2018 Sep 25
Creating a King for Eternity
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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Florence D. Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology,
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2018 Sep 20
Ranjani Mazumdar, “Slums in the Cultural Imaginary”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
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Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The slum has been a visual force in a number of city films from across the world. The use of certain geographical locations and popular discourses about crime and poverty have given shape to a diverse range of images that are at once powerful, mythic and disturbing. This event, which will kick off a two-day conference on “Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon,” will explore the perceptions that have fuelled the imagination of the cinematic slum.
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2018 Sep 19
The Open University’s Course A305 and the Future of Architecture Education
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Taking The Open University's Course A305 as a starting point, this panel discussion will interrogate the role of online learning in the future of architecture education. Participants include Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays,...
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2018 Sep 17

Lecture: Alison Brooks

6:30pm to 8:00pm

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Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, is one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed... Read more about Lecture: Alison Brooks

2018 Sep 15
Autumn (…Nothing Personal) Family Welcome Event!
10:00am to 1:30pm
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Harvard Yard Memorial Church Lawn
Come to Harvard Yard for hands-on art-making activities, games, and other family fun to celebrate artist Teresita Fernández’s sculptural installation Autumn (…Nothing Personal). Explore the sculpture and create your own work of public art, then head across Quincy Street to the Harvard Art Museums, which are offering free admission to all visitors throughout the day. All are welcome at this free, family-friendly event.
Commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts specifically for Harvard Yard’s...
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2018 Sep 14

Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

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Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500 cities with an average population of 50.000-1.000.000 inhabitants and an... Read more about Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”

2018 Sep 13
Feminisms Now!
4:15pm
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
What do millennial feminists want? This panel invites rising artists, thinkers, and organizers to share their visions of gender equality for the 21^st century. Panelists will reflect on their art and activism in the service of intersecting and sometimes competing feminisms. They’ll also discuss the ways they do—and don’t—engage the legacy of their 19^th- and 20^th-century foremothers as they work to move society forward.
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2018 Sep 13
Exhibition: Lead, Line and Plummet
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Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery of Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lead, Line, and Plummet features more than 40 intriguing objects, including artifacts, tools, images, and videos. Contributed by the incoming class of 2018–2019 Radcliffe fellows, this constellation of items introduces viewers to many of the projects and perspectives that animate the Institute’s vibrant multidisciplinary community of scholars, scientists, and artists.
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2018 Sep 12
Exhibition Opening: Lead, Line, and Plummet
5:30pm
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lead, Line, and Plummet features more than 40 intriguing objects, including unique artifacts, tools, images, and videos. Contributed by the incoming class of 2018–2019 Radcliffe fellows, this constellation of items introduces viewers to an array of projects and perspectives that animate the Institute’s vibrant multidisciplinary community of scholars, scientists, and artists.
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2018 Sep 11
Anna Puigjaner, “Kitchen Stories”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anna Puigjaner is an architect, editor and researcher. Co-founder of the architectural office MAIO, which works on spatial systems that allow theoretical and practical positions converge. MAIO’s works have been published in international magazines such as Domus, Monocle, Plot, Frame and Detail among others; exhibited at Biennale di Venezia,...
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2018 Sep 07

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, “Deciduous Plan”

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Through a selection of detached houses in remote natural settings produced by the studio, the lecture will examine the temporal dimension of... Read more about Pezo von Ellrichshausen, “Deciduous Plan”

2018 Sep 05
Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
6:30pm to 8:00pm
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Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Please join us for a conversation among the curators, Eve Blau and Robert Pietrusko, and invited media theorists, Laura Kurgan,...
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2018 Aug 27
Autumn (...Nothing Personal)
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Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Autumn (... Nothing Personal) is a public sculpture by the artist Teresita Fernández on view August 27 through October 1, 2018. Commissioned by... Read more about Autumn (...Nothing Personal)
2018 Jul 25
Perspectives on New Media in Museums
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Kate Lewis, the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss the challenges of caring for time-based media art. Conservators must... Read more about Perspectives on New Media in Museums
2018 Jul 01

Summer Sundays

Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun Aug 26 2018 .

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Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Free, fun, family activities allow visitors to explore arts from the ancient Near East. Activities change daily: make Egyptian accessories, inscribe... Read more about Summer Sundays

2018 Jun 30

Nam June Paik: Screen Play

Repeats every day until Sun Aug 05 2018 .

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Nam June Paik: Screen Play reveals the striking breadth of Paik’s oeuvre from the 1960s through early 2000s and draws attention to... Read more about Nam June Paik: Screen Play

2018 Jun 21

Summer Solstice Celebration 2018

5:00pm to 9:00pm

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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

On the longest day of the year, explore the world and have fun at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture's Summer Solstice... Read more about Summer Solstice Celebration 2018

2018 Jun 19

Translating into Colors: Van Gogh’s Copies after Millet

6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Van Gogh Museum curator Nienke Bakker will explore Van Gogh’s copies after the French artist Jean-François Millet, one of which is now ... Read more about Translating into Colors: Van Gogh’s Copies after Millet

2018 Jun 11

Cambridge Open Archives

5:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives

2018 Jun 11

Cambridge Open Archives

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums Archives is participating in Cambridge Open Archives, an annual event that offers the rare chance to visit a... Read more about Cambridge Open Archives

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