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...view, this legend, this icon is artist of the generation, maybe the century.” Over 30 groups performed at this year’s “Cultural Rhythms,” from the Kuumba Singers to the Harard Wushu, which practices a modern version of kung fu. “The performing groups make Cultural Rhythms,” said Matthew K. Clair ’09, the other co-director of the first show. Approximately 20 undergraduate interns at the Harvard Foundation are charged with the task of selecting the groups that appear...
...long time, whenever anyone thought about African art, [they thought,] ‘Well, if it is not traditional then in some way it’s not worthy of serious engagement,’ because, quite falsely, it was claimed that whatever was being created was derivative of modern art in the West,” Blier says. As opposed to the West influencing African art, Blier emphasizes, African art has had an influence on the West. Pablo Picasso, whose cubist work in particular illustrates the artist’s African inspirations, is just one prominent example.This historical disinterest...
...based. Those looking for a romantic chick-flick will find themselves disappointed or even mildly disturbed. “The Other Boleyn Girl” examines the relationships destroyed, the hearts broken, and the lives taken under Henry VIII’s reign, and, from a more modern perspective, the commerce of women between upper-class families. The film, directed by Justin Chatwick, is as tragic and gory as it is decadent and passionate. It tells the fictionalized story of the rise of the Boleyn daughters—Mary and Anne—in the English court of King Henry...
...integrated society that ensures equal opportunity for all its children,” and argued that certain “narrowly-tailored” race-conscious policies may be constitutionally permissible. Yet the use of race, for even the noblest of ends, still remains a contention topic, particularly amongst modern social scientists who rail against race as a mere social construct. A post-racial America may eventually be realized, but the current moment in American society is still fraught with racism and race-consciousness. Until race-neutral policies are able to yield fair and equal opportunities in education, we must...
...popular piety inspired by Marian apparitions, a trend in popular Catholicism that had gained momentum in the 20th century. But the Vatican response also reined in the flip-side of such enthusiasm: unfettered religious hysteria that can occur when white-hot supernaturalism seems to rupture the staid rhythms of modern institutional religious life...