Tag: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

  • Arts & Culture

    Art of the ‘Divine’

    “The Divine Comedy,” a daring and grand exhibit in three parts, gives a modern spin to Dante’s three realms of the dead, and shows how art can break disciplinary boundaries.

  • Arts & Culture

    Just the fax

    A traveling exhibition at the Carpenter Center shows off the humble fax as a medium for art, displacing the art of the hand with the foibles of electronic transmission. The exhibition continues to April 10.

  • Campus & Community

    The art of architecture

    Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history, and a practiced intimacy that draws people together.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art by degrees

    Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.

  • Arts & Culture

    Visions of war

    An exhibit at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts explores the new ways that artists see war.

  • Campus & Community

    The Fogg begins to rise

    With most of Harvard Art Museums’ staffers and collections settled elsewhere, workers create a “state-of-the-art museum facility,” with plans to open in 2013.

  • Arts & Culture

    Performance as art

    Performance artist Andrea Fraser discussed some of the inspiration behind her work and her current installation on view at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, during a discussion at Harvard’s Barker Center.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art as cultural backdrop

    A series of lectures uses art objects to open windows into understanding eras’ cultures, histories, and social values.

  • Arts & Culture

    Down-to-earth diva

    Opera luminary Renée Fleming offered her guidance and singing expertise to a group of Harvard students at Harvard’s Paine Hall as part of the Office for the Arts’ annual Learning From Performers series.

  • Arts & Culture

    The future is now

    Harvard senior reflects on his filmmaking, including a Siberian documentary and a futuristic fantasy.

  • Arts & Culture

    ACT UP encore

    A new exhibit at the Carpenter Center titled “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993” examines the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power through a series of powerful graphics created by various artist collectives that were part of the influential group.