Tag: Visual art

  • Nation & World

    A look behind the scenes

    This fall, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts is supporting a series of six commissions from seven contemporary artists across various disciplines.

    8 minutes
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    The link between art and history

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School are collaborating on a program that brings history to life through the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Vivid reminders of war

    An exhibition by an Iranian artist recalls the heavy human cost of the long and brutal Iran-Iraq War.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Persian inspiration

    Farrin Abbas Zadeh, a visiting fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, has mounted an art show called “A Window to Heaven: Motifs of Nature in Life and Dream.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seeds of inspiration

    An artist and curatorial associate at Arnold Arboretum fuses material she has gathered during her 25-year Harvard career into evocative works of art. Hardy Brown’s first solo exhibit at the Arboretum, “Ex Herbario: Recent Works by Susan Hardy Brown,” is now on view at the Hunnewell Visitor Center through Sept. 16.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    An artful perspective

    Museum educators are using their collections to help members of the Harvard community explore salient issues like creativity and leadership in new ways.

    5 minutes
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    Ceramics Program donates mural

    The Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard recently donated a handmade mural to the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance.

    2 minutes
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    When three is also one

    The renovated and expanded facility of the Harvard Art Museums eventually will link the University’s collections under one roof.

    5 minutes