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...back to Great War glamour and intrigue—a time that recalls Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky and Diaghilev all meeting for one legendary, mouthwatering dinner at the Paris Majestic, in the midst of the intellectual phenomenon that was the early 20th century modernist movement. Diaghilev introduced the novel idea that dance must exist not on its own but as a climactic collaboration between first-rate painters, musicians, and composers. The willingness of men from Picasso, Matisse, and Rouault to Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky to collaborate with Diaghilev on his creations signaled the inauguration of a new interdisciplinary...
...fall of 2007, Larissa H. Zhou ’10 and Trevor J. Martin ’10 took Engineering Sciences 147: “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences,” taught by Edwards. Edwards, a biomedical engineering professor known for his development of an inhalable tuberculosis vaccine, urged his students to come up with innovative products for their class projects. The idea of inhalable food was suggested, and from there, the project was born...
...large pieces of paper face one another in artist Sanford Biggers’ studio at Harvard. On one wall hangs the sketch of a cross-section of a slave ship (“I have no idea what that’s about,” Biggers says). On the other, a piece of brown wrapping paper lists some of Biggers’ current projects: a multi-venue installation in Philadelphia that will trace locations from the Underground Railroad, a sculpture and floor design for a new high school in the Bronx, a series of dance vignettes based...
...thing I know,” from “Josephine Baker, ‘Bronze Venus,’” for instance—are completely fabricated. Codrescu shows little regard for facts, suggesting a subversive component to a superficially academic exercise. An idea that he attributes to one Renaissance philosopher may belong to another. It’s not even clear whether the narrative skeleton of the book—a chess game between Tristan Tzara, Dada creator, and Vladimir Lenin, Communist leader in 1916’s Zurich—ever really occurred...
...Winthrop, Mather to the Quad, it has been a fixture of the College’s House system, a concept older than the 12 upperclassmen Houses themselves. But some Harvard administrators say that after a history spanning two centuries and an ocean, the Senior Common Room—an idea originally conceived at British universities—is in need of an extensive reevaluation.According to the Report on Harvard House Renewal, which College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds released to the public last Tuesday, the SCR is an “outdated” and disconnected component of House life.Topping...