Tag: artist

  • Arts & Culture

    An artist of the avant-garde and the everyday

    A whimsical artist’s work is being celebrated in the exhibit “Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.

    Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective.
  • 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.

    Du Bois Medalists
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Arts & Culture

    Street artist eL Seed paints at Harvard

    Street artist eL Seed stopped by Harvard to create a “calligraffiti” painting.

  • 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…