Arts
Mapping Our Cities: A Conversation with Becky Cooper '10
I realized that those maps, in series, told an interesting story about my life that summer. They told an interesting story of the city. In some ways, it was a more honest story than the one I was building [for my boss] because it was celebrating the subjectivity of the mapmaker. Those two realizations, coupled with my having read Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” the year before, grew into this: I wanted to give really small, limited maps to as many New Yorkers as possible and have them map their New Yorks. And then, in series, have a New York emerge from there.
Maestro Mankiw?
Dr. N. Gregory Mankiw conducts the River Charles Ensemble on Saturday afternoon on the Science Center Plaza. Dr. Mankiw was joined by members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to depict a colorful rendition of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for Arts First Weekend.
In Arts Medal Ceremony, Matt Damon Reflects on Marathon Bombings
Speaking before a Sanders Theatre crowd on Thursday, Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker Matt Damon, a Cambridge native formerly of the Class of 1992, said he was glad to be home in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Sommer Highlights Cultural Agency at Allston Ed Portal
In a speech that drew mixed reactions from an audience of about 30 Allston-Brighton residents, Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Doris Sommer described art’s potential for social empowerment both in the community and internationally at the Allston Education Portal Tuesday evening.
Cabot Literary Salon
Kristen DePre '13 (lft) talks with students in The Advocate as a part of the Cabot Literary Salon series. Guests enjoyed wine and food while discussing DePre's thesis on art dealers of the 20th century and the demise of the 19th-century salon.
Land vs. Landscape
Bas Smets, the Principal of Bureau Bas Smets in Brussels in Belgium, gestures while explaining the contours of rivers in Europe. His lecture, entitled "Land vs. Landscape," in Gund Hall on April 18, explained his general approach to his work: interacting with preexisting land to create unique landscapes.
