On April 4 , Professor Buchloh will give the Laudatio honoring the German sculptor Isa Genzken on the occasion of her receiving the Annual Nasher Sculpture Award at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.
Shortly after being expelled from the Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer wrote to El Lissitzky: “Today, more than ever, I am convinced that currently there is nothing at all for us to do in Western Europe. The specters have divided themselves, and even Paul Klee says that he should go in a ‘western’ and I in an ‘eastern’ direction.” Like many other Bauhaus stories, Meyer’s expulsion has a mythic status. This lecture reconsiders Meyer’s tenure at the Bauhaus and his subsequent move to Moscow as a construction specialist on the First Five Year Plan. The Soviet years are interesting not only for...
Graduate Student Lecture Series - Professor Benjamin Anderson, Cornell University - 5pm, Thursday, April 11 in Deknatel Hall at the Harvard Art Museums
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John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, Department of Asian Art, The Met Melissa McCormick, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
Join the exhibition curators as they explore the significance of The Tale of Genji in Japanese visual culture and world literature through paintings, illustrations, and calligraphy. A musical performance follows the discussion.
Dr. Paris Spies-Gans (Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows at Harvard University) will be presenting her talk, “Only a woman by her clothing”: Becoming a Woman Artist in Revolutionary-era Britain and France,...
