Tag: Doris Salcedo
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Nation & World
Prescribing art in medicine
A Wintersession course studied compassion and suffering through the lenses of dance, music, and science.
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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.