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Articles by Darrel Rees
An unruly history
The big surprise, on first flicking through this weighty, image-packed book, is that such an ambitious ‘history’ of illustration is not arranged in chronological order. The decision is explained in the introduction: given the breadth of work within the vast field of illustration, the authors opted to divide the book into sections on ‘Style’ and ‘Form’. Since the former often reflects the social, political and cultural concerns of a period, the first section is (largely) chronologically ordered.
Melinda Gates to Receive Radcliffe Medal
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) announced this afternoon that Melinda Gates will be the featured speaker on Radcliffe Day, May 29, at the end of Harvard’s Commencement week. Gates, the philanthropist who co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband, Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07 (the co-founder of Microsoft), will receive the institute’s highest honor, the Radcliffe Medal.
Harvard Overseers Nominations Election
How are members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers chosen—and what do they do, once they are elected to the governing board?
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
On the balmy waves above a coral reef we once called Harvard Yard, a twenty-seventh-century Thoreau seeks Waldenesque contemplation. On a doomed planet, a father and daughter race to decipher an extraterrestrial society’s dying words. In Tang dynasty China, an apprentice thief must decide how to use her arcane talent for stealing lives.
March-April 2020
Click on arrow at right to view full image Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a growing population in a healthy, sustainable way. Photograph by Jim Harrison Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. Pippa Norris Photograph by Stu Rosner Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
Divestment Slate Achieves Place on Overseer Ballot
The Harvard Forward (HF)-backed slate of petition candidates for Overseer has been certified for the ballot, following a tally by the Office of the Governing Boards (OGB). To qualify, the five petitioners each had to submit 2,936 valid nominating signatures; on February 1, the deadline, the organization announced that it had delivered more than 4,500 names per candidate to the OGB, combining online-submissions and those on paper forms.
Marty Baron Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013, will be the principal speaker at the afternoon exercises for Harvard’s 369th Commencement ceremonies, scheduled for May 28, in Tercentenary Theatre.
Rare books at risk
W hen a colleague chanced upon a stray medieval manuscript page in the Harvard Theatre Collection in 2018, then-Houghton Library curator William P. Stoneman knew whom to call: Peter Kidd, a medieval-art expert. Kidd’s detective work identified the page as a leaf from a fifteenth-century illuminated book crafted for the French diocese of Rennes, a volume that had been thought lost. Book-breaking is not limited to eBay.
Pippa Norris on the global rise of populist authoritarianism
I n March 2016, days after Donald Trump surged through Super Tuesday toward the Republican presidential nomination, Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris published an online op-ed in The Washington Post that carried a striking data point.
Jazz and blues bassist Matthew Berlin
Matthew Berlin ’89, a jazz and blues bassist who also knocks around in folk, ragtime, and classical and performs sometimes three or four nights a week, is quick to tell people that he’s not a real musician. “A hack,” he insists, half-kidding. His regular job is as a trust and estates lawyer in a Boston firm. But the truth is, he’s been a musician—a serious one—longer than he’s been anything else. “It’s just always been there,” he says.
A quest for perfect ice
Matt Gilmore sits straight up on the Zamboni’s elevated seat, his left hand guiding the steering wheel, his right controlling the water spurting out the machine’s back. He leans leftward, his eyes trained on the few inches of space between the vehicle and the boards. Hitting the wall with the five-ton machine would be one of the worst things he could do, but his 14 years of experience ease the concern.
Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book
Among the many ways U.S. politics has been transformed in the past decade, the rise of nationwide citizens’ activist groups devoted to resisting a president—the Tea Party on the right, and Indivisible on the left—has been especially remarkable. These groups reflect both the renewed grass-roots energy animating civic-minded Americans, and the severe polarization that now frames seemingly every dimension of national politics.
Search Results Archive - Yuko Shimizu
Advice For Young Illustrators about this FAQ Thank you for visiting this section. I often get contacted by aspiring illustrators who are seeking for career advise, wanting to know about my technique, or to work on their art school research assignments. I wish I had time to write back to everyone, but the reality is, I am sorry I don’t. So, instead I made this section to answer many of the most common questions I have been asked in past.
Harvard's Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty
Toward the end of World War II, while thousands of Europeans were dying of hunger, 36 men at the University of Minnesota volunteered for a study that would send them to the brink of starvation. Allied troops advancing into German-occupied territories with supplies and food were encountering droves of skeletal people they had no idea how to safely renourish, and researchers at the university had designed a study they hoped might reveal the best methods of doing so.
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