Professor Sarah Lewis’ Vision and Justice Project was the focal point of this year’s Frieze New York Art Fair. A tribute to the project was called for, with over 50 galleries and institutions pledging their support and participating in responding to the question: ‘How are the arts responsible for disrupting, complicating, or shifting narratives of visual representation in the public realm?’ Responses to the tribute have included onsite commissions from critically acclaimed artists Carrie Mae Weems and Hank Willis Thomas.

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Kate Mills, a fifth year HAA graduate student, and her colleague, José Araneda of Scuola Normale di Pisa, have created a podcast Las cosas tienen vida. The first interview is with fellow HAA graduate student Annick Benavides.

"We warmly invite you to listen to the new Spanish podcast Las cosas tienen vida. Every Tuesday, hosts, José Araneda of Scuola Normale di Pisa and Kate Mills of Harvard University, will explore the many lives of Latin American art objects across history. In each episode we...

Across the US, the UK and Australia, the month of March is celebrated as Women’s History Month. Each year, the Harvard Square Business Association commemorates Women’s History Month by proudly publishing an annual list of women business owners and directors, as well as political, civic, academic, cultural and non-profit leaders from across the Square and across the city.

This year, Professor Suzanne has been named in the category "City of Cambridge - Business and Neighborhood Association Leaders" for her local community activism.

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Professor Sarah Lewis was recently interviewed by artnews.net as part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month.

The full article is available to read on the artnews.net website

Harvard History of Art and Architecture professor Thomas B. F. Cummins has been named the new director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard-owned research institution in Washington, D.C., according to a Tuesday...

Jinah Kims new book, Garlands of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting, explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors.She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal...

Adam Jasienski, HAA 2008 (BA), 2016 (PhD), who is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University, has been awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association for his article “Converting Portraits: Repainting as Art Making in the Early Modern Hispanic World.”

"The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize was established in 1957, in memory of a founding member of the CAA and one of the first American scholars of the discipline. This award seeks to encourage high...

Professor Lewis' article "Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law" is now available to read in volume 79 of the College Art Association's Art Journal. The full article is available to read on the CAA website.

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