Archive for 'Art'
Report from the field: Senior Scholar Karen Offen
Recent highlights from one of the Clayman Institute’s Senior Scholars, Karen Offen. Offen has returned from Amsterdam, where she’s been elected to the multi-national Bureau (Executive Board) of the International Committee on the Historical Sciences/Comité International des Sciences Historiques (ICHS/CISH), as part of a slate that will serve for five years.
Making space for female composers
Women were left out of the narratives of musicology for decades. Since the 1970s, though, feminist scholarship has included musical women. As we uncover “missing” women, we can question the patterns in musicology that have left these figures out if its narratives.
Art at the Institute: Home is when I belong
Heike Liss has always been fascinated with the idea of home. Her new exhibit at the Clayman Institute, “Home is When I Belong,” combines two photography series that explore different concepts of home. Each raises important questions about family in the twenty-first century.
Remembering the Great American novelist
With 2010 marking the centennial of Mark Twain’s death, editor Shelley Fisher Fishkin has put together a fascinating and diverse anthology of essays and remembrances by an international cast of writers paying tribute to one of the best known and loved American authors of all time in “The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works.”
The lower depths
Alain Mabanckou’s river of consciousness novel, “Broken Glass,’’ examines the colonial heritage and current social (dis)order experienced by people in his native Congo. Mabanckou, a high velocity, much vaunted author who has published five books of poetry and seven novels since 1995.
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