Arts
Excerpting Senior Writers
Crimson Arts bids these seniors the best and offers a glimpse into their work with selected excerpts.
Harvard Artists Take Shows to Edinburgh
Two productions, both of them written by Harvard students, will be sent toe the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world. This is the first time any HRDC show has traveled to the festival, and this experience will present a whole host of opportunities and challenges to the casts and crews involved.
Beautifully Discordant ‘Hart Crane’ Soars
New student opera "Hart Crane" explores the life of influential 20th century poet Hart Crane, through dissonant music that captures the poets fragile mental state.
Q&A: John Lithgow Talks Arts First
"It’s remarkable how many of the elements of that very first year are still in place 20 years later."
Harvard Folk to Perform at Arts First
Arts First gives musicians at Harvard the opportunity to perform both original and better-known songs in an open setting. The genres of music that will be performed range from classical to pop, many tinged with the flavor of folk, bringing a taste of students’ unique musical sensibilities to the greater Harvard community.
Senior Profiles: Mark J. Chiusano, Writing
THC: What is the defining moment of your arts career at Harvard?
Senior Profiles: Juliet N. Macchi, Visual Arts
THC: What is the defining moment of your arts career at Harvard?
Senior Profiles: Brenda Lin, Technical Design
THC: What is the defining moment of your arts career at Harvard?
Senior Profiles: Emily R. Chertoff, Writing
THC: Who are your greatest influences, at Harvard and in the larger artistic world?
Arts First, arts, slow dancing, widener
Slow Dancing, by David Michalek, is a video installation featuring larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of dancers and choreographers to offer insight into the physics of movement. This exhibition will be on display at the facade if Widener Library every night throughout Arts First week.
Sorcerers, Bards, Fighters
One of my adventurers, Howard, is pointing to the little figure that represents his character, a red-haired elf sorceress. “I’m playing a chick, and I have a huge rack. It’s very important.”
Do It Yourself
I couldn’t say that my roommate was too happy when, upon opening our closet, she found a giant mushroom suspended in hazy liquid. This particular mushroom—also known as a SCOBY, or Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast—was part of my kombucha tea home brew kit, merely one of many culinary tools I had randomly brought back to the apartment.
