Art & Photography
Catching flux
Stephen Dupont, an award-winning photographer who traveled repeatedly to Papua New Guinea as a Robert Gardner Fellow, is displaying his works showing the intersection of traditional Papuan life and the industrialized world in a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Papua New Guinea, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Photography, Robert Gardner Fellowship, Stephen Dupont
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Mapping blackness in creativity
Art historian Steven Nelson inaugurated the Richard Cohen Lecture Series at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute with a look at how black American artists draw from centuries of the African diaspora.
Tags: African Arts, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Corydon Ireland, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Conwill, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Richard Cohen, Robert Farris Thompson, Steven Nelson, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
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Getting to 50
Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, soon turning 50, was celebrated at the Graduate School of Design through a visit from its first director, Eduard Sekler, along with early faculty and students.
Tags: Albert Szabo, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Corydon Ireland, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Eduard F. Sekler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Graduate School of Design, Josep Lluis Sert, Le Corbusier, Mohsen Mostafavi, Nathan M. Pusey, Walter Gropius, William Curtis
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In search of sacred spaces
Installation artist Helen Marriage, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, conversed with Professor Rahul Mehrotra about a modern conundrum: In an increasingly secular age, can public space be spiritual? “Streets of Gold” continues the series on April 5.
Tags: Anita Contini, Art & Photography, Artichoke Trust, Arts & Culture, Ben Cameron, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Burning Man, Doris Duke Foundation, Graduate School of Design, Helen Marriage, Kumbh Mela, Loeb Fellow, Power of Cultural Disruption, Rahul Mehrotra
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New spaces for old friends
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
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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Pearls of Persian art
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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To understand, make a map
“Cartographic Grounds,” an exhibit of new and old mapmaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, intends to inspire a new generation of designers to draw, with precision, what they see, and to present, with art, what they imagine.
Tags: Alexander von Humboldt, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Cartographic Grounds, Cartography, Charles Waldheim, Corydon Ireland, Eduard Imhof, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Jill Desimini, Maps, Matthew Paris, Mohsen Mostafavi, William Smith, Zaha Hadid
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Creating a whole from fragments
A show by artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, which examines issues of family and the Afro-Latin experience in America, opened Thursday at the Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Tags: Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Dell M. Hamilton, Lucia Huntington, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Massachusetts College of Art, Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Rudenstine Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
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