Tag: Department of Visual and Environmental Studies

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    Films that go bump in the night

    As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the Gazette checks in with members of the Harvard community to hear which films they love to fear.

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    Scene from "Carnival of Souls."
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    ‘The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu’

    At the Center for Government and International Studies, a small exhibit captures the life and work of an artist influenced by Harvard, by a range of cultural forces, and by the postwar art movements swirling in Europe and New York City in the 1950s and ’60s.

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    "Irresolution: The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu,” an intimate exhibit at the CGIS is marked by a large banner showing the artist at 24 years old.
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    Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96

    Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.

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    From Harvard to ‘La La Land’

    The composer for “La La Land” met his Hollywood collaborator, Damien Chazelle, and charted his musical path while at Harvard.

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    Filmmaker Robert Gardner, 88

    Robert Gardner ’48, A.M. ’58, the noted anthropological filmmaker who founded the Peabody Museum’s Film Study Center, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 88.

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    Beneath the ‘Surface’

    Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”

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    Film as a force

    Three documentary filmmakers up for an Academy Award this Sunday all have ties to Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, a longstanding, multidisciplinary program with a strong commitment to nonfiction film.

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    Six artists, teaching and creating

    Following tradition, Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies is hosting visiting faculty, six artists this year. Talks have been scheduled through November. The opening reception is Sept. 12.

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    Matt Damon, on his craft

    Actors Matt Damon and John Lithgow met at Sanders Theatre on Thursday for a spirited conversation that kicked off Harvard’s annual Arts First celebration.

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    Getting to 50

    Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, soon turning 50, was celebrated at the Graduate School of Design through a visit from its first director, Eduard Sekler, along with early faculty and students.

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    An art exhibit replete with diversity

    “Attached” is this year’s display of senior theses in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Their work is on display through May 24.

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    If he builds it, the artists come

    Ed Lloyd inherited a famous gallery designed by the architect Le Corbusier. As the Carpenter Center’s exhibitions manager, he regularly transforms that space to bring current works of art to life.

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    Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective

    The Film Forum in New York City will host a one-week retrospective of documentarian and ethnographer Robert Gardner’s influential films from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17.

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    Reflecting other worlds

    Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, Ed.M. ’71, receives the 2011 Harvard Arts Medal as part of the annual Arts First Festival.

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    Gift of opportunity

    Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.

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    Harvard Humanities 2.0

    A $10 million gift to the Humanities Center at Harvard will help bring the traditional arts of interpretation to more students.

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    Mahindra gives $10M for Humanities Center

    Anand Mahindra ’77, M.B.A.’81, has given Harvard $10 million to support the Humanities Center in honor of his mother, Indira Mahindra. The newly renamed Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard is housed in the Barker Center.

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    The future is now

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

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    ‘Stranger Fruit,’ indeed

    Artist Sanford Biggers completes his work “Constellation: Stranger Fruit,” which recalls the horrors of slavery even as it celebrates the stars above.

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    Gardner receives honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Bard University

    Robert Gardner, an associate in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard, was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Bard University on Oct. 25.

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    Visiting faculty bring their art along

    The “Visiting Faculty 2009-10” exhibit highlights the work of eight visiting faculty at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

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    Lens on politics: Life in Serbia, Kosovo

    Impulse, activism, and perhaps a bit of naiveté. That’s what led Jeff Silva, a teaching assistant in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, to make his way to war-torn Belgrade just days after the NATO bombing campaign ended in June of 1999.

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