Tag: Narayan Khandekar

  • Campus & Community

    Need a book for your beach bag?

    Harvard faculty and staff members share what they’re reading this summer.

    10 minutes
    Illustration of books on a beach
  • Arts & Culture

    Blackest black

    A sample of Vantablack, as dark as dark can get according to its maker, is now part of the pigments collection at Harvard Art Museums.

    2 minutes
    Vanta Black
  • Arts & Culture

    Rose petals for the lost

    Recently the Harvard Art Museums acquired the evocative “A Flor de Piel,” a room-sized tapestry by contemporary Colombian artist Doris Salcedo made of thousands of dyed rose petals stitched together to form a giant burial shroud. For the director of Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, this was a first.

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Breaking bonds of time

    “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” a special exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, makes room for different perspectives.

    4 minutes