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It is rare for an artist to paint her own brain. Yet Irene Chou (1924–2011), a leading Hong Kong ink painter, did just that. When confronted with the X-ray that confirmed her diagnosis of cerebellar atrophy, Chou saw her life inscribed within it: “I saw...

Measurement is never neutral. From the ninth-century stupa at Borobudur to the AI latent space, this exhibition traces a single idea across a thousand years: to measure a world is to generate one. Bringing together pre-modern cosmological instruments and...

Revolutions per Minute Festival, an artist-run festival, is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, cinematic work in experiments, essay film, animation, documentary, video, and audiovisual performance. RPM Festival participates in the Mass Cultural...

Stefan Weber, Director of the Museum for Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum in Berlin Cosponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

Join acclaimed art historian Cécile Fromont for a lecture exploring the intersection of artistic creation and scholarship. Cécile Fromont specializes in the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe between 1500 and...

Cécile Fromont – Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University In the first half of the eighteenth century, African men and women enslaved or free, living in plantations or cities around the Atlantic, created empowered packets that...

More information forthcoming Title: Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe Speaker: Kristel Smentek (MIT) Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Date: Tuesday, November 17th, 2026. Time: 5:30pm, reception to follow at 7pm Room: 485 Broadway Room 422

TBD Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.

TBD Part of the Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Erika Naginski, Harvard Graduate School of Design When, in the mid-18th century, the Arcos da Lapa (or Aqueduto da Carioca) was inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro, it heralded not only the arrival of...