2019 Jun 26
Harvard Art Museums: Cambridge Open Archives
12:00pm to 2:00pm
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Harvard Art Museums, Art Study Center, 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 number of unique archives and collecting agencies in Cambridge. In the Art Study Center, select archival photographs, correspondence, and objects documenting the history of the museums’ teaching mission and its wider impact in the United States will be on display for close examination. Archives staff will be on hand to share the stories behind the materials.
Cost: Free with museums admission (note that admission is always free...
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2019 Jun 20
Exhibition Tour: Small Steps, Giant Leaps
4:30pm to 5:15pm
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Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Join curator John Overholt for a guided tour of the exhibition Small Steps, Giant Leaps to learn about the ways early modern science inspired and made possible the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
Following this tour will be a a screening of The Right Stuff (1983) at the Harvard Film Archive at 5:30pm
An Exhibition Tour will also be offered on...
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2019 Jun 08
Exhibition Tour: Small Steps, Giant Leaps
2:00pm to 2:45pm
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Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Join curator John Overholt for a guided tour of the exhibition to learn about the ways early modern science inspired and made possible the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
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2019 May 30
Creating Community: Harvard Law School and the Bauhaus
Thu May 30 (All day) to Wed Jul 31 (All day)
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Caspersen Room, Langdell Hall, 1545 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
2019 marks the centennial of the Bauhaus, and Harvard is celebrating! The Bauhaus, considered the twentieth century’s most influential school of art and design, has deep connections to Harvard, including the Harvard Law School (HLS).
Explore HLS’s connection to the Bauhaus and its role in shaping campus life in these excerpts from the full exhibit, on view daily 9am–5pm in Langdell Hall's ...
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2019 May 02
ARTS FIRST 2019
Thu May 2 (All day) to Sun May 5 (All day)
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Harvard University
Each ARTS FIRST festival is unique, but every year combines the exuberance of Harvard students, faculty and affiliates who are passionate about the many art forms presented in four rousing days of performances, exhibitions and community.
Enjoy free, family-friendly performances, dance styles from around the world, public art walks, hands-on artmaking, and much more! We look forward to celebrating the artists of Harvard community with you during ARTS FIRST on May 2–5, 2019.
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2019 Apr 30
Exhibition: Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Tue Apr 30 (All day) to Sat Aug 3 (All day)
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Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of that remarkable achievement as the last step in a long series that stretches back through the centuries to the beginnings of the modern scientific understanding of our place in the universe.
On display are landmarks in the history of science from Houghton Library’s collections—such as first editions of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton—together with rarely exhibited highlights from a private spaceflight collection, including artifacts used during the Apollo 11 mission and on the moon itself by astronauts Neil Armstrong and...
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2019 Apr 27
Exhibition: Caspian: The Elements
Sat Apr 27 (All day) to Mon Feb 17 (All day)
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Caspian: The Elements is a new exhibit featuring the evocative imagery of Chloe Dewe Mathews, the 2014 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The exhibit documents her extraordinary five-year journey through the contested borderlands of the Caspian Sea, and reveals the essential role played by elemental materials like oil, rock, and uranium in the practical, artistic, spiritual, and therapeutic aspects of daily life. Caspian: The Elements is a powerful photographic narrative that explores the deep links between the peoples of the...
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2019 Apr 25
Caspian: The Elements Preview and Lecture
6:00pm
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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
For five years British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews traveled through the countries surrounding the Caspian Sea: Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Russia, and Iran. In images that range from stark and elemental to lush and mysterious, she recorded the vastly diverse peoples, politics, and geography of Central Asia, centering always on the great inland sea.
In this conversation with Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Dewe Mathews will discuss her project and new book, Caspian: The Elements (2018, Aperture and...
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2019 Mar 27
Exhibition: Willie Cole: Beauties
Wed Mar 27 (All day) to Sat Jun 29 (All day)
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Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden St., Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge
Willie Cole’s Beauties are haunting full-scale prints made from crushed and hammered ironing boards, each named after a woman from the artist’s cultural and ancestral history. Cole has used irons and ironing as central motifs in his work for 30 years, evoking everything from African masks to slave ship diagrams to the routines of domestic servitude. In this special installation, the gallery will be lined wall to wall with the Beauties. Standing silently—like sentinels, tombstones, shrouds, or windows—the prints will open a space for confronting anew the whole range of often contradictory...
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2019 Mar 26
Exhibition Opening: Beauties
5:00pm
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Beauties is a newly commissioned exhibition by noted contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist Willie Cole. He is known for using irons and ironing as central motifs in his work for 30 years, evoking everything from African masks to slave ship diagrams to the routines of domestic servitude. In this special installation, the gallery will be lined with haunting, full-scale prints made from crushed and hammered ironing boards, allowing visitors to confront the contradictory energies running through them.
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2019 Mar 13
Exhibition Opening Reception: “Fighting Pencil” vs. the Bureaucrat
7:00pm to 8:30pm
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Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Join the Davis Center for a reception to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, "Fighting Pencil" vs. The Bureaucrat: Satirical Posters from the Soviet Union. 
By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor planning, endless paper-pushing, redundancy and shirking, bribery, embezzlement, phony reporting, and cover-ups at all levels of the centralized economy had become the norm. The results included shoddy construction, inefficient farming methods, empty store shelves, environmental pollution, and a decidedly uncivil...
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2019 Mar 06
Exhibition: "Fighting Pencil" vs. the Bureaucrat, Satirical Posters from the Soviet Union
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Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge
By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor planning, endless paper-pushing, redundancy and shirking, bribery, embezzlement, phony reporting, and cover-ups at all levels of the centralized economy had become the norm. The results included shoddy construction, inefficient farming methods, empty store shelves, environmental pollution, and a decidedly uncivil civil service.
To combat these ills, the government enlisted the help of cartoonists and poets from the Fighting Pencil, a Leningrad-based artists’ collective. Borrowing from the...
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2019 Feb 07
Opening Celebration: “The Bauhaus and Harvard”
5:00pm to 9:00pm
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA
Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest special exhibition, The Bauhaus and Harvard, on view February 8–July 28, 2019.
 
