as a generation of Chinese artists now ask What if every European collector bought just one of my paintings? As Zhu Qi, author of the essay Art Capitalism in China writes, showings of Chinese art have become an “assessment index of artist??s position in art scenes and of his market price,” as opposed to a referendum on their talent. This is a Bull Market in which 70 percent of all collectors of contemporary Chinese art have suddenly appeared over the past three years. It is as if somewhere...
...length dress that was scintillating under the bright stage lights, Kovalevska strode gracefully to the left of the podium and nodded slightly to Levine before he struck the downbeat of the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s opera, “Eugene Onegin.” The young artist??s first entrance thirty seconds into the strings’ introductory tremolo was rather shaky, as if she had been caught off-guard. Although the orchestra tended to overpower her voice at times, Kovalevska delivered a very musical interpretation of the scene. With her sleek brown hair half...
...huge, the figures of the women are huge, the colors are huge, and yet in this piece, Wein utilizes a sense of restraint that allows his brush-strokes to meld together rather than drown in each other. In “Albert Wein: American Modernist,” the artist??s versatility, not only in the media he chose but also in the style of the images he presented, comes to the forefront. At his best, Wein manages to blend everything together to create a tempered oeuvre whose elegance and emotion is both a manifestation of joie...