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  • 2024 Mar 19

    Exhibition: Interference Patterns

    Repeats every weekday until Wed Mar 20 2024 .
    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    Bright colors, transparent shapes, and distorted angles evoke questions about perception, memory loss, and transformation in this larger-than-life glass exhibit by artist Matthew Bajor. Inspired by a loved one's experience with Alzheimer's, Bajor's abstract art and uplifting kinetic sculptures encourage viewers to use love, empathy, and compassion to bridge lost memories and language.

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  • 2024 Mar 19

    Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

    Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Sun Jun 23 2024 .
    11:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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  • 2024 Mar 19

    JFK Jr. Forum | Leveling the Playing Field: Sports and Racial Equality in the United States

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    In the United States, sports and patriotism go hand in hand. For decades, expressions of national pride have been common at sporting events — starting with national anthem renditions in 1918 and including military flyovers since 2001. Once considered a 'politically neutral' space, the sports industry is now a contested stage for American patriotism and dissent — as well as power struggles between white owners and managers, and the vast majority of players, who are of color. How are players and journalists using this stage to advance racial equity in the U.S. today?

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  • 2024 Mar 19

    Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Petra Blaisse, “Art Applied, Inside Outside”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    In Conversation with Grace La, Niels Olsen, and Fredi Fischli

    Designer Petra Blaisse discusses her forthcoming publication Art Applied, Inside Out (2024), a kaleidoscopic view of her work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over three decades. This comprehensive survey encompasses renowned projects, including the recently completed Taipei Performing Arts Center; the Kunsthal Rotterdam; Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan, a park spanning almost ten hectares; and LocHal Library in Tilburg, a vast factory repurposed using an architecture of...

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  • 2024 Mar 20

    Exhibition: Interference Patterns

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    Bright colors, transparent shapes, and distorted angles evoke questions about perception, memory loss, and transformation in this larger-than-life glass exhibit by artist Matthew Bajor. Inspired by a loved one's experience with Alzheimer's, Bajor's abstract art and uplifting kinetic sculptures encourage viewers to use love, empathy, and compassion to bridge lost memories and language.

    Learn more.

    Read more about Exhibition: Interference Patterns
  • 2024 Mar 20

    Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

    11:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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  • 2024 Mar 20

    The Art of Resistance: Sacred Visual Creations of New Orleans’ African American Mardi Gras Maskers

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Kim Vaz-Deville is a professor of education at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work in New Orleans studies focuses on the lives of African Americans from the early 20th century to the present, explicitly on their material and intangible culture. In this lecture, Vaz-Deville will draw on a decade of research to explore how African American masks produce awareness among Mardi Gras revelers of their community’s African and Afro-Caribbean heritage and shared global struggles.

    Free, virtual 

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  • 2024 Mar 20

    JFK Jr. Forum | A Conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    Please join us for a conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson, author and former White House Aide, who served as assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, during the Trump administration. During this conversation, she will reflect on her time in the White House, and discuss themes in her book 'Enough'.

    This conversation will be moderated by Setti Warren, Director of the Institute of Politics, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and former Mayor of Newton, MA from 2010-2018.

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  • 2024 Mar 21

    Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

    11:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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  • 2024 Mar 21

    JFK Jr. Forum | Objective Journalism in America: A Conversation with Marty Baron

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

    Join us for a discussion with Marty Baron, the former editor of The Boston Globe (2001-2012) and former executive editor of The Washington Post (2012-2021), as he discusses the importance of objective journalism in a democratic society, and the role of media in a presidential election.

    This conversation will be moderated by Nancy Gibbs, the Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center, and Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

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