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...Angeles. Magic! Tactile sensation, immediate contact, synaesthetic pleasure: These are the artifacts of old-fashioned travel that have been replaced by the passivity of the “commuter.” Even if I bother to look out the window somewhere over South Dakota, the enormous visual distance between me and the ground turns the world below into a series of grids, geometrical shapes and snaking lines. The landscape is pretty, but it’s not real...
...academic atmosphere at times can feel stifling to creativity, if not downright hostile. This move is a sign of positive changes, legitimizing often disregarded creative impulses. Last month in a small forum in Kirkland House Junior Common Room, University President Lawrence H. Summers expressed a strong commitment to the visual and performing arts at Harvard, and his concerns about the disparity between critiquing and creating works of art echo our own. The arts, like the sciences, thrive on application and practice—not just study and discussion...
...program provides a laudable model for expanding arts opportunities at Harvard, and the University should consider applying it to other areas of the arts which similarly suffer from a lack of practical creative instruction. Harvard should seek additional relationships with other schools to further establish its film, theatre and visual arts programs—while working to improve its own departments as well. And to increase flexibility in students’ academic lives, the College ought to consider allowing already-enrolled students to gain admission into this new music program, instead of limiting it to students who apply before they...
Pinker’s analysis of language, emotions and visual perception has made headway in his field and had influence beyond the classroom. The professor jokes that he first realized his work was reaching people beyond just psychologists went The New York Times put his new book, How the Mind Works, on a list of “Worst Books to Take to the Beach.” The list’s author, Pinker says, found the book’s biological focus disturbing...
brin likes to push boundaries. She invigorated Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department, with an unorthodox approach to film and strong feminist perspective. In the film industry, she is known for up-to-the-moment work that toes the line between fiction and documentary. “I’ve kind of straddled the film and the art world,” Subrin says...