Tag: Ethan Lasser

  • Arts & Culture

    The artist as witness

    “Winslow Homer: Eyewitness,” currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums, traces how the artist’s experience as an observer tasked with accurately documenting the conflict helped shape his career and informed much of his later output.

    6–9 minutes
    Winslow Homer's Brush Harrow
  • Arts & Culture

    An unanticipated juxtaposition

    A new pairing on a second-floor wall overlooking the Harvard Art Museums’ courtyard has placed self-portraits of contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall alongside that of 17th-century Dutch painter Nicolas Régnier.

    3–5 minutes
    Works by Kerry James Marshall and Nicolas Régnier viewed through archways at Harvard Art Museums.
  • Arts & Culture

    Studying art by making it

    Harvard class encourages students to create artworks to better understand how they’re made.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt

    The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.

    4–5 minutes
    Harvard sophomore Ashley LaLonde portrays poet Phillis Wheatley in the film "No More, America," directed by Peter Galison and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Campus & Community

    Another year on the cutting edge

    The festival will begin Oct. 10 and feature symposia, lectures, and interactive events examining a wide range of topics.

    3–5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Reviving the Philosophy Chamber

    A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

    4–6 minutes