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...
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...
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...
In honor of the career of Charles McClendon, the Fine Arts Department is hosting a symposium on Thursday, March 21st from 3:00-5:00 PM in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall. If you would like to attend, we ask that you ...
Porté Room (S250), Second Level, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Ise Jingū in the Anthropocene: Shrine Reconstruction and Japan's Forests
Speaker: Jordan Sand, Professor of History, Georgetown University
Moderator: Yukio Lippit, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Please note that this event will take place IN-PERSON ONLY.
Department of History of Art and Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design lecture co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
Héctor Tobar is the Los Angeles-born author of six books, including the novels The Tattooed Soldier, The Barbarian Nurseries, and The Last Great Road Bum. His non-fiction Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of Thirty-Three Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Timesbestseller. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. The Barbarian Nurseries won the California Book Award Gold Medal for fiction. Tobar’s...
Join a community of interns to gain professional skills and learn about museum practice. The paid internships at the Saint Louis Art Museum offer opportunities to gain first-hand experience working in a major art museum. The Museum is home to a collection of over 37,000 works of art from six continents, dating from ancient times to the present. Over the course of the summer program, interns will have opportunities to learn more about the Museum’s collections through curatorial tours and...
Artists Deborah Roberts, Laolu Senbanjo, and Michael Ray Charles join Sarah Elizabeth Lewis to discuss Design and how it functions as a non verbal medium in art making.