Tag: Exhibit
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What’s in a (scientific) name
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is taking on names — both common and scientific — together with companion institutions in a series of new installations that introduce the public to the color and complexity of appellations.
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Centuries of honor and prestige
A new library exhibit will explore the 350-year-old relationship between the U.S. military and Harvard University.
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At one with Thoreau
Scot Miller’s photographs from the Maine wilderness, inspired by Thoreau’s “Maine Woods,” are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Gripes between bites
A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.
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The designing woman
Radcliffe graphic designer Jessica Brilli does what she loves and loves what she does, using her artistic talent in her personal and professional life. A reception will be held Nov. 8 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
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Taking a Thursday tour
This summer, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research is offering tours of its art collection. Led at noon on Thursdays by Sheldon Cheek, senior curatorial associate for the Image of the Black in Western Art Project and Photo Archive, at the Rudenstine Gallery.
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‘The Creation of Mather’
In celebration of the creation of Mather House some 40 years ago, Co-Masters Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten have organized a retrospective exhibit of the House’s design and construction in the Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery.
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A lifelong love of African art
The Peabody Museum’s Monni Adams, 90, continues to research and publish in her field, now focusing on African masks.
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Real Colegio Complutense seeks visual artists
The Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) is calling all local visual artists to participate in its second annual art exhibit, also part of Harvard’s annual Arts First events from April 28 to May 1.
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HIO seeks international art
The Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9.
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Visions of war
An exhibit at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts explores the new ways that artists see war.
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Getting a bird’s-eye view of the past
The archaeological work of Harvard students, using satellite photos to locate ancient structures, is on display at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Boulders that bowl over
A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.
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Emily as art
A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.
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History on a small scale
On the second floor of Harvard’s Science Center is a temporary exhibit of 75 patent models from the 19th century, a time of prolific American invention that produced the revolver, zippers, trolley cars, and cash registers.
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Jane Cheng ’09: Preserving art, making it public, passing it on
Talk about a grand entrance — on her first day of work at the Herzog August Bibliothek, the famed medieval studies library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Jane Cheng ’09 powered up her laptop and promptly shorted out the entire reading room.
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Evolution explored from all angles
From humanity’s close relationship to chimpanzees to the missing link between land and sea creatures, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) has capped off a year celebrating Darwin and “On the Origin of Species” with a new exhibit that puts evolution front and center.
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Semitic Museum to host tour of ‘The Houses of Ancient Israel’
The Semitic Museum will host a lunchtime tour of “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine” on May 21 at 12:15 p.m., offering a view of life in an ancient Near Eastern agricultural society. The exhibit — which displays family dwellings, palaces, and temples — is arranged in terms of the different types of…
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Evolution of a sacred text made visible at Houghton
When Jane Cheng ’09 arrived at Harvard four years ago, her interest in book conservation led to a job at the Weissman Preservation Center, and it was that job that led her to the medieval text that would become the subject of both her senior thesis and a new exhibition organized by Cheng at Houghton…
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Symposium, exhibition on Conan Doyle at Houghton
A new exhibition, “‘Ever Westward’: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and American Culture,” opening May 5 at Houghton Library, hopes to paint a fuller picture of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s contributions to world literature, which range from historical fiction to personal memoir to science fiction and beyond.
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Drawing from history
History and art are intricately linked in “Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West,” a new exhibit at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology based on a collection of drawings by Native American warriors. “It’s so rich. It’s such a complex, interesting document that has so many stories embedded in it,” said the show’s…
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Looking for Barbies
In connection with the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere production of Christine Evans’ play “Trojan Barbie,” The Weekly Dig is sponsoring a Barbie Doll competition and exhibition at the Space 242 Gallery in the South End, Boston.
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Arnold Arboretum art exhibition calls for submissions
The Arnold Arboretum and Jamaica Plain Open Studios will host a juried group art exhibition in the fall devoted to art inspired by the plants, landscape, and collections of the Arnold Arboretum, in conjunction with Open Studios weekend (Sept. 26-27).
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Carpenter Center hosts its architect(s)
The Carpenter Center for the Arts is currently presenting a daring exhibition of the work of artist William Pope.L titled “Corbu Pops.” The Carpenter Center is the only building in North America designed by the modernist genius Le Corbusier (“Corbu” to his friends).
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Exploring ‘Patterns’ in architecture
Establishing links between otherwise disparate cultural, intellectual, and technological categories has long been the job of the architect, an arbiter of aesthetic connection. Who else can create a bond between the Parthenon and a sports car, bricks and B movies, octogenarians and the color orange?
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‘Egg & Nest’
World-renowned photographer Rosamond Purcell’s photographs of exquisitely elegant eggs and remarkable nests are on view at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit, “Egg & Nest,” on display through March 15.
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Student work lights up Mass Hall corridor
These days Mass Hall’s ground-floor main corridor looks more like a contemporary art gallery than simply a prestigious passageway — and that’s exactly how University President Drew Faust likes it.