2018 Sep 18
Materials Lab Workshop: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World
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Materials Lab, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
This two-part workshop series allows participants to experience firsthand the tradition of making ceramic drinking vessels similar to the ancient Greek vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.
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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 17
Saving Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys
6:00pm
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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
James W. Porter, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
Coral reefs support more than a quarter of all marine life, yet many are critically endangered. In the Florida Keys, the once common elk horn coral (Acropora palmata) has experienced steep declines since the 1970s. Preliminary blame was attributed to global warming and coral bleaching, but in fact, a human bacterial pathogen associated with a wide range of serious infections was the culprit. James Porter will discuss how Key West residents are saving these reefs...
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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
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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 07

Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings brings together nearly 60 elaborate vessels of animal... Read more about Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings

2018 Sep 06

Opening Celebration: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings

5:00pm to 9:00pm

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Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138

Join us for a lecture and festive reception in celebration of our new special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with... Read more about Opening Celebration: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings

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 Sep 01

Mutiny: Works by Géricault

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University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Mutiny: Works by Géricault explores compelling images by the Romantic period’s most influential artist, Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), whose... Read more about Mutiny: Works by Géricault

2018 Sep 01

Adam and Eve

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University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

For most of history, humans expressed ethical ideas through stories, and of all these the story of Adam and Eve has been perhaps the most powerful... Read more about Adam and Eve

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 Aug 16
Kin Dza Dza Film Screening
7:00pm
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CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device...
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2018 Aug 08
Gallery Talk: From Analog to Digital
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Jennifer Quick, the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Associate Research Curator in Photography, will give this gallery talk. The related exhibition, Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, is on view May 19–August 12, 2018.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become...
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2018 Aug 04
Gallery Talk: Nam June Paik: Screen Play
10:30am to 11:00am
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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Marina Isgro, the Nam June Paik Research Fellow in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, will give this gallery talk. The exhibition Nam June Paik: Screen Play is on view from June 30 to August 5, 2018.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
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2018 Jul 25
Perspectives on New Media in Museums
6:00pm to 7:30pm
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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

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