2021 Feb 19
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: The Botany of a Buddhist Sculpture
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Angela Chang, Stephen Schneider, and Rachel Saunders will discuss ongoing collaborative research into the sculpture Prince Shōtoku at Age Two.
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2021 Feb 18
Kate Thomas, “Lesbian Arcadia: Desire and Design in the Fin-de-Siècle Garden”
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
At the end of the nineteenth century, British and American lesbian artists settled around Florence, Italy, renovating neglected Renaissance estates. Contemporary accounts describe the hillside region as colonized by a “cult of women.” These women restored, refashioned and theorized gardens as places of queerly mythic erotic encounter.
In this lecture Professor Thomas will explore how design features such as nymphaeums, water parterres, secret gardens, grottos and boscos provided both refuge and open-air expression for lesbian subjectivity. Remembering that the first documented...
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2021 Feb 11
And So On: Reading and Conversation with Kiese Laymon
4:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Writer Kiese Laymon will explore whether the actual histories of American colleges and universities should be ripe sites for Black American horror and comedic narratives. Laymon will create a live novella and a live essay during this talk, while questioning the ethics of making art “for” an audience longing for both titillation and innocence from the horrific histories of Black Americans in and around American institutions of higher learning.
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2021 Feb 11
Painting "Playground of the Autocrats"
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
Artist Anne Bobroff-Hajal, a PhD in Russian history, seeks to understand what underlies Russian autocracy across centuries, and to paint hundreds of individual people struggling to achieve their life goals within it: a comical yet deadly-serious human tapestry of raw ambition, pain, and joy. In conversation with Dr. Alexandra Vacroux, Bobroff-Hajal will discuss her large scale polyptychs, where viewers are led across...
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2021 Feb 09
Fellows' Presentation: "AHotB," Tonya M. Foster
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard—Online
Tonya M. Foster’s writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement, on intersections between the visual and the written, and on mapping the 20th- and 21st-century African Americas. During her Radcliffe year, Foster is completing a book-length manuscript of poetry, “AHotB,” that takes up Fanny Lou Hamer’s idea that “a black women’s body is never hers alone.”
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2021 Feb 05
The FAS Division of Science Lecture in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences—Online
The FAS Division of Science will host their 2nd annual lecture in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. via Zoom. Special guest speaker Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, III, President of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will share remarks.
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2021 Feb 02
Art Talk Live: The Abject Object—Decay and Irreverence in Dieter Roth’s Multiples
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Known for his iconoclastic use of nontraditional artistic materials, ranging from chocolate to playing cards to animal excrement, artist Dieter Roth (1930–1998) underscored processes of decomposition in his work. Curatorial fellow Lauren Hanson considers how Roth’s “decay objects” from the 1960s and ’70s harness self-deprecating humor to challenge notions of originality, artistic genius, and the museum as a site of preservation.
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2021 Feb 02
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard—Online
Book Panel on Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic by Álvaro Santana-Acuña
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives...
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2021 Jan 29
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Art & Technology 3,500 Years Ago
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In the mid-second millennium BCE, sculptors, painters, potters, and glass- and metalworkers were busy in the northern Mesopotamian town of Nuzi (Iraq). Some of their products are in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, which supported excavations at the site between 1925 and 1931. In this online talk, conservation scientist Katherine Eremin and curator Susanne Ebbinghaus will discuss the discovery of these objects and how technical study over decades has revealed the secrets of their making, as well as plans for future display.
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2021 Jan 21
Art Talk Live: Setting the Fans Afloat
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Art Museums
Exhibition designer Elie Glyn and production specialist Sean Lunsford will explain the creative process behind the planning and installation of a display of framed fans by Suzuki Kiitsu, featured in the special exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.
Led by:
Elie Glyn, Assistant Director for Exhibitions, Collections Management
Sean Lunsford, Exhibition Production Specialist, Collections Management...
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2021 Jan 14
Art Talk Live: Ben Shahn and Folk Music
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
During the Great Depression, artist Ben Shahn produced hundreds of photographs while working for the Farm Security Administration. Among his most common subjects were musicians. In this talk, curatorial fellow Kappy Mintie will examine Shahn’s interest in folk music in the context of concurrent government efforts to record this important strand of American music.
