Tag: Visual art

  • Arts & Culture

    Viewing art like an expert

    Curators and conservators at the Harvard Art Museums zoom in on the tiny details that tell big stories about some of their favorite works

    Detail of a Wall Painting Fragment from the Villa at Boscotrecase, 10 BCE-1 BCE, from the early Roman Imperial period.
  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    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.

  • Arts & Culture

    Vivid reminders of war

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

  • Arts & Culture

    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.”

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    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.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.