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...broken shards of a fractured student population that yearns for unity, conviviality and common spaces for extracurricular pursuits. This page has called for the University to construct a student center since time immemorial. There is a desperate need for performance, practice and meeting space on campus, and a student center??€”if properly planned—will solve that problem while also bringing together the disparate groups in the Harvard community...
...Shea said that she hopes to supplement the center??€™s fellow program and state of the art equipment with a new batch of Harvard professors who can work across disciplines...
Coupled with the hand-crafted marionettes, the blobular form is a poignant analogue to Corbusier’s earlier fusion of organic forms and Modernist rigor in the Carpenter Center??€™s design—the result of the University’s mid-century hope that an increased presence of the arts would counter the increasingly mechanistic tenor of society...
...premiere of the film this evening in the Carpenter Center??€™s theater, the project’s two curators, artist Pierre Huyghe, along with Corbusier’s little bird will all watch the screen as their marionette representations, now enlarged into life-size projections, move across the screen. Behind the puppets sits a scale model of the Carpenter Center??€”a set-piece and puppet at once—the whole event having been filmed within the building in which it is being screened...
...anniversary celebrations mark the passage of time, Huyghe’s project provides the opportunity to look anew at the Carpenter Center??€™s position in the university—especially in terms of its role as the focus and birthplace for the instruction of the visual arts. In his filmed puppet show, Huyghe makes what may be one of the strongest statements in his presentation of a modern allegory of the artist and his institutional patron, bound by the strings of inflexible bureaucracy...