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...Marjorie Garber, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Director of the Carpenter Center, finds that the anniversary affords an opportunity to understand both the historical- and use-value of the building. “Buildings, like other art works, are living things that grow and change,” Garber says. At the Carpenter Center, this has meant adding not only mundane needs not included in Le Corbusier’s original design—such as offices for a sufficient number of faculty members—but also finding ways to accommodate changing artistic...
...think VES and the Carpenter Center are, and should continue to be, inextricably linked. But we will need, indeed we already need, additional space, not only for our courses in film and video production and film studies, but for additional studio work and exhibitions,” Garber says. New artistic media, including increasingly important digital technology, and practice that now often blurs the lines between such previously distinct realms as studio art and video, mean that the Carpenter Center is truly “animate,” as Garber describes it, yet must simultaneously be respected...
...Director David Greene set the 1973 movie on Manhattan's city streets and the climax in a city playground. The other night on "The Daily Show," Rob Corddry accurately described the "Godspell" Christ figure as "a '70s pop rainbow suspendery kind of Jesus." Brown-eyed, frizzy-haired Victor Garber, who 30 years later has a career on Broadway ("Art") and TV ("Alias"), stresses Jesus' gentility in sensitive-clown makeup: teardrop eyeliner and a sweet heart on his forehead. The rest of the young cast follows suit, miming up a storm, sipping imaginary sacramental wine from invisible chalices. Drinks...
...that jeopardizes Harvard’s stature. The VES department is still recovering, both internally and in public perception, from the firing of former chair Ellen Phelan in spring 2001. Phelan, a distinguished painter who brought in top New York artists, was replaced by Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, an English scholar with no formal background in the practice of visual arts. Now that the VES is having its renowned film archive taken away—just three years after a shakeup in its top teaching staff and again without consultation or consent—it should...
...Chair Marjorie Garber, who is also the Kenan professor of English, did not reply to repeated requests for comment...