Following an introduction to the exhibition by curator Laura Muir, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum will present a lecture-performance titled “Fabric in space, fabric out of space.”
 
Raum’s installations and videos aim to both reconstruct and deconstruct the functional fabrics developed in the Bauhaus weaving workshop. Her...
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2019 Jan 30
Exhibition Opening: "Future Fossil"
6:00pm
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Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138
In a newly commissioned exhibition, artist Clarissa Tossin considers the ecology of an uncertain future. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction trilogy Xenogenesis (1989), in which the Amazon becomes the site for a new civilization of alien-human hybrids, Tossin speculates upon a postapocalyptic world following ecological collapse. Pairing DIY plastic recycling techniques with the materials and practices of Amazonian aesthetic traditions, Tossin highlights the contemporary footprint left in the geological sedimentation of the earth. These new works consider...
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2019 Jan 02
Jace Clayton, "The Great Salt"
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
In 1638, a work of silver known as The Great Salt arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Owned by John Glover, who died during his passage across the Atlantic, the object transferred to Glover’s widow Elizabeth, who later married Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard. The Great Salt (on display in the silver cabinet on Level 2, Gallery 2340) is one of seven pieces of historic...
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2019 Jan 02
Clay—Modeling African Design
Wed Jan 2 (All day) to Sun Nov 14 (All day)
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. A selection of more than 50 works on loan from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, including those by newly discovered Nigerian artist Alice Osayewe, are shown alongside...
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2018 Nov 15
The High Line: A Debate
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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HGSD, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
In conjunction with the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, a panel discussion with some of those most closely involved with realizing the High Line will allow a deeper understanding of its value as an urban design prototype being disseminated and adopted worldwide.
The panel will feature John Alschuler (Chairman, HR&A), ...
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2018 Nov 14
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize In Urban Design: The High Line
6:30pm to 8:00pm
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HGSD, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Please join us for two days of events in conjunction with the 2017 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, awarded to the High Line.
The events begin Wednesday, November 14 at 6:30 PM with remarks in the GSD's Piper Auditorium from Diane Davis (Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, GSD), Ric Scofidio (Diller Scofidio & Refro), James Corner and Lisa Tziona Switkin (...
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2018 Nov 08
Exhibition Opening: Measure
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Anna Von Mertens is an exhibited artist who uses the structures of quilting and drawing to explore the frontiers of human understanding. Her new exhibition "Measure" explores the life and work of Henrietta Leavitt, one of the women “computers” hired to study glass-plate astronomical photographs at the Harvard College Observatory a century ago. Leavitt’s findings provided a unit of measurement for galactic distances. Reimagined in meticulous stitches and intricate graphite marks, Von Mertens examines our current understanding of the size and shape of...
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2018 Nov 07
Free Admission Afternoons: “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World”
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
 
The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors from 1 to 5pm every Wednesday from September 12, 2018 through January 2, 2019, in recognition of the generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of our current special exhibition, Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings (on...
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