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Rebecca H. Dolan
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Thank God It Wasn’t Mariah Carey: A Playlist of Yardfests Past
Throw on the sounds of the sometimes crowd-winning, sometimes disappointing, most definitely B-list artists who have graced Tercentenary Theater for Yardfests past.
Museum of Capitalism Brings Intelligent, Approachable Exhibit to Tufts
Forget what you know about capitalism — it’s defined as something much broader than our country’s free-market principles at “Museum of Capitalism.”
Capitalism Museum
Visitors can crank The Minimum Wage Machine by Blake Fall-Conroy to get one penny every 4 seconds, or $9/hour (minimum wage).
Arts Vanity: The Harvard Student’s Guide to Crystals
2018 will vault us firmly into the long-awaited and highly-anticipated next era: the Postdigital Age. In apocalyptic fashion, millennials ridden with Apple Watch anxiety and social-media-posing muscle spasms will band together to give up their gadgets for good, with Urban Outfitters, naturally, in the vanguard.
Portrait of an Artist: John Wang '16
The Crimson sat down with John Wang '16 to discuss his public art installation at the Radcliffe Institute.
Portrait of an Artist: Keith R. Hartwig
"I tried to sort of complicate our understanding of why it is we either opt in or opt out of certain surveillance practices."
Looking Local: Boston and Its Contemporary Art
Boston's contemporary art scene is often perceived as a backwater, simply a little sister to New York's. Yet the city has a cultural ecology all its own, one that benefits from a concentration of universities and a strong sense of local community, but that may now be threatened by rising costs of living. The Crimson takes an in-depth look at the area's artistic environment.
Searching for Sites Where Art Meets Politics at Signet Teach-In
“I think as a mechanism of culture, art is inherently entangled in the sociopolitical issues and dramas of the time"
What the Hell Happened: Big Retailers Plagiarizing
Shoppers keeping up to date on the latest legal action may realize that the creative work they enjoy wearing does not, in fact, originate in the places they purchase it.
Arts Vanity: Eight Famous Artworks That Accurately Represent 2016
As the year draws to a close, it comes time to reflect, or maybe in the case of 2016, to forget.
The Frontier between the Arts and Sciences: Harvard's Pioneers
Harvard College promises its undergraduates a liberal arts education, but under its online course catalog, departmental classes are categorized under four distinct headings. The widespread ingrained sense of division between the arts and sciences traces back to popular ideas about brain lateralization: The left hemisphere processes logical information, and the right hemisphere, creative. But what of the students interested in studies that fall within the intersection of disciplines?
Music Video Breakdown: 'False Alarm' by The Weeknd
The man who crashed cars in “The Hills” and burned alive in “Can’t Feel My Face” is alive and well and has apparently learned nothing about the grim realities of mortality.
The Lilypad Offers Up Original Performances in Inman Square
The Lilypad, a tiny performance space and art gallery at the heart of Inman, is a far cry from the frenzy of university life. The venue hosts writers, musicians, and artists and, according to its website, brings audiences “The Most Original Live Music in the World. Every night.”
MFA Opens Strong Slate of Fall Exhibitions
Boston's MFA opened two smaller fall exhibitions this weekend, focusing on contemporary artist Terry Winters and modernist photographer Imogen Cunningham.
Thesis Spotlight: John N. Sakellariadis '16
Soldiers had used the blank bed canvases on their cots to scrawl messages and drawings as they sailed away from home.