Led by:
Katherine “Kappy” Mintie, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
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2021 Jan 07
Art Talk Live: Love at the Margins
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Members of the itinerant Roma, or Romani, people arrived in Europe by the Middle Ages and have held a prominent place in Western art and literature, from the work of Shakespeare and Hieronymus Bosch to that of the many Roma artists and writers active today. This talk will focus on an unusual and moving depiction of a Roma woman and child by Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn, exploring it in relation to the broader visual and literary tradition and to the realities of the lives of the Roma in the 17th-century Netherlands.
Led by:
Joanna Sheers Seidenstein,...
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2020 Dec 17
Art Talk Live: Erased!
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Public images of rulers serve as potent symbols of power and propaganda. In ancient Rome, tyrannical emperors were deposed and assassinated, their likenesses defaced by angry citizens and sometimes by official decree.
This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering intersections of art and power, our curatorial team discusses how artists engage with social and political crises, use art to upset systems of power, and imagine more equitable futures.
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2020 Dec 10
Student Guide Alumni Tour: Why Museums Matter
8:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Alumni of the Ho Family Student Guide Program talk about works of art they still think about, how their museum experience affected their path after graduation, and how this experience feeds into their current work in architecture, social justice, and environmental policy.
Join David Kurlander ’15, Catarina Martinez ’15, and John Wang ’15—all members of the first Student Guide cohort in our renovated building—for an interactive conversation with Camran Mani, the Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Academic and Public Programs, about how they have carried forward their museum...
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2020 Dec 10
In Conversation: Kemi Adeyemi with Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts—Online
Join the Carpenter Center for a conversation between Kemi Adeyemi, Director of the Black Embodiments Studio, and curators Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James. This conversation is a continuation of Adeyemi's oral history project “Black Women Curators, A Brief Oral History of the Recent Past,” which documents the perspectives of Black women curators working in the United States from the mid-2000s onward.
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2020 Dec 09
Of Scholarship and Song
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online
Join Maggie Paxson and Alexandra Vacroux for a wide-reaching, long-looking, spirit-warming conversation and mini-concert as we prepare for this strangest of holiday...
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2020 Dec 05
Student Guide Tour: Transcendence—A Guide on How to Escape Your Current Reality, with Franklin Hang
11:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Online Event
Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!
Franklin Hang ’21 explores how artistic periods and traditions have had an impact on the world in ways that exceed bodily limitations. He will lead an interactive discussion of a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, Emperor Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David, ...
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2020 Dec 03
2020 Visions
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Online Event
Too often, the story of women’s suffrage unfolds in a vacuum, seemingly unconnected from the general contours of American history. This panel discussion looks back from the present, asking experts working in a variety of disciplines and organizations to briefly unfold, TED-talk style, a single “big idea” that captures the significance of the 19th Amendment for voting rights, citizenship, and democracy today.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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2020 Dec 03
Art Talk Live: Sculpture as Witness (Doris Salcedo)
2:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
During these unsettled times, art allows us to reflect on and confront sociopolitical uncertainties through close looking at objects. Doris Salcedo’s sculpture Untitled (2004–5), recalling a worn, simple chair, marks the absence of countless victims lost to political violence in Colombia’s civil war. Curator Mary Schneider Enriquez will examine Salcedo’s work and will consider how an everyday object speaks to the power wielded by those whose victims remain silent.
This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering...
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2020 Dec 03
Design Impact: Straight-Up Talk: Homelessness – Ethics, Policy, Action
11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Design Impact Vol. 2: Straight-Up Talk: Homelessness – Ethics / Policy / Action, sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council, will be a direct, real-talk dialogue on homelessness in the United States that explores the myriad causes of rising homelessness and innovative solutions to eradicate it. It will consist of 3 distinct panels followed by a summary dialogue. The panels will be prefaced by keynote remarks from Binyamin Appelbaum, lead writer on business and economics for the Editorial Board of The New York Times.
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