Carpenter Center names Dan Byers as its new director
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) announces the appointment of Dan Byers as the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director, effective June 1. Byers will oversee exhibitions and...
View ArticleInstagram takeover highlights the arts at Harvard
Harvard celebrated student and faculty creativity at the annual Arts First Festival by featuring more than 200 music, theater, dance, film, visual arts, and multidisciplinary events this past weekend...
View ArticleHarvard’s Arts First celebrates 25 years
It isn’t an overstatement to say that Arts First has had a profound effect on the tens of thousands of students who have participated in the annual spring festival. “I am always struck at each year’s...
View ArticleCarpenter Center names Dan Byers as its new director
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) announces the appointment of Dan Byers as the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director, effective June 1. Byers will oversee exhibitions and...
View ArticleInstagram takeover highlights the arts at Harvard
Harvard celebrated student and faculty creativity at the annual Arts First Festival by featuring more than 200 music, theater, dance, film, visual arts, and multidisciplinary events this past weekend...
View ArticleHarvard’s Arts First celebrates 25 years
It isn’t an overstatement to say that Arts First has had a profound effect on the tens of thousands of students who have participated in the annual spring festival. “I am always struck at each year’s...
View ArticleNeighbors Gallery review under way
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is now accepting portfolio submissions from eligible Harvard-affiliated artists (including current or retired full- or part-time faculty and staff and their...
View Article‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope
A large-scale, audio-video installation about the fragility of human life can be hard to watch. And the artists behind the event designed it that way. Shot on a smartphone through a handheld...
View ArticleAn art exhibit replete with diversity
The guests in the Sert Gallery huddled over a wooden shipping crate, champagne flutes perched on the edge, piecing together a jigsaw puzzle of an Amazonian panorama. Across the room, visitors laughed...
View ArticleHarvard Neighbors Gallery seeks artists for 2011-12 season
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is seeking Harvard artists for the 2011-12 season. Located at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St., Harvard Neighbors Gallery provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists...
View ArticleReal Colegio Complutense seeks visual artists
The Real Colegio Complutense is calling all local visual artists to participate in its second annual art exhibit, also part of Harvard’s annual Arts First events from April 28 to May 1. The theme of...
View ArticleArt by degrees
Is there life after Harvard? One sort of answer comes today (Feb. 3) when three artists, all graduates of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) program, revisit their alma mater for a discussion...
View ArticleArt in the making
With a major renovation limiting exhibition space, the Harvard Art Museums can’t always show off new acquisitions these days. One example is a fragile plaster model — 34 inches high — that is a rare...
View ArticleNative American honored
The Harvard Foundation on Dec. 16 proudly unveiled the portrait of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, a member of the Wampanoag tribe, and the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College, in 1665. The...
View ArticleStudents go Dada over project
In one painting, the black outline of a half–hidden, skirted figure crosses the pink line of a stage as an audience member looks on. Nearby, ghostly, skeletal X-rays hang side by side. Around the...
View Article“The Image of the Black in Western Art”
Du Bois Institute’s exhibit and mammoth publishing effort
View ArticleExtension School instructor debuts online lit mag
Talking Writing, a monthly online literary magazine, has released its first issue. A group of professional writers and editors created the new publication to provide a forum for writers to share...
View ArticleOut of the studio, into the classroom
Penelope Umbrico is a Brooklyn artist — a selective and deep-delving archivist of digital imagery — who explores search engines, picture sharing, and other Internet portals for her resonant creations....
View Article‘Africans in Black & White’
“Africans in Black & White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints,” featuring prints by European masters Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, and Peter Paul...
View ArticleSlavery in the North, and more
When writer and reporter C.S. Manegold was in South Carolina researching slavery and The Citadel military college for her first book, she unwittingly found the unexpected subject for her second book....
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