Into the Collection offers visitors an opportunity to view and learn more about objects from the McMullen Museum’s permanent collection rarely on display. Assistant Director Diana Larsen, aided by the Museum’s Student Ambassadors, will offer a virtual presentation of Irish country furniture and ceramics. Visitors are invited to learn from the presenters, ask questions, and share their knowledge and observations.
In 1903, at the height of the worldwide craze for postcards, the Eastman Kodak Company unveiled a new product: the postcard camera. The device exposed a postcard-sized negative that could print directly onto a blank card, capturing scenes in extraordinary detail. Portable and easy to use, the camera heralded a new way of making postcards. Suddenly almost anyone could make photo postcards, as a hobby or as a business. Other companies quickly followed in Kodak’s wake, and soon photographic postcards joined the billions upon billions of printed cards in circulation before World War II....
What is the role of design in the construction of racial identity, lived experience, and cultural memory? Black Landscapes Matter convenes conversation on the role of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners in the construction of structural racism in the built environment. This conversation convenes landscape architects Kofi Boone, Walter Hood, Sara Zewde, and is hosted by the Gardner's Ruettgers Curator of Landscape Charles Waldheim.
Charles Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate...
The upheaval of the past 2 years has acutely impacted artists’ careers and changed the ways in which they approach their work. In the next installment of our Radcliffe on the Road series, we will consider how artists have navigated the struggles and opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront. And we will explore how the arts can help us—both as individuals and as a society—to engage with difficult and complex issues.
With welcoming remarks from Tomiko Brown-Nagin, this event will feature two former Radcliffe fellows in conversation: ...
Asterisk*Journal of Art is an art history and art publication started by students at Yale University two years ago. It is one of the few intercollegiate art history and art publications at the undergraduate level. You can access our previous issues ...
Dr. Marci Kwon, "Art, Authenticity, and Artifice in San Francisco Chinatown"
March 9, 2022 | 6-7:30pm
Please join us for the last talk of the 2021-2022 New Directions in Art History Lecture Series, "Art, Authenticity, and Artifice in San Francisco Chinatown" with Dr. Marci Kwon from the Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, Wednesday, March 9 at 6 PM EST on Zoom.
The Architecture canon, the way it is researched, taught and practiced, has a singular point of view. Accepting that point of view as universally valid has been one of the biggest missed opportunities in architecture. What we are taught as universal masterworks are, in reality, only a representation of a small homogenous group. This talk will cover the way I have merged practice and research to fill the gaps left by the absence of authentic scholarship outside of the canon. I will also discuss the ways in which this approach continues to shift my conception...
Do we each have a say over our bodies and images once they are captured in a portrait, photo, or on a smartphone by another person? Join us for a community conversation that examines the role, cultural relevance, and societal impact of the 19th-century Black model. Hear unique perspectives from Boston's own artists, activists, and advocates, who cross examine issues of race, gender, class and the differences between muse, model, and object.
Join Harold Steward, Chanel Thervil, and Paul Goodnight in conversation with moderator Theo Tyson.
