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Tag: Harvard Art Museum
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How to liberate African art
In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.
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Curating a classic ‘Genji’ exhibit at the Met
Harvard’s Melissa McCormick takes “The Tale of the Genji,” one of the world’s first novels, from classroom to gallery.
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A vivid life
The life and art of Mark Rothko are examined in the new play “Red,” to be performed at Harvard Art Museums.
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Objects of instruction
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and some of Harvard’s leading faculty convened at Harvard Hall on Friday (April 1) to participate in “Teaching with Collections,” a discussion of the University’s treasures and their use in the classroom.
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Around the Schools: Harvard Art Museum
In 1962, American artist Mark Rothko painted five murals to display in a penthouse dining room in the then-new Holyoke Center on Mt. Auburn Street.
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Art, printmaking, and science
Students in a History of Science class worked to create an exhibit that illustrates the importance of print technologies and printmaking, not only to the dissemination of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe, but also to its creation.
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The nature of reality
Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.
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Enriquez named associate curator of modern and contemporary art
The Harvard Art Museum announces the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the museum’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5.
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A march toward the arts
The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.
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Performance as art
Performance artist Andrea Fraser discussed some of the inspiration behind her work and her current installation on view at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, during a discussion at Harvard’s Barker Center.
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Artists and hard times
A Harvard Art Museum lecture series explores topics from multiple points of view, in this case concerning economic turmoil.
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Art as cultural backdrop
A series of lectures uses art objects to open windows into understanding eras’ cultures, histories, and social values.
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Defining themselves
Two daguerreotypes recently acquired by the Harvard Art Museum’s Department of Photographs show a distinguished African-American man and a woman, countering stereotypes of the day.
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Impressions of women
More than ever, the Harvard Art Museum is making it easier for scholars and students to use its permanent collection (more than 250,000 works) to shed light on a variety of disciplines.
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José Ortiz new deputy director of Art Museum
The Harvard Art Museum announced the appointment of José Ortiz as deputy director, effective March 2, 2009. Ortiz is currently deputy director/chief of finance and administration at the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. A skilled and innovative administrator, Ortiz has a strong record of managing world-class cultural institutions, combined with…
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Patricia Cornwell endows conservationist at Straus Center
Harvard Art Museum announced the establishment of the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist position at the museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Funded by a $1 million commitment from best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, the Cornwell Conservation Scientist will play a key role in the analytical laboratory and beyond.
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Making connections: A special evening for Harvard faculty
“The arts are something we all care deeply about, whether we are artists ourselves, whether we are social scientists, or whether we are scientists,” Senior Vice Provost Judith Singer told an audience of about 120 Harvard faculty of all stripes and ranks gathered at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
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Harvard Art Museum receives major gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Harvard University today (Oct. 17) announced that the Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of 31 major works of modern and contemporary art and $45 million from Harvard alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former Harvard Art Museum curator, longtime supporter and friend of the museum and of Harvard, and wife of the late Joseph…
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Scholar, curator, connoisseur Welch dies at 80
Stuart Cary Welch Jr., curator emeritus of Islamic and later Indian art at the Harvard Art Museum and former special consultant in charge, Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, died Aug. 13 while traveling in Hokkaido, Japan. He was 80 and a resident of New Hampshire.
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Sackler hosts ‘Re-View’ exhibition
In June, with an ambitious renovation in mind, Harvard closed the doors of 32 Quincy St., a stately fixture on campus since 1927. But by 2013, the University’s three art museums — now collectively known as the Harvard Art Museum — will take up residence there in one major facility.
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Lori Gross named associate provost for arts and culture
Lori E. Gross, director of arts initiatives and adviser to the associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been named associate provost for arts and culture at Harvard University, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today.
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New name conveys museum’s mission
The Harvard University Art Museums — a leading center for research and teaching in the visual arts comprising three museums and four research centers — has changed its name to the Harvard Art Museum.
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Martorell conducts his own sort of life class at Fogg
Shortly after unpacking his bags and setting up his easel, Antonio Martorell is ruminating on the philosophy of art. “The materials, as such, are as important as subject matter. They become subject matter themselves — they are matter and they matter.”
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Appointments
HUAM appoints Williams first director of education, Lawry appointed senior research fellow at Hauser Center
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Peter and Anne Brooke give collection to HUAM
Peter A.B. ’52, M.B.A. ’54 and Anne Brooke of Boston have announced plans to bequeath their collection of 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings to the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM).
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Light Prop shines again
This Saturday (July 21), one of the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s most unusual artworks will get a new lease on life.
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art established
David Rockefeller has agreed to establish a new Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art within the Harvard University Art Museums, Thomas W. Lentz, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, announced recently.
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Libraries, museums meet with IT
The ability to search the actual text of millions of books — instead of just titles or summaries — will change the way students and academics conduct research, revealing a host of new sources invisible to current search methods, a Harvard University Library official working on the Google project said on March 28.
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Contemporary art curatorship established by Houghtons
Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), has announced the establishment of the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curatorship of Contemporary Art at the HUAM. This new position was funded by a gift from the Houghtons, and will be filled by its first incumbent, Helen…
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HUAM announces Craigen Bowen Fellowship
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced the establishment of the Craigen Bowen Fellowship. The new fellowship, made possible through the generous gift of two anonymous donors, is designated to provide the salary, benefits, and a travel/research stipend to a young, advanced-level conservation professional who focuses on works on paper and who is beginning…