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...what art does. It takes nature and somehow reveals its very essence through craftsmanship. THC: You teach during the day and write at night. How you do transition between those two aspects of your life? How do you balance them? MR: It can be difficult. But on the other hand it can be really rewarding. For example, because I was preparing a class to teach at Harvard, I happened to go to the basement of the Lamont Library and saw the Mercator globes, and as soon as I saw [them] I knew I just had to put them...
...large part of the coursework is a “special field”, which can be from any department as long as it can be justified why taking those classes will help in writing the senior thesis.“We’re interdisciplinary on the one hand and we’re also global on the other so you can see why each student who comes to us has to really be able to create an area of specialization within the program,” Tatar said.The thesis is seen as the cornerstone of the concentration, Mitchell...
...Hungarian artist Simon Hantaï. A relative unknown in America, Hantaï was one of the more innovative figures in 20th-century Continental art, producing works ranging from the “Écriture Rose”—a 14-by-11-foot canvas covered in hand-reproduced texts of various origins—to the “Mariales” series—comprised of intricately-folded canvases treated with bright colors, forming beautiful and disorienting aperiodic patterns. For a long period, however, he sealed himself off from the public, becoming virtually invisible. Near...
...West” and “Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery,” Burns became familiar with the American landscape. “We were stunned by how few places we could go that did not have the hand of man on it.” So it seems natural that Burns came to turn what he calls his “energetic camera’s eye” onto the man who created the world’s first national park system. The project brought him to campus, home...
...1850s, his reasons were purely practical: to provide sturdy protection for the legs of gold miners. These days, the closest contact with gold I have is the sprinkling of edible gold leaf on my chocolate molten cake from Finale. So I wonder: with pencil, not dirt pick, in hand, are jeans a relic of the past? A bold assertion, followed by a question, that raises doubts about my sanity, I realize. But allow me to qualify my statement. I like boyfriend jeans. I like your boyfriend’s jeans. But I don’t like these...