Tag: sculpture

  • Campus & Community

    A room of one’s own

    Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.

    15 minutes
    Bunting fellows.
  • Arts & Culture

    What a freshman sees

    For College student Jasper Johnston ’20, discovering Harvard is a shared experience through Instagram.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Reshaping sculpture

    Sculptor Nora Schultz, a new VES assistant professor, spoke to the Gazette about her influences, her fascination with robotics, and how her own projects inform her teaching.

    5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Sculptor finds physics a welcoming space

    Sculptor Kim Bernard, known for her spinning, swaying, bouncing, moving creations, is artist-in-residence in the Physics Department.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The epic of Hadzi

    The stone sculpture “Gilgamesh” by the late Professor Dimitri Hadzi, who died in 2006, was donated to Harvard’s Mineralogical and Geological Museum by his wife, Cynthia.

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The naked truth

    Archaeologist studies classical Greek art, including nudity, and what it reveals about the cultures interpreting it.

    5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The master’s chair

    Liz Glynn is this year’s Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, a visiting artist position in place at VES since 1986. The idea: welcome a working artist for a week of intense interchange with students.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Art in the making

    Barberini Faun, a rare plaster model at Harvard Art Museums, offers lessons in how ancient classical sculpture was restored in the 17th century.

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Ripple effect

    A new permanent art installation in Weld Boathouse is turning heads. Artist Ellen Kennelly ’85 took a crash course in flameworking and began these masterpieces in glass.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Up Close, part 1

    In stone, bronze, iron and oils the artistic and architectural details on campus boast a dizzying array of fine craftsmanship – both ornamental and functional – ranging over the centuries.

    1 minute
  • Arts & Culture

    In brief

    ‘HUCTW Creates’ showcases range of talents “HUCTW Creates: The Visual Arts,” a group art exhibit featuring visual artist members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will be up through July 31 at Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way. The closing reception will be held July 31 from 5 to 7 p.m.

    1 minute