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...adult Japanese graphic novels, fireworks, Walt Disney characters and figure skating in the service of high art—it is inevitable that snide references will be made to the other puppet-movie now playing in Harvard Square, the satirical Team America: World Police. Because Huyghe’s context is not just the academy, but no less Harvard, his challenge may be greater: as Princeton Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers well know, the clash of the low and high is particularly jarring when the worlds of mass-media and academia...
...artist’s frustrations may be the result not of the difficulties of patronage, but with Harvard’s long uneasiness with contemporary art. The University, Norden points out, is willing to consider in an historical context “works that were, in their own time, considered avant garde art.” At the same time, however, “Harvard has a tremendous discomfort with live art—work that has not already received critical approval and can be studied and considered in their periods...
...Irma Flaquer that Erlick creates is a human being who fights her own battles within the greater context of the fight for Guatemalan freedom...
Though the issue of questionable relationships between students and Harvard staff members is typically viewed through the lens of the tutor-student relationship, it is far from the only context in which the problem arises...
...Conversations with students elicit glowing descriptions of energetic Psychology 1 lectures, which are routinely given to audiences of over 200. Other students endorse Historical Studies A-13, a hundred-person lecture course on China, praising the professor for his ability to put readings and subject material into the bigger context and for the interactive questions he fits into class. Similarly, the immense Moral Reasoning course of years past, “Justice,” has been roundly applauded for its engaging lectures—Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel somehow manages to carry on questioning and answering...