In this workshop, conservation technician Yi Bin Liang, from the museums’ Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, will teach you how to create your own journal with a link stitch binding, involving only needle and thread. This type of simple binding allows the book to lay flat when open, making it perfect for sketching or writing. It’s also a great way for beginners to learn fundamental bookbinding concepts and techniques.
The technique is derived from the Coptic multi-section binding technique used in Egypt as early as the second century CE. Using this method,...
Join us for a hands-on workshop on traditional Chinese brush painting with master brush painter Qingxiong Ma. Enjoy this opportunity to slow down, try your hand at re-creating elements of the natural world, and ponder your connection to the natural environment.
To inspire you before the workshop, visit the Asian art galleries on Level 2 to view the installations The Living Earth in Gallery 2740 and Human vs. Nature in Gallery 2600, both of which feature paintings focused on nature.
Critically reflecting on the ROK-US Alliance signed following the Korean Armistice Agreement, this program features select films of the Korean War and immediate postwar period. Though the alliance imposed a strict ideological corset on Korean filmmakers, the very promotion of "freedom" as an American value provoked Korean filmmakers and audiences to question the ongoing gender hierarchies, colonialism and ideological divides in the Korean peninsula.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors and non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
The Harvard Film Archive annual movie marathon returns with a series of fascinating films from around the globe that unfold in the lonely and fittingly nocturnal world of high-stakes gambling. From the seedy Reno of Robert Altman’s California Split to the decadent Monte Carlo of Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels, from underworld Tokyo (where gambling is illegal) in Shinoda Masahiro’s Pale Flower to the glittering Cannes of Henri Verneuil’s Any Number Can Win, together these films vividly conjure up the strange floating world of the gambling den and the dark...
Director Ozu Yasujiro's noir and gangster films reveal his own creative way of bending the rules, usually with an act of penance added to the final act. Based on an original story by Shimizu Hiroshi, Walk Cheerfully follows Takada Minoru’s gangster Kenji (a.k.a. Ken the Knife), whose feelings for office typist Yasue (Kawasaki Hiroko) inspire him to go straight. As Kenji tries to find another line of work and win over Yasue, his girlfriend Chieko (Date Satoko) retaliates with a scheme involving Yasue’s boss (Sakamoto Takeshi).
Ozu’s earliest surviving film exhibits the young filmmaker’s dexterous integration of Hollywood influences into contemporary popular genres. Live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville!
Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students
Director Ozu Yasujiro's film drew significant praise and went on to win Kinema Junpo’s prestigiousfirst prize. It is because of the film’s harsh lesson about humor as a necessary means of survival that its jokes are so profound. Featuring live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville!
Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students
Director Ozu Yasujiro's canonized film is also one of his most profoundly moving and mystical: a meditation on the distance between generations and the loss of intimacy amongst a family pulled apart by selfish habit. Showing on a new 35mm print!
Cost: $10 general public; $8 non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard students
In this workshop, offered in English on April 16 and in Chinese on April 23, join us first for a tour of the installation of painting manuals led by its curator, Yuhua Ding, the Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, and former Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Then we’ll move to the Materials Lab, where master brush painter Qingxiong Ma will guide you in making your own brush painting, inspired by 17th- and 18th-century manuals.
Kivu Ruhorahoza, the 2022-23 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking, takes us on an exploration of masculinity through one of its most institutionalized forms: fatherhood. In the film, he figures Rwandan societal debates around the interrogation of fatherhood in a post-genocidal context, one in which the hands that held the machetes and struck, the voices that aided and abetted, the gestures that betrayed and denounced were primarily those of men.
Co-director Nancy D. Kates and Associate University Librarian for Antiracism Jerome Offord will discuss the life of civil rights trailblazer who was excluded from history based on his decision to live as an openly gay man.
Cost: $10 for general admission; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; Free for Harvard ID holders
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Thu Oct 20 2022 .
10:00am to 1:00pm
10:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
In this two-part workshop, join us first in the exhibition galleries with curator Susanne Ebbinghaus and conservator Kate Smith for a close look at the portraits and learn what our curators, conservators, and scientists have discovered about them. Then take that experience to the Materials Lab, where you’ll make your own version of an ancient tempera painting using some of the same materials and techniques used by Roman-period artists. This workshop aims to honor and remember the woman in the ancient portrait we will copy, and to celebrate the relationship between artist and sitter that...
The Mittal Institute at Harvard University invites you to a concert celebrating 75 years of South Asian independence from British colonial rule. Qawwali is a uniquely South Asian musical tradition that is widely popular in the region and around the world – join us as we commemorate this historic event with one of the region’s most-celebrated Qawwali groups.
Cost: Full Price: $20 / Harvard ID: $10 / All Valid Student IDs: $10
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Latino/a/x teens in the Hear Me Out/Escúchame project exhibit a group artwork that challenges stereotypes. What is important to know about Salvadoran or Honduran culture? What is overlooked in Mexican, Colombian, or Guatemalan culture? Drop in to see their response, and create “light-up” postcards or an art piece about your identity with simple art materials. Sketch and try other hands-on activities. Take your place with us and share how you want to be represented.
Limited metered parking available on Oxford Street or...