Photographer Frank Stewart's Life In Jazz
“You didn’t get a whole lot of history lessons about African-American culture in school,” Frank Stewart told The New York Times in 2017. “My work is culturally motivated. I wanted…Continue Reading →
Gordon Parks’ Camera ‘Was My Choice Of Weapons Against … Racism, Intolerance And Poverty’
The year after the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to travel to Alabama to photograph the lives of African-American families in the Jim Crow South. For…Continue Reading →
‘Saints of Star Wars’ Playfully Reimagines Sci-Fi Heroes As Byzantine Icons
The robot C-3PO cradles R2-D2 as in a traditional Madonna and child painting. The gangster slug Jabba the Hutt sits at the center of a “Last Supper”-ish table. Luke Skywalker…Continue Reading →
Is Harvard’s American Repertory Theater Leaving Cambridge?
A $100 million donation “will enable Harvard to imagine a 21st-century research and performance center in Allston,” the Cambridge university announced today, making it “possible to reimagine the university’s arts…Continue Reading →
Bauhaus: ‘The 20th Century’s Most Influential School Of Art, Architecture And Design’
“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →
‘What Does Winning Look Like?’—Cooper Gallery’s Riveting Look At Blackness During Trump, #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo
Near the start of “Nine Moments for Now,” the riveting exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center in Cambridge through Jan. 21, is a hall of black…Continue Reading →
The Dazzling ‘Rockefeller Beetles’ Debut At Harvard’s Natural History Museum
The earth is home to 450,000 species of beetles, Brian Farrell, the Harvard University professor and curator of entomology, told me recently as he was pulling out drawers of the…Continue Reading →
Gonzalez ‘Running For Governor To Help Artists And Everyone Else, All The Little Guys That Are Being Left Behind’
At the end of a “Create the Vote” candidate forum Monday with Jay Gonzalez—the Needham Democrat running against Republican incumbent Charlie Baker for governor of Massachusetts— Melissa Nussbaum Freeman of…Continue Reading →
The Man Who Took Care Of Winnie-The-Pooh’s House
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
With Protests Of Mila Kunis Appearance, Harvard's Hasty Pudding Finally Agrees To Let Women Join The Show
As perhaps a few hundred people flocked to Cambridge’s Harvard Square to see Hollywood actress Mila Kunis appear in a short parade advertising Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a handful…Continue Reading →