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Tag: Harvard Art Museums
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Harvard museums temporarily close
Harvard Art Museums and others will temporarily close to the public beginning March 13 in an effort to slow the transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
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A faithful keeper of time
Harvard’s on-call horologist Richard Ketchen keeps busy round the clock.
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A peek at a critical time for Japan through its art
A new Harvard Art Museums exhibit features more than 120 works from the Feinberg Collection and captures the evolving nature of Japanese painting over more than 200 years.
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Unraveling a fine arts mystery
Harvard Art Museums’ restoration and research on a portrait of King Philip has both shed light and raised questions about the copy versus an original.
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Keeping home close after you leave it
Exhibit explores themes of immigration, home, and belonging with art.
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Melting pot of American cuisine
A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.
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Mixing it up with Vincent van Gogh and friends
Student Late Night brought 1,300 University students to the Harvard Art Museums for an evening of art, music, food and more.
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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.
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Uncommon coinage
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi recently retired after almost two decades as the museums’ first curator of ancient coins. During her tenure she helped bring roughly 2,000 other coins to Harvard, small-scale works of art adorned with mythical creatures, ancient architecture, biblical references, important persons, and poignant dates.
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Connecting with a masterpiece
A small installation on view through November will feature one of the museums’ recent Rembrandt acquisitions, “Four Studies of Male Heads.”
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Need a book for your beach bag?
Harvard faculty and staff members share what they’re reading this summer.
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Summer in the city
Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.
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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.
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Reunited with a ‘transcendent’ figure
“I see him as an ambassador to the world,” Harvard alumnus Walter C. Sedgwick says about the “Prince Shōtoku” sculpture he donated to Harvard Art Museums. A recent visit to the museum stirred memories of visiting the sculpture every summer at his grandparents’ home.
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Places we love
Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.
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Reframing cultures
Throughout her time at Harvard, Mahnoor Ali has been devoted to exploring intercultural relations and expanding dialogue.
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How much would you pay for a masterpiece?
To get at exactly how the art market and the public drive up the cost of fine art, the Gazette spoke with some experts in the field.
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Studying Japan from ancient to modern
A revered, 700-year-old religious relic and the present-day crisis of declining births are just two of the many focuses of some Harvard researchers.
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At Art Museums, a new Kara Walker work
Two years ago, the Harvard Art Museums purchased “U.S.A. Idioms,” a massive collage and drawing by the contemporary artist Kara Walker, who first rocked the art world in 1994 with silhouettes that evoked the horrors of slavery and its lasting impact. The work is now on display along with a few of Walker’s other pieces.
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Harvard: America’s Bauhaus home
Walter Gropius, who would become a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, founded the Bauhaus movement in Germany and ensured that much of its output would have a final home at the University. An exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums features that material.
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Sampling the city around you
A guide to the arts in the Boston area for the chilly (and the warmer) months ahead.
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Taking it all personally
Now through Dec. 30 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, a series of photos shines a light on the America that author and social critic James Baldwin was responding to with his words. “Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America” tracks the social unrest that drove his writing and reflect…
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Probing the secrets of Sardis
Harvard researchers explain the importance and findings from the long-running archaeological dig at Sardis in western Turkey.
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The search for a California sphinx
At what other event would you hear, “This time there would be no Jell-O?” mused Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian last Wednesday at the Harvard Art Museums. It sounded like a…
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Intoxicating art
Nearly 60 examples of animal-shaped drinking objects make up “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings,” a new Harvard Art Museums exhibit that celebrates artistry and the exchange of ideas across cultures and centuries.
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‘Late Night’ with Degas and van Gogh
Harvard Art Museums opens its door for Student Late Night, giving students an intimate look at its premier art collection and jumpstarting the student-museum relationship that is uniquely available to Harvard affiliates.
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An artist of his times, and ahead of them
The Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit “Mutiny: Works by Géricault” engages with issues of social justice and race in the 19th century and today.
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Radical, playful, plugged in
“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.
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David Wojnarowicz’s ‘Transgressions’ resurrected
Harvard Art Museums introduces public to artist and activist David Wojnarowicz with film screenings on June 27.
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Early goals for new curator
When Soyoung Lee takes the reins as the Harvard Art Museums’ chief curator in September, she will be joining the institution at a vibrant time, with some goals already clear.
