“Clay—Modeling African Design” was recently curated by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, and Jessica Martinez, Director of Academic and Public Programs and Division Head, Research Curator of African Art Initiatives, Harvard Art Museum.  The exhibition will be on display at the Harvard Art Museums through November 2021.

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Linda Marie Rodriguez was a scholar of all things Cuban.

Her attributes as a scholar are best represented in her main art historical project developed around José Antonio Aponte, a free black painter, born in Havana around 1760, who created a now-lost book of paintings full of historical and mythical black characters. Her ...

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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University

“Painting After the Mass-Produced Image: Art in 19^th-Century Iran”

Rulers of the Qajar dynasty (1779-1925) in Iran pursued a broad range of military, bureaucratic and social reforms, formed new institutions—including the first polytechnic (Dar al-Funun, “Abode of the Sciences”), and embraced new technologies of the mass-produced image (photography and lithography). It was also a period of heightened exchange between Iran, India, Russia and the countries of...