A one-on-one conversation between Professor of Architecture Carlos Jiménez NA, principal of Carlos Jiménez Studio, and Patricio Del Real, PhD, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. The evening will feature an overview of Jiménez’s 40-year practice and a focus on his project for Won Buddhism of Houston (2015-2021), which is on view in Sites of Impermanence. Jiménez understands architecture’s value as a life force: generous and sustaining, inspiring and optimistic, ancient and modern, wise and expectant, discreet and...
Isabella S'ewart Gardner Museum: Bertucci Education Studio
Isabella loyalists will have a front row seat to an afternoon with Natalie Dykstra, author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Nathaniel Silver, Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Gardner, will introduce the author —who will read passages from her book—and facilitate a Q&A and book signing. Copies of her book will be available for purchase at the event, or you can reserve your copy in advance and receive a free Gardner tote bag and book mark!*
Webinars co-organized by the Center of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and Art, Resources,and Teaching Trust, Bangalore, presenting the pioneering scholarship across variousfields ofknowledge from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.
Speaker: Rachel Hirsch, PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Part of what complicates the care and preservation of contemporary art is that objects may exist in ways that are variable rather than fixed. Further, these artworks may be subject to changing conditions of medium and fabrication or the challenge of obsolescence. They are also often subject to the influence of fabricators enlisted to produce objects in collaboration with an...
Pablo Picasso’s portraits from life are among his most revealing and powerful works. A key challenge for him was discovering the hidden life of each sitter, capturing this essence, and conveying it through a mask-like personification that reflected the person’s...
This lecture will present three projects that bring together art and architecture united by the Mediterranean Sea as a coherent site of imagination, collective future and interconnectedness:
Cycles of Collapsing Progress, an exhibition held at the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Unesco World Heritage Site in Tripoli, Lebanon.
Warché, a show at the Thalie Foundation in Brussels that links the history of Beirut with the sunken Roman city of Baiae (Italy) and the geometrical architecture of the Arab world through an original...