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...Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) latest exhibition, “The World as a Stage,” opens with a most fitting visual prologue. Towering over viewers upon their entrance, Rita McBride’s “Arena” transforms the gallery into a theater for the modern art below. Inside the curve of the delicately skeletal set of amphitheater seating, museum patrons interacting with art displace ordinary theater performance on the imagined stage. Taken at face value, “Arena” is a piece of art that makes the life around...
...need for real-world artistic experience and the desire to pursue a liberal arts education, many Harvard artists find themselves forced to supplement their academic work by seeking out off-campus arts opportunities.WHERE CREDIT IS DUEProfessor J.D. Connor ’92, the director of undergraduate studies of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department (VES) and a former member of The Crimson’s editorial board, is the first to admit the paradox of an unflinching course credit policy and the need to find an internship. “We’re not at a place where...
Also passing by unanimous vote at yesterday’s meeting was a motion to create a Ph.D. program in Film and Visual Studies. The program will consolidate course offerings from a variety of departments, including Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Anthropology...
...reform. The Faculty’s plan would, among other things, make course evaluations mandatory for all courses with five or more students and make course grades available early to students who have submitted course evaluations. Other issues on the floor include creating a PhD program in film and visual studies, and making articles published by faculty members available for free. These issues, each of which we have previously endorsed, ought to be passed as efficiently and speedily as possible...
When I chose to come to Harvard, I tried to convince myself that the Puritan façades would hardly affect my undergraduate experience and to focus on academics. But I couldn’t stop thinking about architecture. The visual nature of one’s surroundings exercises a great deal of influence upon one’s life, which is why someone who can’t swim will pay millions of dollars to see the ocean out the window every morning. If anything, architecture is a better reason to pick a school than its name, which...