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Car on fire.

Keeping home close after you leave it

Art Museums exhibition explores migration and belonging — while conjuring memories for some visitors

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DateDecember 3, 2019December 13, 2019

CAST OF SIX

Fall into art

A sampling of the season’s best in local music, theater, and visual arts

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DateSeptember 9, 2019September 9, 2019

Dan Byers wants to build community around contemporary art as the newly appointed director of the Carpenter Center.

A more collaborative Carpenter Center

New director Dan Byers expands on ambition to build community around contemporary art

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DateNovember 29, 2017January 26, 2018

“The Museum, the City, and the University" brought together museum directors from Boston and Cambridge to Radcliffe to discuss the challenges museums must address in order to excel, engage, and create community.

Museum leaders have more than just art on their minds

Radcliffe welcomes directors for conversation on community, diversity, architecture, and more

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DateSeptember 28, 2017October 10, 2017

Dan Byers has been named the new director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Byers envisions close collaboration with colleagues in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard Film Archive, and Harvard Art Museums.

Carpenter Center appoints new director

Dan Byers foresees a ‘diverse program with artists at its center’

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DateMay 2, 2017May 4, 2017

Makeshift shelters made of recycling and natural materials dot the piers on the Adriatic side of Lido Beach, Italy (photo 1). All the community asks is that other people “tenere pulito,” or keep clean, said James Voorhies, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center. Currently in Venice, he snapped this image of the video and installation titled "Factory of the Sun" by Hito Steyerl in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale (photo 2). Before Italy, Voorhies spent time in Berlin, where he visited Park Gleisdreieck (photo 3), a former industrial and rail yard site recently transformed into a park and public space.

Bringing far nearer

Arts leaders to share travel stories at Carpenter Center

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DateJuly 21, 2015March 8, 2019