Arts & Culture
Gaiman as a guide
Author Neil Gaiman and book designer Chip Kidd discussed their collaboration on “Make Good Art” and challenges and opportunities for artists today in an Oberon talk.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Boston Book Festival, Carnegie Medal, Chip Kidd, Doctor Who, Hugo Awards, Literature & Poetry, Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medal, Oberon, Sandman, University of the Arts
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Diane Paulus, on her big night
In a question-and-answer session on Monday, A.R.T. director Diane Paulus discussed her revival of the musical “Pippin,” which won four top honors at the Tony Awards.
Tags: American Repertory Theater, Arts & Culture, Boston University, Diane Paulus, Pippin, Princeton, Steppenwolf, Theater, Film & Dance, Tony Awards
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A ‘Pippin’ of a night
Diane Paulus, artistic director at the American Repertory Theater (ART), took home the coveted Tony Award for best direction of a musical for her restaging of the musical “Pippin.”
Tags: American Repertory Theatre, Arts & Culture, Diane Paulus, Pippin, Theater, Film & Dance, Tony Awards
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Mapping the future
To reverse a decades-long decline in arts and humanities concentrators at Harvard College, three reports from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences propose new courses, art spaces, a networked curriculum, and other steps to bolster the field on campus.
Tags: "Mapping the Future", Arts & Culture, Corydon Ireland, Diana Sorensen, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College, History, Language & Culture, Homi K. Bhabha, Humanities, James Simpson, Julie Buckler, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, Sean Kelly, Shigehisa Kuriyama
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Shining a light on an era
A new work at the American Repertory Theater, developed by members of the A.R.T. Institute and part of the four-year National Civil War Project, explores the story of escaped slave Anthony Burns and the work of the Boston abolitionists.
Tags: American Repertory Theater, Arts & Culture, Colleen Walsh, John Stauffer, Steven Bogart, the A.R.T. Institute, the Boston Abolitionists Project, the National Civil War Project, Theater, Film & Dance
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He strikes a key balance
The teenage concert pianist Drew Petersen chose to attend Harvard Extension School to attain his bachelor’s because the flexibility of the program allowed him to continue pursuing his passion and his fulltime career in music.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Carnegie Hall, Commencement 2013, Drew Petersen, Frédéric Chopin, Harvard Extension School, Harvard Summer School, Juilliard, Ludwig van Beethoven, Matthews, Music, Profile
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Creative bursts from all corners
A daylong symposium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study explored the notion of the creative “aha” moment across a range of fields and disciplines.
Tags: Alex Ross, Arts & Culture, Bill Yosses, Brandeis University, History, Language & Culture, John Aylward, John Plotz, Maureen N. McLane, New York University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ray Jayawardhana, Richard Wagner, The New Yorker, The White House, University of Toronto
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Challenging ‘eureka’ with rigor
Renowned British biographer Richard Holmes, speaking at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, reflected on what biography can tell us about science.
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arts & Culture, Caroline Herschel, Chuck Leddy, Dava Sobel, History, Language & Culture, Isaac Newton, John Keats, Joseph Haydn, Newton’s Apple, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Richard Holmes, Rosalind Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Scientific Biography, Sir John Herschel, Walter Isaacson, “The Age of Wonder
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Catching flux
Stephen Dupont, an award-winning photographer who traveled repeatedly to Papua New Guinea as a Robert Gardner Fellow, is displaying his works showing the intersection of traditional Papuan life and the industrialized world in a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Papua New Guinea, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Photography, Robert Gardner Fellowship, Stephen Dupont
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‘Gangnam Style’ by the Yard
The singer Psy spoke at Memorial Church about his life, his time in the United States, and the runaway success of “Gangnam Style.”
Tags: Alexander Zahlten, Arts & Culture, Carl J. Eckert, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, K-Pop, Korea, Korea Institute, Learning From Performers, Music, Office for the Arts at Harvard, PSY, Seoul, South Korea, Valerie Vande Panne, YouTube, “Gangnam Style”
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