Tag: Ceramics

  • Nation & World

    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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    An ancient statue, re-created

    Harvard’s Semitic Museum is employing a high-tech response to the destruction of 3,300-year-old figures, using 3-D scanning to repair a ceramic lion that was damaged by the Assyrians.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    All fired up

    The Harvard Ceramics Program turns 40 this year and says goodbye to its longtime director Nancy Selvage.

    7 minutes