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...first recorded mention of a Harvard student artist was probably in 1652, when a few Harvard boys spent their Sunday afternoon performing a play. Their shenanigans were rewarded with disciplinary action—they had shamelessly been “impersonating the devil on a Sunday.” It’s a story that former OFA Director Myra Mayman finds particularly apt. “The first mention I could find of anything having to do with the arts…was bad behavior that could be punished,” she says. “Anything after...
...campus that lacks strong central programming in the arts has a challenge in balancing the needs of different artist constituencies. Some argue that Harvard’s resistence to preprofessionalism in the arts requires it to provide opportunities for the widest range of people possible—as exemplified by an extracurricular climate where anyone can start an a cappella group. On the other hand, the small but noticeable group of extremely talented artists demands more top-end professors, facilities and curricular opportunities—at the risk of otherwise losing these students, many of whom prefer the liberal arts...
Bergson entertained ambitions of becoming a professional artist until a gamble by his brother helped him win a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, according to his daughter, Judith Bergson...
...what he finds best about music at Harvard, he says, is the passion each artist brings to it. “It’s not a conservatory where this is your life and you have no choice but to do music,” he says. “Everyone does it because they love...
...People entering galleries make the conscious decision to view and interact with what is on the walls,” she says. “It’s an art safe zone, where the artist can hang what he likes with no concerns that the public will be shocked because they didn’t expect...