Tag: Doris Salcedo

  • Nation & World

    Prescribing art in medicine

    A Wintersession course studied compassion and suffering through the lenses of dance, music, and science.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rose petals for the lost

    Recently the Harvard Art Museums acquired the evocative “A Flor de Piel,” a room-sized tapestry by contemporary Colombian artist Doris Salcedo made of thousands of dyed rose petals stitched together to form a giant burial shroud. For the director of Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, this was a first.

    6 minutes