Wang Bing’s first work made outside of China, this one-hour featurette boldly announces a new phase in the director’s career. Shot at the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, it stages a biographical encounter with eighty-six-year-old modern classical composer Wang Xilin, whose anti-Communist sentiments made him the target of intense persecution and abuse during the Cultural Revolution. Standing naked against the empty theater’s distressed architecture, the artist proceeds to sing, play piano, contort his scarred body into odd shapes, and eventually recount the torture he...
Wang Bing’s first work made outside of China, this one-hour featurette boldly announces a new phase in the director’s career. Shot at the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, it stages a biographical encounter with eighty-six-year-old modern classical composer Wang Xilin, whose anti-Communist sentiments made him the target of intense persecution and abuse during the Cultural Revolution. Standing naked against the empty theater’s distressed architecture, the artist proceeds to sing, play piano, contort his scarred body into odd shapes, and eventually recount the...
Fabiola López-Durán and Patricio del Real will discuss the work of Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. This program is in conjunction with the museum’s multichannel film installation Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi—A Marvellous Entanglement.
Artist Pope.L will present an artist talk that touches on his project Corbu Pops, which was originally commissioned for the Carpenter Center’s level 1 space in 2009. Various installation elements of this pivotal work have been restaged for ...
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Paola Albini research and interpretation of the historical records on the effects of the last millennium earthquakes in the Euro-Mediterranean area have been published in several peer-reviewed scientific journals, and she has been acting as editor of collective volumes ("Materials of the CEC project <Review of Historical Seismicity in Europe>", 1994; "The Use of Historical Data in Natural Hazards Assessment", 2001), and special journal issues on this topic (Terra Nova, 1993; Annals of Geophysics, 2004; Seismological Research Letters, Focus Section on “Historical Earthquake Data...
Shakespeare has had an important influence upon modern Chinese literature and culture since the 1830s, which constitutes a significant part of Shakespeare’s global impact. Based on the rich sources recently accessible in Chinese and English databases, this article reconsiders Shakespeare’s impact on modern China, especially in the indigenization of the sonnet and the rise of huaju (spoken drama). The abundant, newly discovered data reveal Shakespeare’s multi-faceted contributions to the shaping of modern Chinese literature and culture. This is a modest effort to revise literary,...
The Gibbes Museum of Art is thrilled to welcome Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis as our 2023 Distinguished Lecture Speaker. Our first art historian, Dr. Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Before joining faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at MOMA, the Tate Modern, and served as a critic at Yale University School of Art. Her work, promoting visual literacy, has been profiled in ...
Cooper Gallery, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture is an immersive multimedia exhibition celebrating 50 years of hiphop culture through the archives of hiphop icons and longtime collaborators Ice T and Afrika Islam. Their private collection has been assembled over decades and is one of the world's largest private repositories of hiphop ephemera and artifacts. Featuring more than 300 objects from that collection, Day One DNA is divided into thematic sessions, each offering a distinct perspective on the cultural, political, and economic influences that shaped Ice T...