Arts
World Irish Dancing Championships
Dancers shop for dresses with their coach. Dancers from all over the world traveled for the competition, as well as for the diversity of dancing apparel that was available for purchase.
World Irish Dancing Championships
Girls try on Wigs in the expo that was set up outside the ballrooms where the competition took place in Hynes.
BRUTE - Slide Show
The second to last event of the BRUTE exhibit, "Slide Show", in the Carpenter Center projects images onto the wall of the main theater. BRUTE highlighted the projectors' historical importance by allowing five students to choreograph a performance using a combination of image and sound, while viewers walked around the theater.
BRUTE - Slide Show
A man watches as images are projected into the theater in "Slide Show", the second to last event of the BRUTE exhibit.
World Irish Dancing Championships
A competitor practices on the side stage before dancing in the second round of the Men’s 20-21 age group competition.
I Keep Asking You Questions
Black Ivory should have been New York’s answer to Sly and the Family Stone—they certainly were good enough—but due to a combination of poor timing and the limits of a small label they never got the audience they deserved. However, great music is timeless, and even though they weren’t appreciated in their day, Black Ivory found a new audience in a bunch of hip-hop producers with an ear for a great groove.
Words and Dance Combine
Carr and Holmes both agreed that their collaborative art is a form of storytelling, a way of questioning and remaking identity. The event suggested that the interaction between poetry and dance can create new art form with a more powerful effect than either might have produced alone.
In Defense of Being 'Busy': A Response to “The ‘Busy’ Trap”
I’m going to go on a rant and say a lot of things that I might not totally mean if I thought about it harder. But I feel like I need to say it, especially before I leave Harvard. And maybe I’m biased, but I’ve worked in other countries, so here it is: Americans don’t know how to take a break.
K-pop and Social Media
Imagine it’s the morning of your birthday, or the afternoon you’re headed to the airport, or the evening when your new relationship status (#taken) was unveiled. You turn to your cell phone to share this news with your Twitter fam and discover that the top trending topics in the Twitterverse are actually already about you. Sound exciting? Frightening? Bizarre? Welcome to the social media world of K-pop.
Art For Sale
The arrangements of goods in a store are never random. Are they designed merely to entice customers, or can the design of a store be characterized as an art in itself? Writer Kurt P. Slawitschka investigates.
