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Protester from BLM event.

Backing art for justice

Committee on the Arts funding helps support a dozen activist creators

Arts|

DateOctober 15, 2020October 20, 2020

From the steps of Widener Library, a woman photographs "Autumn (... Nothing Personal)," a public sculpture by artist Teresita Fernández recently installed in Harvard Yard at Tercentenary Theatre.

A luminous vision for Harvard Yard

Teresita Fernández’s James Baldwin-inspired installation reacts to its surroundings

Arts|

DateAugust 31, 2018July 19, 2019

Geri Allen.

Remembering a jazz great

Vijay Iyer and Esperanza Spalding headline festival in honor of pianist Geri Allen

Arts|

DateFebruary 15, 2018May 15, 2019

Dancers Jill Johnson and Christopher Roman will perform choreographer William Forsyth's “Catalogue (First Edition)” to kick off a two-day celebration of the choreographer and the discipline in the Widener Library Rotunda.

A ‘Catalogue’ of dance

William Forsythe work will be first live performance at Widener Library

Arts|

DateApril 18, 2017April 21, 2017

Choreographer Carmen Beuchat is pictured during the dress rehearsal for "Embodied Absence," which looks at Chilean art following the Pinochet coup. Art was often couched in coded language to evade censorship, and exhibited in public spaces using the human body as primary medium.

‘Disappearing’ Chilean art

Carpenter Center exhibit examines art created during the Pinochet regime, and adds fresh elements to it

Arts|

DateNovember 15, 2016April 2, 2019

The video installation "Ah humanity!" explores the often fraught relationship between humans and the natural world.

‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

Three artists from Harvard bring large-scale, audio-video installation about the fragility of modern life to Science Center Plaza

Arts|

DateApril 12, 2016July 9, 2019

Poet Fred Moten, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, delivered opening remarks at "Bending Toward Justice," a symposium held at the Harvard Art Museums.

The art of the moment

Panel explores the nature of improv, and what it means to have freedom to speak

Arts|

DateApril 11, 2016

Robin Kelsey, who joined the faculty in 2001, has been appointed the dean of arts and humanities. Kelsey has served as chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture for the past five years. He is also the Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography.

Robin Kelsey named dean of arts and humanities

History of art and architecture professor to take helm July 1

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DateMarch 9, 2016

"John Harvard Projection" will animate the John Harvard Statue with the voices, gestures and images of Harvard students.

John Harvard ‘speaks’

As part of public art project, students help to animate Harvard’s iconic campus statue

Campus|

DateApril 20, 2015June 5, 2018

Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 9

Campus|

DateNovember 14, 2011

As a liberal arts college, Harvard doesn’t train its students for jobs in Hollywood. But student clubs, a liaison network, and individual drive prompt some toward entertainment careers, a fact reflected in this year’s Oscar nominees.

Hooray for Harvardwood

Whether working in front of the cameras or behind them, University alumni thrive in the entertainment industry

Arts|

DateMarch 2, 2011September 11, 2019

Harvard Professor Svetlana Boym and her students gather once a week in a seminar room at 29 Garden St. to pore over readings by the great art theorists of the 20th century. Now her students are showing their art at the space in an exhibit titled "Poetic Urbanisms."

‘Poetic Urbanisms’

Exhibit ‘maps’ overlooked spaces

Arts|

DateFebruary 15, 2011July 26, 2019

The exhibit “Paper Worlds: Printing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe” was the product of a graduate student seminar. It involved conducting background research, searching Harvard’s various museum collections for appropriate material, designing and building the exhibit itself, and even creating a 100-page catalog and accompanying Web material. Working on the project were graduate student Stephanie Dick (from left), Professor Katharine Park, curator Susan Dackerman, and graduate student Adam Jasienski.

Art, printmaking, and science

Exhibit shows how prints from 16th, 17th centuries allowed scientists to visualize concepts

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DateMay 21, 2010June 14, 2019

(Cambridge, MA. Tuesday, March 3, 2009) A performance at Memorial Church at Harvard University looked at the place of the humanities in the struggle for human rights. It featured Toni Morrison, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, Homi K. Bhabha, and a dance choreographed by Damian Woetzel. YoYo Ma warms up back stage. Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard University News Office

A march toward the arts

Silk Road Project's relocation latest indicator of the rising import of creativity on campus

Arts|

DateApril 13, 2010July 24, 2019

Committee on arts announced

Harvard University Committee on the Arts to act in advising role

Arts|

DateDecember 21, 2009