Arts
IGP Senior Show
The widely popular improv comedy group, The Instant Gratification Players, garners laughs from the audience in the Science Center on Saturday evening. For their last performance of the year, they honored their three graduation seniors in a series of improv comedy skits.
City Heart
Boston artist Efon Elad adjusts his display at the City Heart Art Show, which features the work of homeless and low-income artists, in the Prudential Center on Saturday. Now in its third year, City Heart's one day show and sale included the work of seventy artists, including Elad, who creates art inspired by scenes from Cameroon and Boston at the St. Francis House shelter in Boston.
A Modern Moment
On January 23, 1957, renowned architect and Dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design Josep Lluís Sert sat down to write a letter. Its mission: Convince the controversial modernist sensation Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, to make his first visit to Cambridge. “Is there any chance of getting you to come here sometime next fall or spring?” he wrote. “Both MIT and this School are willing to do their best to get you to come here.”
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.
