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Kandinsky didn't paint much during the war years, but in 1921 he was asked to join the staff of the forward-looking Bauhaus art school in Germany, and the chance to teach turned his creative light up full again. His theories about pure form and color became student exercises; this was when he started painting his signature hard-edged abstracts: bright, lighthearted, with their own internal logic. Black lines, now severely clear-cut, are a skeleton for vividly colored shapes on a pale background. New motifs appear: jagged saw teeth, rainbows, triangles, circles. Though none of these canvases have...
...board comprised of undergraduates to advise preceptors and program administrators.“I’m interested in a collaborative process, in hearing compelling ideas from my colleagues in the program and in departments, from the deans, and from the students whom I’ve invited to join the Writing Program’s Student Advisory Board,” he wrote. “So in terms of when changes are implemented, I would hope to use the coming academic year to pilot some initiatives and then assess their efficacy before codifying anything.”Most...
...Volunteered extensively at your place of worship, you might be interested in the Islamic Society Spring Dinner (Quincy Dining Hall, 8:30 p.m., $5), where there will be Iraqi and South Asian foods. But be sure to come in cultural attire. You can also join in on the Havdalah on the Charles (meet at Harvard Hillel, 8 p.m., free). There will be food...
...congregate. “A bunch of the people at The Darker Side are interested in rap and hip-hop culture,” Thorn says. “It’s a part of our department that we have our own freestyle battles sometimes. When new members join our station we usually make them freestyle. We have to test out their rhyming skills.”Outside of the community that TDS has created for the art form, knowledge and support for rap remains obscure in Harvard culture. OUTWIT competitor Jarell L. Lee ’10 feels...
...which oversees the University’s multi-billion dollar endowment—announced a new managing director of real estate investments Tuesday, after the position had remained vacant for over a year. Daniel W. Cummings, a former managing director at private equity titan The Carlyle Group, will join the Company at the end of June. The appointment comes at a crucial time, with University officials scrambling to adjust budgets to accommodate a projected 30 percent drop in the endowment for the fiscal year. HMC’s previous director for real estate, David Ferrero, stepped down...