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Tag: Harvard Art Museums
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Campus & Community
Soyoung Lee named chief curator at Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Soyoung Lee will become its new chief curator effective Sept. 24.
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Arts & Culture
The proof is in the print
“Analog Culture” features approximately 90 prints from the celebrated Manhattan photo lab of Gary Schneider and John Erdman.
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Arts & Culture
A detailed narrative of Rome
Harvard’s Joseph Connors took listeners on a virtual tour of two of Rome’s most iconic spaces, the Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, also known as St. Peter’s Square.
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Arts & Culture
Visions pursued through darkest shadows
“Inventur — Art in Germany, 1943‒55,” at the Harvard Art Museums through June 3, features work that has drawn scant attention in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Art and technology explored during region-wide collaboration
This winter, a dozen cultural organizations throughout Greater Boston — including three from Harvard — are partnering to present an ambitious, region-wide exploration of art and technology.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard acquires new work by Kara Walker
“Powerhouse of a work” by top contemporary artist Kara Walker is the largest piece in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums.
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Arts & Culture
How a curator sees $450M Leonardo
Insight from Cassandra Albinson of Harvard Art Museums on the $450.3 million sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”
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Arts & Culture
More Dutch treasures for Harvard
Harvard Art Museums has announced a major gift of Dutch Golden Age drawings from the Maida and George Abrams collection.
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Arts & Culture
Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.
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Campus & Community
A night at the museums
The fourth annual Student Late Night at the Harvard Art Museums welcomed guests with food, drink, and dance — and, of course, art.
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Arts & Culture
Frida the artist before Frida the icon
A course on Frida Kahlo helped students understand the context in which the Mexican painter developed her works and how she became a cult icon.
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Arts & Culture
Warhol’s Marilyn
A special show at Harvard Art Museums features a series of 10 prints from Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” portfolio.
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Campus & Community
Plenty to see here
Whether you’re interested in science, history, politics, art, technology, comedy, cooking, or sports, there’s something happening at Harvard this fall for you.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard Art Museums tour takes visitors to Dighton Rock
Harvard Art Museums trip to Dighton Rock explored its connection to the exhibition “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820.”
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Arts & Culture
Must-see guest for campus art lovers
A portrait by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard helps highlight the loans that Harvard makes with other art institutions.
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Campus & Community
An academic partnership where all learn
A collaboration among the Graduate School of Education, Harvard Art Museums, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School empowers young teachers and high school students to teach and learn from original works of art.
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Campus & Community
Third-graders get creative
An Ed Portal exhibit celebrates an educational initiative between the Ed Portal, Harvard Art Museums, and Gardner Pilot Academy to create an experiential learning program for third-graders.
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Arts & Culture
Skip the fake, snag the masterpiece
Harvard curator Edouard Kopp launched a workshop to illuminate the tricky terrain of the fine art market.
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Arts & Culture
Reviving the Philosophy Chamber
A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Arts & Culture
A ‘Catalogue’ of dance
William Forsythe dance work will be the first live performance at Harvard’s Widener Library.
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Campus & Community
Art of combining chemistry and architecture
Maille Radford, the first student to graduate with joint degrees in chemistry and history of art and architecture, has her sights set on a museum career.
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Campus & Community
David Rockefeller dies at 101
David Rockefeller, a business leader and prominent member of a storied family who was a generous benefactor to Harvard and once headed the Overseers, dies at 101.
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Arts & Culture
The magic and moonlight of Winslow Homer
American artist Winslow Homer’s evocative oil painting “Summer Night,” depicting a scene along the Maine coast, is on loan to the Harvard Art Museums from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The local museums’ director Martha Tedeschi, a Homer scholar, discussed the artist and his work.
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Arts & Culture
When potatoes become art
“Analogia I” by Victor Grippo is one of the Harvard Art Museums’ many works by artists who were redefining the global artistic landscape in the second half of the 20th century. The piece incorporates a series of potatoes connected to electrodes and a meter that registers the energy they produce.
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Campus & Community
Lessons in observation
A faculty exchange about the humanities and sciences formed the centerpiece of the February Your Harvard: Miami event.
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Arts & Culture
Drawing wisdom from drawings
A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums offers up a diverse sampling of the museums’ rich collection of drawings, while highlighting the creativity of Harvard’s classrooms.
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Arts & Culture
Prescribing art in medicine
A Wintersession course studied compassion and suffering through the lenses of dance, music, and science.
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Arts & Culture
Best choice for photography curator
Makeda Best has been named the new Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at Harvard Art Museums.
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Arts & Culture
Blackest black
A sample of Vantablack, as dark as dark can get according to its maker, is now part of the pigments collection at Harvard Art Museums.
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Arts & Culture
Theater from the inside
Oberon’s presentation of “The Garden” is an intimate, inside-out theater experience for tiny audiences.
