Tag: Harvard Art Museums

  • Campus & Community

    They get the job done

    Sixty-four people who selflessly keep the University running are this year’s Harvard Heroes, for demonstrating unwavering excellence within their departments and Schools.

  • Campus & Community

    Mission accomplished

    After more than a decade as director, Thomas Lentz is departing, with sparkling, renewed Harvard Art Museums as his legacy.

  • Health

    Health as an economic engine

    Finance ministers from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia gathered at Harvard Art Museums on April 21 to discuss links between health care and economic performance.

  • Arts & Culture

    In the mind’s ear

    On a commission from the Harvard Art Museums, Mexican artist Carlos Amorales created “Triangle Constellation” to hang above the Calderwood Courtyard.

  • Arts & Culture

    Voices, united

    “Harvard Voices,” sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, united a cross-section of artistic influences and University arts resources.

  • Arts & Culture

    Up for debate

    During two days of programming at the Harvard Art Museums, scholars, students, and the public explored the significance and innovative conservation of Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals. The events highlighted the murals’ return to public discourse and their new role as potential models for the treatment of aged and damaged art.

  • Arts & Culture

    A fountain of music

    As part of a course on music composition, Harvard students created original works inspired by objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Those compositions were recently brought to life by cellist Neil Heyde of London’s Royal Academy of Music at a concert held in the Calderwood Courtyard.

  • Arts & Culture

    Scrolling through the galleries

    A series of virtual tours enables a deep dive into selected pieces at the Harvard Art Museums.

  • Campus & Community

    Lentz to step down

    After successfully rebuilding the Harvard Art Museums, and more than a decade at the helm, Director Thomas W. Lentz will step down on July 1.

  • Campus & Community

    Greening the Harvard Art Museums

    The revitalized Harvard Art Museums have earned LEED Gold status for their energy efficiency.

  • Campus & Community

    Taking the Harvard Corporation’s temperature

    Bill Lee reflects on his first six months as senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and on challenges and opportunities facing the University in the months and years to come.

  • Arts & Culture

    The old, made new

    The Harvard Semitic Museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit on its long history and founder David Gordon Lyon, is refurbished, reordered, and increasingly ready for the future.

  • Campus & Community

    Bustle, brass, and brio

    In a weekend celebration, the public swirled through the galleries of the revitalized Harvard Art Museums.

  • Arts & Culture

    The mission of art museums

    In 20 years as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Malcolm Rogers has often courted controversy with his enthusiastic embrace not only of new media, but new definitions of art itself. Rogers gave the Lowell Lecture at Emerson Hall on Thursday evening.

  • Arts & Culture

    Activating a new space

    A select group of Harvard students witnessed the installation of a kinetic sculpture in the Harvard Art Museums by contemporary German artist Rebecca Horn on Nov. 5.

  • Campus & Community

    Students first

    Keeping with its mission as a new type of teaching and learning museum, on Thursday evening the Harvard Art Museums welcomed its first visitors: University students.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art’s shining future

    The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums reopen on Nov. 16 with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that unites the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under one shining glass roof.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard’s new home for art

    After six years, the Harvard Art Museums will reopen to the public on Nov. 16. The renovation and restoration has united the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under a spectacular glass roof. Get an inside look at the Harvard Art Museums’ transformation in Monday’s daily Gazette, which will feature…

  • Arts & Culture

    Hanging a welcome sign for art

    Thomas W. Lentz, director of the Harvard Art Museums, led a panel discussion about the role of the university art museum as a laboratory for learning in an academic setting and in the broader cultural ecosystem.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust and Cohen mark new $12.5M fund for arts

    President Drew Faust and Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, are celebrating a $12.5 million fund to enhance the creative arts at Harvard, it was announced today. As part of the fund, Maryellie Kulukundis Johnson ’57 and Rupert H. Johnson Jr. contributed a $10 million gift on behalf of their family.

  • Arts & Culture

    More art sees the light

    A new gallery at the Harvard Art Museums will display art from various other University institutions.

  • Campus & Community

    Let there be light

    The glass-and-steel roof, the calling card of Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect Renzo Piano, caps the expanded and renovated Harvard Art Museums and is the building’s defining feature.

  • Arts & Culture

    A giant jewel box, lit by the sky

    The Harvard Art Museums will open its greatly expanded and renovated home this fall, aligning the Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger museums under a massive glass roof.

  • Campus & Community

    Going forward, a look back

    The Harvard Campaign, milestones in the arts, and scientific breakthroughs marked 2013-14 at Harvard.

  • Arts & Culture

    A light touch for Rothko murals

    Abstract artist Mark Rothko’s series of Harvard murals will be displayed in November using a digital technology that casts light on the paintings to restore their faded colors.

  • Arts & Culture

    Artful balance

    Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev spoke at Harvard about her work with exhibit “dOCUMENTA (13,” launching a new annual program on curatorial practice.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art for viewers’ sake

    At the Harvard Art Museums, a long-hidden mural is both an example of the true fresco technique and a dramatic reflection of the times. It will be on permanent display when the museums reopen this fall.

  • Arts & Culture

    Eyes on ‘America,’ with hope of drawing more

    Christopher E.G. Benfey lectured on “America,” a wall designed by Josef Albers, as part of GSD’s “Then and Now” series.

  • Arts & Culture

    Museum as study subject

    Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum opened in 1903 as the Germanic Museum, but since then, in a restless shifting of fates that characterizes many museums, has experienced displacements in space, role, and identity.

  • Campus & Community

    A 21st-century campus

    Supporting the development of a robust campus, one that enhances Harvard’s mission of innovative teaching and learning, while simultaneously fostering connections across the University and the broader community will be an important goal of The Harvard Campaign.