Harvard Art Museums

New spaces for old friends

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

What’s in store for the revamped Harvard Art Museums, set to open in fall 2014? On Wednesday evening, curators offered visitors a glimpse of how the museums’ collections will be showcased in the new building, with a nod toward the thoughtful, the innovative, and the interactive.

Tags: Ancient Art, Architecture, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Ed Ruscha, Gallery Design, Harvard Art Museums, Jennifer Quick, Katie Koch, Lisa Anderson, Miriam Stewart, Pop Art, Pre-Raphaelite Art

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A teaching treasure trove

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

As plans for renovating the Harvard Art Museums progress, officials offer a look at what the refurbished facility will hold.

Tags: Art & Photography, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Arts & Culture, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Dan Smail, Debi Kao, Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Jasper Johns, Jennifer Roberts, Project Zero, Thomas W. Lentz

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A remembrance of things Proust

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Ahead at Harvard is a semester of celebrating Marcel Proust, whose landmark “Swann’s Way” was published in 1913.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Christie McDonald, Corydon Ireland, Department of Comparative Literature., François Proulx, Harvard Art Museums, History, Language & Culture, Houghton Library, Marcel Proust, Reynaldo Hahn, “Swann’s Way”

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Pearls of Persian art

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

A generous donation by the late Norma Jean Calderwood — philanthropist, autodidact, and keen-eyed collector — brought a millennium’s worth of Islamic art to Harvard, some of which is now on display for the first time at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Tags: Art, Art & Photography, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Arts & Culture, Ceramics, David Roxburgh, Harvard Art Museums, Iran, Islam, Katie Koch, Manuscripts, Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood, Persia, Stanford Calderwood

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The art of the possible

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Harvard Gazette

Artist Kerry James Marshall’s massive woodcut print, on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, challenges the artistic status quo.

Tags: African American, Art, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Colleen Walsh, Diversity, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Kerry James Marshall, Obama, Susan Dackerman

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The art of the possible

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Harvard Gazette

Artist Kerry James Marshall’s massive woodcut print, on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, challenges the artistic status quo.

Evidence of greatness

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Harvard Gazette

“A Storied Legacy: Correspondence and Early Writings of Joseph Story,” online and at Harvard Law School, goes deep into the life and work of the scholar, best-selling author, and Supreme Court justice.

Tags: Andy Silva, Art and Visual Materials Collection, Arts & Culture, Caspersen Room, Dane Professor of Law, Digital Collections, Ed Moloy, Gilbert Stuart, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Fine Arts Library, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections, History, Language & Culture, John Pittman, Joseph Story, Joseph Story Digital Suite, Langdell Hall, Lindsay Dumas, Portrait and Clock Collections, Sir Edward Coke, Steve Chapman

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Visions of doom

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Harvard Gazette

A pair of Harvard events looked at the artistic legacy of Pompeii — a kind of “Apocalypse Then.”

Tags: Adrian Staehli, Arts & Culture, British Film Institute, Corydon Ireland, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Film, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Film Archive, Karl Brullov, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Shipione l’africano, Theater, Film & Dance, “Images of a Doomed City”, “The Last Days of Pompeii”

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Jasper Johns, and a technique he loved

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Harvard Gazette

A new exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum profiling the print-inspired works of contemporary artist Jasper Johns was put together with the help of four Harvard undergraduates.

Tags: Art, Art & Photography, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Arts & Culture, Colleen Walsh, Contemporary artists, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Art Museums, History of Art, Jasper Johns, Jennifer Roberts, Susan Dackerman, “Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print”

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A time was had by all

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Harvard Gazette

A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

Tags: 2011 National Humanities Medals, 2012 Rhodes Scholars, 375th anniversary, Adam G. Riess, Alan T. Waterman Award, Alison Simmons, Allan M. Brandt, Alumni, Amartya Sen, Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Arthur Kleinman, Arts First, Basketball, Benedict Gross, Born This Way Foundation, Brett Rosenberg, Brian P. Schmidt, Brogan Berry, Buddhist ministry studies, Campus & Community, Cancer, Christine Clark, Christopher A. Sims, Commencement, Commencement 2012, communal recitation of poetry, Conversations@FAS, David Charbonneau, David Hempton, David Obert, Dilma Rousseff, Donald Ingber, Drew Faust, Early Action program, edX, Elaine Scarry, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Evelynn M. Hammonds, face transplant surgery, Facebook, Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching, Farish Jenkins, Farkas Hall, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development, Football, Graduate School of Design 75th Anniversary, Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard College Professorships, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Kennedy School 75th Anniversary, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Thinks Big, Harvard Thinks Big 2012, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Henry Kissinger, Hopi Hoekstra, Hubway, hurricane relief efforts, i-lab, India, James McAuley, John Harvard Book Celebration, Jonathan L. Walton, Jorie Graham, Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, Katherine A. O’Donnell, Lady Gaga, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Lionel Richie, Lizabeth Cohen, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall Scholarship, Mather Multimedia Lab, Matthews Mmopi, Maya Jasanoff, National Institutes of Health, NCAA Division 1 Men’s Championship Basketball Tournament, Nobel Prize, Obesity, Occupy movement, Old Quincy House Test Project, Poetry, President Barack Obama, President’s Innovation Challenge, Quad Grille in Pforzheimer House, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ralph M. Steinman, Richard Tarrant, Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, Robert Darnton, Robert J. Wood, ROTC, Samuel Galler, Saul Perlmutter ’81, Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series, Science Center plaza, Sept. 11, Spencer Lenfield, Stephen Greenblatt, Student Organization Center at Hilles, the Cabot Café, the Eliot House Grille, Thomas J. Sargent, Tim Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Victoria Lippert, Wintersession 2012, Women's Basketball, Wynton Marsalis

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