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...students who are members of the joint program between NEC and Harvard. The concerts, which will take place in Paine Hall, are open to the public. The speakers will discuss a wide range of topics throughout the weekend, concentrating on the first half of the 20th century, and will present new research about the international collaborations that took place during that time. “The theme of the conference is transatlantic connections in the 20th century,” says Professor Carol Oja, the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and member of the Oversight Committee...
...SHOW New York City may have Bryant Park, but we have The Sanctum. On Saturday night, we put the space to fashionable use when six student designers gathered to present their original looks...
...help dismantle common simplifications of Warhol’s work, Harvard art professor Benjamin Buchloh has organized the conference “Andy, 80? Considering the Warhol Legacies on His 80th Birthday” to take place today and tomorrow in the Sackler Auditorium. The conference will present three speakers from in and outside Harvard who will present papers on Andy Warhol in the realms of fashion and the culture industry, sexuality and queer culture, and film and photography. “Warhol is a well known figure about whom people know nothing other than what is superficially known...
Artist Fiona Tan thinks of herself as an “image-maker.” In “Kingdom of Shadows,” Tan’s 2001 short film presented last Sunday night at the Carpenter Center, she explores how the proliferation of images in the modern world—namely through photographs—changes our perception of them. Interviews with collectors and artists guide an exploration of our relationship with photographs—a relationship that, to Tan, “can never be settled”. The screening followed up on a lecture?...
...rights. The outpouring of feverishly imaginative and angry literature that would result could put the old Feminists to shame and make our grandparents blush.All wrapped up in absurd attacks on race, socioeconomic status, and religion that we’ve seen in this election is something fundamental and ever-present in the artistic output in the United States: what it means to be a “Real American.” For McCain to win at this point, ugly parts of America’s past and present would have to be exposed in a way that could result...