Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium
Generative AI does not create new images out of thin air; it generates images that have a “certain something” in common with a selection of images we have fed into it. This selection, often called a “dataset,” can be generic or custom-made; either way, Generative AI automates the imitation and replication of some of its common visual features, often known in the past as styles. Imitation was for centuries the backbone of the classical tradition in European art, and it was de facto banned by 20th-century modernism for many good reasons. As the rise of Generative AI is bringing the...
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022 Denmark, Greenland / 2022 Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues. Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast,...
Knafel Center, 10 Garden St, Cambridge OR Online via Zoom
In conjunction with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. The works in this exhibition demonstrate the ways in which their creators—Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell, Liliana Porter, and Thompson—navigated art-making during times of social rupture and sought their way with novel, reparative gestures.
Free, Registration required for online or in-person
A fiction writer whose “day job” includes freelance writing for shelter magazines, Debra Spark will talk about how an article for Dwell led to her desire to tell the story of the Richard Neutra/Rudolph Schindler friendship, collaboration, and falling out. A Writer-at-Work type discussion, she’ll describe the writing and research of this particular piece, touching on earlier architectural historians, present-day filmmakers, and both men’s heirs.
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! Harvard Art Museums at Night takes place the last Thursday of every month.
Free admission, Advance registration is encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome.
Repeats every week every Saturday until Sat Apr 13 2024 .
10:30am to 12:30pm
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam with art at the Harvard Art Museums!
In partnership with the St. Mark Community Education Program, the Harvard Art Museums are pleased to offer a free 10-week course that will prepare students to answer the exam’s 100 civics questions and offer instruction to improve their English language skills.
Special interactive tours of the American art galleries, led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, will deepen the lessons taught by St. Mark’s experienced and trained teachers in one of our museum classrooms. The...
A presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Alison C. Rollins
At Radcliffe, Rollins is completing her second poetry collection, titled "Black Bell," and a nonfiction essay collection of biomythology, titled "Outdoors." She will also develop a series of performance art pieces in conversation with Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and historical examples of Black fugitivity such as Henry Box Brown and Lear Green, figures who, hidden in crates, shipped themselves from slaveholding states to free states. Thinking through frequencies...
Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. Gather with friends and mingle inside our Italian-inspired courtyard while taking in the smooth sounds from DJ C-Zone. Browse the museum shop and chat over a snack or drink for purchase from local vendors. And of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class art collections—over 50 galleries to explore! Don’t forget to check out the current exhibitions.
Repeats every week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Thu Mar 07 2024 .
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Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Running January 25 through March 7, Plaza WinterFest is a great way to enjoy the cold winter months in Cambridge! Join us at the Science Center Plaza for seasonal games including curling, ice bowling, and ice shuffleboard or year-round favorites including ping-pong, illuminated cornhole, or giant chess!
Hot drinks will be available in our WinterFest trailer on select days, free of purchase while supplies last! Keep an eye out for our Chill & Thrill Thursdays events for weekly fun for everyone!
A presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Marcus Wicker
At Radcliffe, Wicker is completing "Dear Mothership," a book of poetry that uses speculative narrative, empathy, and a hip hop aesthetic to explore reparations and examine the confounding ways humans treat one another when empowered by history and inheritance. He will also begin work on a book of lyric essays about barbershops, Black music, and belonging.
Looking closely at nature can inspire a broad range of imaginative artwork, from abstraction and decorative work to illustration and cartooning. In this workshop, we will use a variety of examples from nature as inspiration, and then explore techniques for unleashing our creativity through the drawing process.
Join curator Jen Thum for an exploration of works in the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine. Thum will share insights about the museums’ medical humanities program for radiologists—on which the exhibition is based—and what can be gleaned through close looking.
Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The Annual Christmas Carol Service, sung by the Harvard University Choir, is America’s oldest carol service. It is free and open to the public. Doors will open an hour before the event. Tickets are not being issued for the services this year.
The Sunday afternoon service (December 10) will also be broadcast live on WHRB 95.3 FM. The Tuesday evening service (December 12) will be...
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi will present a lecture on the intersections of migration, narrative, and violence based on her seminal craft essay on the works of Yiyun Li, James Baldwin, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The Annual Christmas Carol Service, sung by the Harvard University Choir, is America’s oldest carol service. It is free and open to the public. Doors will open an hour before the event. Tickets are not being issued for the services this year.
The Sunday afternoon service (December 10) will also be broadcast live on WHRB 95.3 FM. The Tuesday evening service (December 12) will be...
Join program assistant Shirley Hunt to explore the role of recorded music in Nam Jun Paik’s audiovisual work Electronic Opera #1. An accomplished musician and independent scholar, Hunt will share insights into the history, cultural context, and interpretation of musical material used in the creation of this artwork.
Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street) and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue)
Teen Saturdays is designed for Latino high school students. Workshops delve into four fascinating traditional celebrations from Central America. Participants will embark on a journey to discover diverse festivals that shape societies in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. During each workshop, teenagers will visit exhibits, use art and language to create original works, and challenge their sense of what a tradition can be through discussion. We will learn about the historical and social contexts behind these festivities, their cultural symbolism, and the values they embody...
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the fall 2023 Public Building & Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, led by architecture students. Walk through and learn more about the layered history of the building, its brutalist and modernist structural features, and the educational and cultural legacy of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.