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...fragmented, less well-understood, less well-supported, and less integrated than their importance warrants. Demand exceeds supply in many areas — class slots in film and creative writing; professional direction and support in theater; practice facilities for music; rehearsal space for drama; studios for the plastic arts. Cross-School and cross-unit collaborations are underdeveloped, and resources have not kept pace with changing needs. Many of our peer institutions have, in recent years, undertaken serious expansion in arts programming, offering us both models to consider and a challenge to act. The arts play a central role...
...practicing artists on our faculty. Is this a result of principle, resources, or accident? Should we be thinking differently about the role of writers, painters, filmmakers at Harvard? Are different sorts of faculty appointments necessary or advisable to bring more artists into permanent positions in our community? Are there cross-School collaborations that would encourage broader engagement of those already present...
...books altogether; rather, he believes that they will become less important in time. “We’ve seen already, in just a dozen years on the web, that our thought takes other forms,” Weinberger says. Take blogs or encyclopedia articles filled with cross-indexed links for examples. Not knowing what tomorrow’s technology will hold, however, even Weinberger must concede that traditional media hold a privileged place among today’s readers.“Books are an established form, and they will always be used for the sort of communication...
...wired,” said Jean Livet, a post-doctoral researcher who worked on the study. Lichtman is also hopeful that the new method will give neuroscientists a more complete picture of the brain. “Right now we can’t really tell if two wires cross or are just getting very close and veering off,” he said. “Wiring will be much easier when every wire is a different color.” Although the Harvard team has already used the technique to study the neural circuitry in mice, the researchers...
...contrast, in Vietnam political expression is so perilous that self-censorship has become an art form among even the most daring painters. Those who do try to cross the line face swift punishment. Tran Luong is one of the country's so-called Gang of Five contemporary artists who first gained international notice in the 1990s for his underwater abstracts. Lately, he has concentrated on performance and video art, documenting the lives of coal miners and street children left out of Vietnam's experiments with the free market. For the past few years, Luong has also encouraged young artists...