Arts
Framing Harvard Film
As the Carpenter Center celebrates its 50th anniversary, film pieces from past and present students show that Harvard’s program in film education coalesces with the liberal arts curriculum and results in a unique, holistic preparation for the film industry.
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.
What The Hell
Members of the Class of 2016 perform in the freshman musical, "What The Hell" in Agassiz Theatre.
What The Hell
Members of the Class of 2016 perform in the freshman musical, "What The Hell" in Agassiz Arena.
No Swimming in the Pool
Into the front door of Adams C-entryway, past the lobby and the dining hall, through a vestibule, and beyond the bustling dishroom lies the Adams Pool Theater.
Shadow Play
Their house was filled with books that no one read, a piano that nobody played, and paintings that nobody looked at. There was a dog that no one loved and a white picket fence that kept nobody out and held no one in. It was shadow play—all the right shapes but no substance. This poster picture of the American Dream was like a set, and they were only actors.
She's Looking Good
“She’s Looking Good” handles this dichotomy extraordinarily well. At no point does the song feel disjointed, nor do any of its constituent parts seem out of place. Given the history of both the artist and the record label, which worked with local blues and rockabilly artists as well as soul, this shouldn’t be surprising. The musicians who defined soul as a genre were actually working within a pre-existing framework.
