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Congratulations to Professor Jinah Kim for receiving grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funds will go towards building an online database of South Asian paintings. Kim’s database can determine the age of a South Asian...

An exhibition curated by Professor Melissa McCormick has been named in Washington Post's "Best of Art 2019" list. The exhibition "The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated" ran at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the first half of the year. "This...

In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her...

An exhibition co-curated by Professor Jinah Kim has been named in the New York Times' "Best of Art 2019" list. The exhibition "Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal" is currently on display at the Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy...

A first-year seminar by Assistant Professor Shawon Kinew has been the focus of a feature in the Havard Gazette. The seminar focuses on the 19th century oil portraits of 25 Native leaders captured in an era of forced relocation. The course titled “The...

Robin Kelsey, Dean of Arts & Humanities and Professor of Photography, spoke with Jonathan Shaw of Harvard Magazine as part of their podcast series "Ask a Harvard Professor" WHAT MAKES a photograph art? A great photograph may be the result of skill and...

The National Gallery of Art has announced that the Department’s own Jennifer Roberts will be giving the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in the spring of 2021. Jennifer L. Roberts is the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, and Johnson...

The Peabody Museum’s new Faculty Executive Committee convenes today, bringing together more than a dozen professors and administrators to help create an ethos of social responsibility and accountability for the museum to descendent communities. Full story...

Diane Paulus considered it self-evident to put race at the center of the American Repertory Theater’s revival of the award-winning musical “1776,” debuting next year. Speaking Friday at the “ Vision & Justice” conference, Paulus, A.R.T.’s director, said...

Can a photographic lens condition racial behavior? I wondered about this as I was preparing to speak about images and justice on a university campus. “We have a problem. Your jacket is lighter than your face,” the technician said from the back of the one...