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• August 14 at 11 a.m. Extracurriculars Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs focuses on renderings of clas- Seasonal through screenings of In a Lonely Place, John- sical sculptures, temple ruins, and mytho- The Farmers’ Market at Harvard ny Guitar, and Rebel Without a Cause, among logical figures. www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/ag_market. others. Harvard Museum of Natural ive; ive;

html • August 6-9 History ch ar In Cambridge: Six Moral Tales will be shown, including the www.hmnh.harvard.edu m • Tuesdays, 12:30-6 p.m. (rain or shine) art house favorites My Night at Maud’s and 617-495-3045 Outside the Science Center, at the corner Claire’s Knee, to celebrate the life and art of • Continuing: The museum’s newest ex- of Oxford and Kirkland streets. Eric Rohmer, critic, director, and founding hibit, Headgear: The Natural History of In Allston: member of the French New Wave, who Horns and Antlers, shows how and why • Fridays, 3-7 p.m. died earlier this year. animals grow extenders and how different arvard College; Harvard fil Harvard College; arvard nology h Corner of North Harvard Street and West- • August 13-15 cultures have used and experienced them. h ern Avenue. Avant-garde filmmaker George Kuchar Peabody Museum of Archaeology Organized by Harvard University Dining will be present to discuss his work (with and Ethnology

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herbs, chocolates, and cheeses—and also of- Exhibitions sified Satellite Images and Archaeology. useu fers cooking demonstrations. Harvard Art Museum—Sackler Harvard archaeologists used these arresting m

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film 617-495-9400; 485 Broadway South America. Case studies in Syria, Iraq, c ility/ c a The Harvard Film Archive Gallery talks: Iran, and Peru, for instance, reveal complex F http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa • July 17 at 11 a.m. early cities, intricate irrigation canals, and tion/ Harvard

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Visit the website for complete listings. explores the com- even traces of nomadic journeys. and Cover L 617-495-4700 plex interactions among popular taste, his- • Continuing: Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Im- lobal • Opening July 9 torical events, and stylistic developments ages of the Contested West highlights col- G “The Complete Nicholas Ray” explores that gave rise to late nineteenth- and early ored drawings by Plains Indian warriors

the vision of this American filmmaker twentieth-century European art. and historic Lakota objects from the Pea- Colle Map Harvard Courtesy Left to right: From Maps with an Attitude: Cartographies of Propaganda and Persuasion, at Pusey Library; In a Lonely Place, at the Harvard Film Archive; and campsite images from Spying on the Past: Declassified Satellite Images and Archaeology, at the Peabody Museum.

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Distinguished Harvard faculty • Competitive tuition body’s collections, all displayed in a gallery Evening & online courses • Part-time degree programs designed with the assistance of contempo- rary artist Butch Thunder Hawk. www.extension.harvard.edu libraries www.hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions Houghton Library 617-496-4027 • Through July 31 Let Satire Be My Song: Byron’s English DIAMOND AND Bards and Scotch Reviewers. The exhibit FINE JEWELRY traces the poet’s vitriolic literary satire (partly in response to a hostile review of LIQUIDATION his third book, Hours of Idleness), as well as his later, futile efforts to suppress it. SERVICES • Opening August 15 Life in the Transitions: William James, 1842-1910 looks at the scholar’s multiple vocations and lifelong quest for intellec- tual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. Pusey Library Harvard Map Collection 617-495-2417 • Through August 14 Maps with an Attitude: Cartographies of • instant cash paid Propaganda and Persuasion reveals how • jewelry conversion mapmakers during the last century have worked on a range of ideological fronts • brokerage services to promote causes, rally compatriots, and • auction house consultants frame major military conflicts. Countway Library Center for the History of Medicine 617-524-2170; www.countway.harvard.edu/ 232 Boylston Street (Route 9) menuNavigation/chom/exhibit.html Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Continuing: The Scalpel and the Pen: 617.969.6262 • 1.800.328.4326 The Life and Work of Oliver Wendell www.davidandcompany.com Holmes, M.D.

24B July - August 2010 New England Regional Section theater American Repertory Theater www.americanrepertorytheater.org 617-547-8300 • Through August The Donkey Show is a high-energy disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring chiseled male fairies, an acrobat- ic Titania, and a cross-gendered mix-up of lovers. Even the audience gets into the act on the open dance floor.

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