Tag: Susan Dackerman

  • Nation & World

    Putting an artist in her place

    A new exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums reviews the work of pop artist and activist Corita Kent.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The art of the possible

    Artist Kerry James Marshall’s massive woodcut print, on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, challenges the artistic status quo.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Jasper Johns, and a technique he loved

    A new exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum profiling the print-inspired works of contemporary artist Jasper Johns was put together with the help of four Harvard undergraduates.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When art advanced science

    More than a masterful artist, Albrecht Dürer strongly influenced 16th-century science with cartographic and anatomical work that gets little attention from art historians.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When art wed science

    A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum explores how the rich exchanges between artists and scholars of the 16th century advanced the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Century of scientific breakthroughs

    A lecture marks the path to a Harvard exhibit of 16th century art and science, still in the making.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Art, printmaking, and science

    Students in a History of Science class worked to create an exhibit that illustrates the importance of print technologies and printmaking, not only to the dissemination of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe, but also to its creation.

    5 minutes