Suzanne Preston Blier, PhD, set the art history world abuzz with her recent research on Pablo Picasso’s infamous work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In her book, Picasso’s Demoiselles, Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, notably one of the twentieth century’s most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso’s interpretation of the diversity of representations of women from around the world he encountered in...

Please join us for this event where we will come together in conversation to approach critical methodological questions...

Catalyst Conversations in partnership with the List Visual Art Center presents – Picturing Language: Artist Sarah Hulsey  and Linguist Athulya Aravind 

The persistence of language is a human experience. Both art and language act as a door to that experience. The structure of language is the structure of the brain, as linguist Noam Chomsky says, “language is not just a bunch of words statistically strung together. Structures governing words come from the mind.”

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Webinar

Aga Khan  Lecture Series: "The Sufi Shrines of Khuldabad"
Mohit Manohar: Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Chicago.
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In countless ways, women have...

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Chattel slavery in the United States ended 150 years ago, and yet its legacy reverberates today in harmful practices and beliefs that are still being perpetuated and continue to impact descendant communities in various ways – from education to healthcare to the economy and our criminal justice system.

We invite you to participate in the inaugural two-day symposium of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) initiative, Reckoning with History, Shaping Our Future. This symposium will feature powerful dialogues and performances that aim to educate...

The Harvard Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies

Presented by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, the Department of Classics, Early Modern World at Harvard, and the Ancient Studies Program

Friday, 19 April 2024...

Vellai Mozhi - Frankly Speaking is a powerful first-person account of a hijra-thirunangai-transfeminine experience in southern India. A. Revathi enacts her life as a Tamil trans woman, stringing stories about finding community, navigating family...

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Speaker: Adrienne L. Childs: Senior Consulting Curator, The Phillips Collection

This presentation is based on Childs's forthcoming book Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts. It is the first academic book of its kind to survey decorative...

This lecture will apply critical cartographic theory to border and territorial claimsmaking during the 2020 Karabakh war and its aftermath. In the wake of the war, the sudden appearance of a “hard” international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and subsequent (ongoing) contention on border regularization thrust maps and mapping into the public eye. Putting emphasis on the social implications of technological changes in spatial representation, McGlynn will discuss the analytical shift necessary to make sense of “democratization” of geospatial tools in a...

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University are thrilled to welcome artist Walid Raad...

This Harn Eminent Scholar in Art History (HESCAH) lecture, provided by Dr. Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University, will survey images of women both human and divine in Buddhist and Hindu art of Nepal, Indian Himalayas and beyond. It will demonstrate how historical women whose names are now largely forgotten played a crucial role in uplifting the spiritual wellbeing of their partners and families as wives and mothers, just as divine mothers, like the goddess Prajñāpāramitā and the goddess Vajrayoginī, played a foundational role in...

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“Racism is the most successful advertising campaign of all time.”
— Hank Willis Thomas

The American national narrative relies on stories of overcoming a racial past — presenting a country continuously outwitting injustice. Integral to the successful adoption of this narrative is the hypervisible representation of Black people and culture in the public eye.

Award-winning conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas experiments with representation and national narrative. His art shows that if...

The Collective on the study of Gender, Religion, and the Arts conference. (GRAA) Is pleased to invite you to its biannual conference, hosted virtually on Zoom. This event brings together graduate students and...

Speaker: Eric Huntington (Rice University)

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I Tatti warmly invites applications from Harvard undergraduates for our 2024 Summer Internship Program. The deadline for submission is March 29, 2024.

The primary goal is to allow students to spend two months (June-July) at I Tatti in Florence, Italy to carry out a project that contributes to their academic development. Please note that the cookery internship requires proficiency in Italian, whereas, for the other projects, familiarity with Italian is recommended but not required....

The public realm has been historically conceived, constructed, and construed as heteronormative. The architectural and urban typologies of bathrooms, sports fields, and campuses have spatially reinforced strict gender binaries and prohibitions of various sexualities. More recently, the contemporary city has seen a growing discourse on design beyond its heteronormative origins. Queering Public Spaces convenes conversation on the role of design and planning in the curation of public spaces and landscapes that are accessible and welcoming to all, across the dynamic and vast spectrum of...

Join ICA’s Ellen Matilda Poss Director Jill Medvedow in conversation with writer, curator, and podcaster Helen Molesworth on her new book, Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art (Phaidon). Over the past three decades, Molesworth’s singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influential voices in the world of contemporary art. Open Questions, the first ever collection of her writings, presents 24 essays from the past 30 years, gathered from exhibition catalogs and art publications such as ...

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