Lectures tagged "art"

Pinker and Goldstein: Science, Fiction, and God
Steven Pinker
February 17, 2010
01:23:00
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses mind-body problems with her husband, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.
Steve Almond 101
Steve Almond
February 16, 2010
01:16:00
Author Steve Almond reads from his new book, This Won't Take but a Minute, Honey, and discusses his unique take on the art and craft of creative writing. This lecture is particularly geared towards creative writing students and beginning writers.
Elizabeth Kostova: The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
January 19, 2010
00:40:44
Bestselling novelist Elizabeth Kostova reads from her second book, The Swan Thieves.
Cultural History of the Great Depression
Morris Dickstein
October 23, 2009
00:50:49
English and theatre professor and Morris Dickstein discusses Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression.
Boston Theater Now: New Artistic Directors
Diane Paulus
October 21, 2009
01:09:07
Greater Boston's Jared Bowen moderates a roundtable discussion of Boston's evolving theatre scene with the Hub's newest artistic directors: Kate Warner of the New Repertory Theatre, Peter DuBois of the Huntington Theatre Company, and Diane Paulus of the American Repertory Theater.
The Nature of a Jazz Masterpiece
Dwight D. Andrews
February 21, 2009
01:15:42
Dwight Andrews, noted musician and scholar, discusses what makes a jazz masterpiece. In every discipline of western art, certain works have been deemed emblematic of an era, a style, or an artist. How is a canon established within the art world? What is a jazz masterpiece? Is there a jazz canon?
American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery
Paul Staiti
February 24, 2007
02:12:05
Paul Staiti speaks about Samuel F.B. Morse in the context of other early nineteenth-century American artists who sought training in Paris, and Jean-Philippe Antoine presents on issues of imitation and reproduction vis-a-vis Morse's inventive painting.
Banjo-Wielding Women in Art
Leo G. Mazow
September 19, 2006
00:56:52
Anglo-female banjoists appear in myriad American paintings, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.