Tag: Makeda Best

  • Nation & World

    Committee named to lead Legacy of Slavery memorial project

    University names committee to lead Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Memorial Project.

    5 minutes
    A Harvard gate featuring the veritas shield.
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    Plea from 1980s New York: ‘Please Stay Home’

    Darrel Ellis exhibition at Carpenter Center looks back yet feels of the moment with its themes of family history, identity, loss.

    3 minutes
    "Please Stay Home" drawing by Darrel Ellis depicting couple in bedroom.
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    War-scarred land

    Makeda Best on images she chose for award-winning “Devour the Land,” which depicts environmental toll of militarism in U.S.

    9 minutes
    "Dried Pond along the Rio Grande."
  • Nation & World

    Who is this museum for?

    During a Harvard panel, experts discuss how displays and artifacts reflect choices about whose story is told, and how and why.

    5 minutes
    Four people speaking over zoom.
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    How to examine troubling images

    A number of Harvard faculty and experts took part in a discussion last week about how curators and faculty confront the challenges of teaching with and displaying legacy collections of photographs containing difficult subject matter.

    7 minutes
    Troubling Images Zoom panel.
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    Brighter days for arts forecast in Biden administration

    Though it is too early to tell exactly how the nation’s cultural landscape will fare under a Biden and Harris administration, a number of indicators suggest creative communities could face brighter times ahead with White House support.

    6 minutes
    Restoring a painting.
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    ‘Garden’ party

    “The Garden” is a new arts course that lets students explore tools and ideas across the disciplines of visual art, film, dance, and music.

    5 minutes
    Illustration.
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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.

    8 minutes
    Winslow Homer's Brush Harrow
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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…

    5 minutes
    Vietnam War protesters march in Chicago in 1968 holding sign reading "Unite or perish."
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    Best choice for photography curator

    Makeda Best has been named the new Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at Harvard Art Museums.

    6 minutes