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...sense of wonder Like everything in life, Dada is useless," proclaimed the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara in 1922, when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a café-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous...
...heartrending Brick Lane, another novelist was offering us exquisitely detailed portraits of bodies in transit--Easterners in the West, half-Westerners back "home" in the East, people who don't know where they belong--and master classes in the art of sly and sensuous fiction. Born to a German mother and a Bengali father in India, long a resident of Britain and the U.S., Anita Desai was a global, migrant writer before such a thing was fashionable...
...generation--Desai was born in 1937, only a few years after the likes of V.S. Naipaul and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--foreignness has itself been a driving theme. The classic Desai figure is the title character of her most propulsive novel, 1988's Baumgartner's Bombay, an old-style German long settled in India who comes into fatal contact with a younger German of the mobile, backpacking generation. Nowadays, when millions are living in places not fully their own, foreignness is nothing to write home about. The characters in Ali's and Lahiri's fiction might be the daughters, even...
Come listen to a night of German music sung by one of Harvard’s Holden Chapel Choirs, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, conducted by Kevin Leong. This mixed choir is joined by the Brattle Street Chamber Players, a thirteen person string orchestra. They will play selected works by Bach, Schütz, Rheinberger, and Herzongenberg. Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Tickets $18/14 general; $9/7 students/seniors. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by artists who were ambivalent toward the media. “Dependent Objects” presents the works of German artists beginning in the 1960’s including works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske and Gerhard Richter. Through Jan. 2. The Busch-Reisinger Museum inside the Fogg...