Tag: ” Helen Molesworth

  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Avant-garde past and present

    Alison Knowles, a pioneering independent artist, takes listeners back to the early days of Fluxus, a group still making art through improvisational performance.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Museum of Innocence’

    At a Harvard panel, curators of both the fictional and the real explore the museum’s place in culture and literature.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ACT UP encore

    A new exhibit at the Carpenter Center titled “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993” examines the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power through a series of powerful graphics created by various artist collectives that were part of the influential group.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How interpretation makes meaning

    In 1973, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, ruled that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion. But where did that right come from? The Constitution…

    3 minutes