Word: musee
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...year into his role at the Courtauld, Cuno announced that he was leaving London and crossing the Atlantic again to take the helm of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the top U.S. museums. Meanwhile, he edited a controversial book, Whose Muse, concerning the role and fate of art museums. Cuno has defended his book on tour and on the radio—debating Malcolm Rogers, director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), on National Public Radio, and appearing at a Harvard Book Store talk at the Sackler Museum last week...
Does it come from strolling the banks of the Charles, reading academic journals, or dreaming of hometowns far away from the dreary Cambridge rain? Is Harvard a muse, or just a place where people muse? We asked a sampling of creative minds at Harvard about their sources of inspiration and creativity. As might be expected, their responses were as varied as their media. But they all cited one another— students and faculty with ideas and sparks of their own—as a spur to their own inspiration. With such a network of inspiration, there must be lightbulbs...
...have been able to take some great classes which have allowed me to self-reflect on a lot of these things.” Harvard’s environment readily provides the catalyst for his creation: He considers his muse to be “delirium, in any form...
...it’s usually just exhaustion that turns out my best stuff,” he says. Luckily for him, his muse of choice is one of Harvard’s most abundant assets...
Inspiration for his dances does not only come from his fellow students. “My muse is the music. I can always tell if I’m about to choreograph something once I hear the music. If a great beat hits my ears, I can see the dance...I can imagine how bodies fit to each element of the music. The positive competition of the dance world at Harvard also keeps Okusanya “challenged to do a little more.” He calls the atmosphere “competitive good-everyone’s always...