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...Zebrafish’s inner ear and visual systems develop very similarly to the way humans’ do, and it only takes four to five days,” he says. “I’m trying to find out what the alcohol’s doing in the inner ear that’s causing the auditory problems in the fish. I’m using that to extrapolate what might be happening in fetal alcohol syndrome in humans…The first round of results showed basically no cell growth in the hair cells...
...balmy afternoon last month, French artist Pierre Huyghe stood in front of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with the building’s designer, the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier. Double parked along Quincy Street sat a limousine and out of a nearby truck spilled props and other movie-making equipment. A militia of gaffers, grips, special effects technicians and camera operators matted down Harvard’s primly manicured grass as they scurried around, barking into walkie-talkies and cell-phones. It was a scene more fitting for the back lot of a Hollywood studio than...
When architectural luminary Le Corbusier first visited Cambridge 45 years ago this fall, he came to begin work on a home for the practice and instruction of the visual arts at Harvard. With his characteristic black glasses sitting upon his beaked nose, Corbusier’s arrival marked not only the birth of a significant piece of the modernist architectural canon, but also a significant—and to this point, unparalleled—moment in Harvard’s historically tenuous relationship with contemporary art and architecture...
This past year the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts hit middle age. In response to what may be an impending identity crisis, the University has thrown the concrete building a series of birthday celebrations. Following on a recent historical exhibition about the building is this “puppet opera,” which weaves together narratives of the building’s commission with Huyghe’s own experience working with a university patron given to bureaucratic excesses...
...shelves this month, just in time for the holidays. Jeweler Robert Lee Morris' The Power of Jewelry looks at his 30 years of work creating high-fashion jewelry and body ornaments for the likes of Donna Karan and Calvin Klein. In American Style, Kelly Killoren Bensimon assembles a visual essay of great style moments in popular culture--from the high-stepping Rockettes, right, to 21st century rappers. And finally, Jamee Gregory opens the door on some of New York City's most exquisite apartments, including that of avant-garde director Robert Wilson, in New York Apartments: Private Views. --By Kate...