Tag: artist
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Arts & Culture
The great eight
Bestowed by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, eight laureates received the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Sanders Theatre for their contributions to African and African-American history and culture.
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Arts & Culture
‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope
A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
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Arts & Culture
A bittersweet confection
Visual artist Kara Walker talks about “A Subtlety,” her provocative public art project staged at a defunct Domino sugar factory in Brooklyn last summer.
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Arts & Culture
Street artist eL Seed paints at Harvard
Street artist eL Seed stopped by Harvard to create a “calligraffiti” painting.
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Campus & Community
Martha Schwartz named tenured professor at GSD
Alan Altshuler, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), recently announced that Martha Schwartz has been promoted to professor in practice of landscape architecture, with tenure (effective July 1). Since 1987, Schwartz has held positions of design critic and adjunct professor in the GSD, where she has taught options studios, portions of…