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Tag: Harvard Art Museums
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Arts & Culture
What radiologists can learn from looking at art
Medical humanities program inspires exhibit that rewards critical viewing
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Arts & Culture
How opium, imperialism boosted Chinese art trade
Harvard Art Museums exhibition chronicles history, explores lessons for U.S. drug crisis
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Campus & Community
Martha Tedeschi to retire as director of Harvard Art Museums
Her seven-year tenure prioritized expanding access and making admission free to all visitors.
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Arts & Culture
How to judge a painting
Do: Ask questions and keep an open mind. Don’t: Say your child could’ve made that.
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Arts & Culture
American stories in watercolor
Exhibit goes beyond idyllic landscapes to cramped apartment, 19th-century wardrobe malfunction, cancer-defying self-portraits.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Art Museums now free to all
New admissions policy seeks to build on the success of free Sunday and Thursday events tied to dramatic visitor growth.
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Nation & World
Go for Tommy Orange lecture. Stay for surprise reading of new book.
Acclaimed Cheyenne and Arapaho writer offers first public sample of hotly awaited novel at Native American Program event.
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Arts & Culture
Gold, clay, and universal forms
The new installation is the first-ever presentation of art on the museums’ outdoor Broadway terrace.
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Arts & Culture
Free Thursday evenings? Like theater? Mixed media? Dance?
The ArtsThursdays initiative increases accessibility and availability of Harvard arts for University affiliates and the wider community.
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Arts & Culture
War-scarred land
Makeda Best on images she chose for award-winning “Devour the Land,” which depicts environmental toll of militarism in U.S.
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Arts & Culture
Face to face with ancient Egyptians
Realistic mummy portraits, on view at Harvard Art Museums, shed light on life, death in multicultural Roman era 2,000 years ago
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Arts & Culture
Make it new (by making it old)
Frame conservator Allison Jackson recreated a frame for the Harvard Art Museums by 19th-century artist Albert Moore.
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Arts & Culture
Art with a conscience
Pioneering prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives now hang on the walls of the Harvard Art Museums.
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Arts & Culture
Competing visions
Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing monuments to life
On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing ancient pottery to life
Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.
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Arts & Culture
Fresh insight in familiar frames
Horace D. Ballard, the Harvard Art Museums’ new curator of American art, wants us to engage in big questions of our time through works of another.
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Campus & Community
John Harvard gets a facelift
A team of specialists cleaned and restored the iconic John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard earlier this summer, temporarily returning his golden toe to its original brown hue.
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Arts & Culture
Motion picture
Harvard Ph.D. student Kéla Jackson’s virtual talk explored the ways muralist and printmaker Louis Delsarte embraced notions of music, color, and interiority in his work.
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Arts & Culture
A feast for the eyes, sort of
A panel of experts explored the various ways in which the history of food in art tells a story of creativity and craftsmanship during a recent virtual talk sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and presented in partnership with the Food Literacy Project at Harvard University Dining Services.
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Arts & Culture
Who is this museum for?
During a Harvard panel, experts discuss how displays and artifacts reflect choices about whose story is told, and how and why.
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Arts & Culture
A digital piece of art worth $69 million
Harvard art expert Mary Schneider Enriquez reflects on the sale of a digital collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. The digital work fetched an eye-popping $69 million in auction last week as a non-fungible token, a type of digital file that uses computer networks to prove a digital item’s authenticity, and…
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Arts & Culture
How to examine troubling images
A number of Harvard faculty and experts took part in a discussion last week about how curators and faculty confront the challenges of teaching with and displaying legacy collections of photographs containing difficult subject matter.
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Arts & Culture
Brighter days for arts forecast in Biden administration
Though it is too early to tell exactly how the nation’s cultural landscape will fare under a Biden and Harris administration, a number of indicators suggest creative communities could face brighter times ahead with White House support.
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Arts & Culture
Feeling close to art from miles away
The Harvard Art Museums may be closed due to the coronavirus, but virtual visitors can still connect to its vivid treasures thanks to some art-loving Harvard undergraduates who are leading gallery tours from across the globe.
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Arts & Culture
Though museums are closed, the work continues
Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.
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Arts & Culture
Taking a break for beauty
Virtual, 30-minute art breaks organized by the Harvard Art Museums are designed to help doctors briefly disengage from the pressures and stresses of their work in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
So what have you been up to?
The Gazette reached out to members of the Harvard community as they entered their second month of social isolation to find out what they are reading, watching, doing, and listening to in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
Bringing (virtual) normalcy to the community
A roundup of efforts by the Harvard community to use the web to maintain connection and a sense of kinship.
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Campus & Community
An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
