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Lee Keun Bai (1914–2007), born in Pyongyang and educated in Nagasaki, Paris, Milan, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a biochemist lauded for his research on human metabolism. During South Korea’s forays into nuclear energy development early in the Cold...

Measurement is never neutral. From the ninth-century stupa at Borobudur to the AI latent space, this exhibition traces a single idea across a thousand years: to measure a world is to generate one. Bringing together pre-modern cosmological instruments and...

Revolutions per Minute Festival, an artist-run festival, is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, cinematic work in experiments, essay film, animation, documentary, video, and audiovisual performance. RPM Festival participates in the Mass Cultural...

Cécile Fromont – Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University In the first half of the eighteenth century, African men and women enslaved or free, living in plantations or cities around the Atlantic, created empowered packets that...

To frame a picture is to distinguish it, to mark it as demanding a form of visual attention that is different from every day seeing. This paper probes the ambivalent European reception of paintings on paper from Asia via their frames: those they traveled...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is currently engaged in a multi-year collaboration with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Focusing on capacity building and knowledge exchange, the collaboration will lead to a co-created touring exhibition about the...

Entangled with the River: The making of Safavid Isfahan from Watershed to Body Abstract: The usual story of seventeenth-century Isfahan is a story of land: a capital remade by Shah Abbas I (r.1588-1629) and his Safavid successors through squares, gardens...

Museums acquire works of art not only to expand and strengthen their collections, but also to reshape the narratives those collections make possible. The greatest excitement come with the acquisition of previously unknown or unpublished works, whose...

TBD Part of the Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.

TBD Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.