If Bertolt Brecht and Steve Jobs collaborated on a play about economic downturn, the end result might look something like the lifeless, sluggish production of Clifford Odets’s “Paradise Lost” currently running at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.).
Writing not long after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, art historian and biographer Giorgio Vasari described the late master’s “Mona Lisa,” placing special emphasis on the lady’s uncanny simper. “And in this work of Leonardo’s there was a smile so pleasing, that it was a thing more divine than human to behold; and it was held to be something marvelous, since the reality was not more alive,” he wrote.
Although the Task Force Report has had minimal concrete impact thus far, the administration’s open support for the arts has caused a wave of optimism among the student body.
Five Finger Exercise—which runs through March 12 in the Loeb Experimental Theater—examines class, cultural, and familial divisions.
Members of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra perform pieces from Chopin, Brahms, and Kirchner in their third concert of the season in Sanders Theatre.
The Black Arts Festival allows student artists to explore issues of multiculturalism through spoken word, music, film, and other media.
