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Documentary photographer Chris Killip dies at 74
Chris Killip, 74, renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard, died on Oct. 13.
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From the Everglades to Tribeca
Harvard junior Lance Oppenheim will premiere his latest documentary, “The Happiest Guy in the World,” at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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A storyteller partial to sand
Experiences in Russia, Montana, and at Harvard converge in freshman Dasha Bough’s sand art.
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Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96
Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.
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Facing future with hands-on empathy for others
Surgeries transformed Elaine Dong’s face and her future, freeing her to mix visual arts with the art of medicine.
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A sound all his own
Harry Yeff, better known as beatboxer Reeps One, speaks to the Gazette about finding his voice, bringing it to the classroom, and leaving it on the stage.
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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.
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Deeper creativity
New Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey talks about his goals for the division.
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Beneath the ‘Surface’
Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”
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Hidden in plain sight
Utopian worlds, sign-language poetry, and DNA origami — the subjects are as fascinating and varied as the students who explore them. The Carpenter Center presents “From Here,” an exhibition of thesis projects by seven graduating seniors from VES. The exhibit continues through May 29.
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A map for that
Visual and Environmental Studies students visited the Harvard Map Collection to see the spoils of a scavenger hunt for the longest map, the smallest map, and other cartographic treasures.
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An art exhibit replete with diversity
“Attached” is this year’s display of senior theses in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Their work is on display through May 24.
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Creative opportunity
The tradition of visiting faculty at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies brings art and insight to the classroom.
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Art by degrees
Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.
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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.
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Out of the studio, into the classroom
Seven take on teaching roles at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
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From class to Cannes
“Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.
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Senior saves you the search for quiet spaces on campus
Caitlin Rotman ’10 reveals a few quiet spaces and tranquil places around campus.
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The Arsenale
“Provocative” — one of the most-used words to describe art — may be an understatement for “The Arsenale,” the thesis exhibition for students in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, held at the Carpenter Center.
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Rudolf Arnheim
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 10, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Rudolf Arnheim, Professor of Psychology of Art, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Arnheim was a pioneer in the psychology of art with path-breaking books on visual perception and artistic creativity
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Scholar enjoys wrestling ‘the Great Bear’
Some scholars are hard-pressed to identify what exactly drew them to their field. Others can point to a specific “aha!” moment when they found their academic calling. In Justin Weir’s case, it all began with a bit of bureaucracy.
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Student work lights up Mass Hall corridor
These days Mass Hall’s ground-floor main corridor looks more like a contemporary art gallery than simply a prestigious passageway — and that’s exactly how University President Drew Faust likes it.
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VES film features city on the move
Maxim Pozdorovkin and Joe Bender, graduate students in Harvard’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, respectively, have captured Kazakhstan’s dramatic emergence in a documentary film titled “Capital.”
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Innovative filmmaking marks VES program
An intimate relationship between the residents of Harbin city in northeastern China and their mother river, the Songhua. A revealing insight into the personal struggles and national identity of Sudanese potters on the banks of the White Nile. These are the subjects of two ethnographic films premiering Feb. 11 at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology…
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Student work graces Mass Hall
Bringing home (literally) Harvard’s newly invigorated commitment to the arts, President Drew Faust has opened up Massachusetts Hall to an exhibition of selected artwork by talented undergraduates.
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New Ph.D. film program launched
The study of moving images has always been viewed through a wide lens at Harvard. Since the beginning, film studies at the University has sought to incorporate a broad range of disciplines in order to appreciate and understand the visual experience. The rich fields of philosophy, psychology, and the fine arts were all mined early…
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The joys and perils of building a superb film archive
When Bette Davis called in sick during her time as a contract player with Warner Bros., the studio was known to send their own physician to her house to make sure she wasn’t malingering. Haden Guest mentions this intriguing fact as one of the many insights into the Hollywood studio system he gained while working…