Celebrate Allston photographer Yun Thwaits' new exhibit, A Journey in Images: The Photography of Yun Thwaits. Come meet the artist, network with neighbors, and enjoy the art. Join us for live music, drinks, and dumplings, featuring Chinese instrumentalists Dr. Qingen Ke and Dehua Zhen.
Sharing your art with different communities should be a fun and exciting experience, but it is often filled with stress and anxiety. What should you have on your table display? How do you get customers to stop and buy something? Where do you find sales? How much money do you need to get started? How do you turn your sales into repeat customers? How much inventory do you need to get started?
At this workshop, local art vendor Katiana Rodriguez of Boogie Down Baby shares the tried and true tricks she’s gained through exhibiting in the Boston art community, including tips and...
Online or at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge and Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Join Stephanie Mach (Diné), Peabody Museum Curator of North American Collections and Diné (Navajo) guests for a panel conversation about the ways they each care for Navajo cultural heritage within their various areas of work and interest.
Following the panel conversation, attendees are encouraged to visit the Hall of the North American Indian at the Peabody Museum where Harvard students will be available to share information about key cultural items on display.
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston
This talk features astonishing aerial images of Earth from Colonel Terry Virts' book and takes of life from the edge of the atmosphere.
Colonel (USAF retired) Terry Virts has spent over seven months in space during his two spaceflights, piloting the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2010 and commanding the International Space Station in 2014/2015. He served in the US Air Force as a fighter pilot, test pilot, NASA astronaut, and is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Harvard Business School General Management Program.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the fall 2023 Public Building & Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, led by architecture students. Walk through and learn more about the layered history of the building, its brutalist and modernist structural features, and the educational and cultural legacy of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the fall 2023 Public Building & Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, led by architecture students. Walk through and learn more about the layered history of the building, its brutalist and modernist structural features, and the educational and cultural legacy of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join the fall 2023 Public Building & Architecture Tours of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, led by architecture students. Walk through and learn more about the layered history of the building, its brutalist and modernist structural features, and the educational and cultural legacy of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.
Considered lost for years, these rediscovered, incendiary short films were made by legendary Serbian filmmaker Žilnik upon emigrating to West Germany in 1974.
Join an evening featuring one film feature and two film fragments by Italian silent film pioneer Elvira Notari. This screening will include live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
These programs of Elvira Notari’s extant works will highlight two feature films from 1922—È piccerella and ‘A santanotte—rooted in the Neapolitan melodramatic artistic form of sceneggiata that fuses popular songs and elements of the variety show.
This film screening features live musical accompaniment by Robert Humphreville.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors & non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
Critically reflecting on the ROK-US Alliance signed following the Korean Armistice Agreement, this program features select films of the Korean War and immediate postwar period. Though the alliance imposed a strict ideological corset on Korean filmmakers, the very promotion of "freedom" as an American value provoked Korean filmmakers and audiences to question the ongoing gender hierarchies, colonialism and ideological divides in the Korean peninsula.
Cost: $10 general / $8 seniors and non-Harvard students / free for Harvard students
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Attend a film screening of El hombre de al lado (2010) directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. This film takes place in Le Corbusier’s The Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina and had a major influence on Renée Green’s work Americas : Veritas (2018).
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)
What is the state of housing design in the US? In particular, how are architects of new single- and multi-family housing responding to issues such as the warming climate, the affordability crisis, increasing regulations and construction costs, and the demand for new unit types that better reflect today's demographic realities?
These questions will be the focus of a half-day event marking the release of The State of Housing Design 2023, a new book that examines themes in housing design, explored through over 100 recent buildings in the US. The event will feature panels...
Harvard Divinity School, James Room (Swartz Hall), 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Join us for a public screening of Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhely and Jimmy Chin's extraordinary film Wild Life—a story of love, wildness, and restoration in Patagonia, Chile. The film follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting.
A discussion on the film will follow the screening. Special guests include Kris Tompkins and Chai Valarhelyi in conversation with guest curator Geralyn Dreyfous and HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.
