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  • 2016 Feb 04

    2016 Parker Quartet Guest Artist Award-Apply by March 1

    Repeats every week every Thursday until Tue Mar 01 2016 .
    (All day)

    Location: 

    Apply by email

    2016 Competition:

    Open to Harvard undergraduate and graduate violists and cellists. All applicants must be available for the Parker Quartet's April 17 concert in Paine Hall (8pm) and for rehearsals with the Parker two weeks prior.
    Applications due March 1, 2016. Finalists will be notified by the second week of March. Live audition callbacks will take place March 23 and 25, when finalists will be invited to play during a 20-minute rehearsal of the Tchaikovsky.

    Introducing the first-ever Parker Quartet Guest Artist Award...

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  • 2016 Feb 03

    Performance with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku for "Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häusler: Pneuma(tic) Bodies"

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Level 1

    Exhibition dates: February 3-21, 2016
    Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    Hours: Galleries: 12–7, Wed–Sun
    Free and open to the public

    Performance + Reception

    with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku
    Wed, Feb 3, 6 pm
    Reception to follow

    On Feb 3, Jill Johnson, dancer, choreographer and Director of Dance at Harvard, and Hans Tutschku composer and Director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, perform in response to the installation of Pneumatic Bodies. Free and open to the public. 

    Pneuma(tic) Bodies is an installation of sculptures and photographs that explores the relationship shared by the human body, objects, and architectural space through the enveloping medium of air. Three large, balloon–like forms made of thin plastic material occupy considerable visual and physical areas on Level 1 of the Carpenter Center. The objects continuously inflate via small cooling ventilators typically used to regulate temperature in personal computers.... Read more about Performance with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku for "Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häusler: Pneuma(tic) Bodies"

  • 2016 Feb 03

    Creative Careers: My Summer in Theatre and Entertainment

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    OCS Reading Room, 54 Dunster St, Cambridge

    Presented by: Office of Career Services
    For Harvard Undergraduates only. Please register through Crimson Careers.

    Wondering what your theatre and entertainment-interested peers did last summer? Looking for some ideas of your own, and some great advice on how to secure these kinds of opportunities? Come to this panel and get the scoop from students who've been there, done that!... Read more about Creative Careers: My Summer in Theatre and Entertainment

  • 2016 Feb 03

    Gallery Talk: Beyond Bosch

    Repeats every Monday, Wednesday, Friday until Wed Feb 03 2016 except Wed Jan 27 2016, Fri Jan 29 2016, Mon Feb 01 2016.
    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

    Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
    Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

    Danielle Carrabino, associate research curator in European art, will give today’s gallery talk, which relates to the exhibition Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print, on view through May 8, 2016.... Read more about Gallery Talk: Beyond Bosch

  • 2016 Feb 03

    Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häusler: Pneuma(tic) Bodies

    Repeats every day until Sun Feb 21 2016 except Mon Feb 08 2016, Tue Feb 09 2016, Mon Feb 15 2016, Tue Feb 16 2016.
    12:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Level 1

    Exhibition dates: February 3-21, 2016
    Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    Hours: Galleries: 12–7, Wed–Sun
    Free and open to the public

    Performance + Reception

    with Jill Johnson and Hans Tutschku
    Wed, Feb 3, 6 pm
    Reception to follow

    On Feb 3, Jill Johnson, dancer, choreographer and Director of Dance at Harvard, and ...

    Read more about Silvia Benedito + C. Alexander Häusler: Pneuma(tic) Bodies
  • 2016 Feb 01

    Visiting Artist Lecture with Steve Murphy

    5:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Ceramics Studio - 224 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134

    Presented by: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

    Welcome Steve Murphy to the Ceramics Program as the new instructor for the Monday evening "Basics and Challenges" class with a visual lecture on his work and influences.  Steve, a potter/sculptor working primarily in clay began his arts education with a BFA in Design from UMass Dartmouth and continued on to study clay in Nagano, Japan. Now in his 20th year as a studio artist, his specialties are wood-fired stoneware and most recently, cast bronze.  In addition to the Ceramics Program, Murphy teachings adults and children at the Mudflat Pottery School and Danforth Art Museum School.

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  • 2016 Feb 01

    a conversation with actors ALI MacGRAW and RYAN O’NEAL

    3:00pm

    Location: 

    Kirkland House Junior Common Room, 95 Dunster St.

    Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'NealPresented by: Learning From Performers
    ADMISSION: Currently we are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event. However, please be advised that a limited number of seats may become available at the door beginning at 2:45 pm.

    Seating is first-come, first-served, subject to venue capacity, and cannot be guaranteed after 2:45 PM. Venue is accessible; patrons requiring wheelchair access should email dmanders@fas.harvard.edu by Thursday, January 28.

    Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, the stars of the iconic, Harvard-based 1970 film “Love Story” and currently co-starring in the national tour of A.R. Gurney’s acclaimed play “Love Letters,” will discuss their careers during a conversation moderated by arts journalist Alicia Anstead, former fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.... Read more about a conversation with actors ALI MacGRAW and RYAN O’NEAL

  • 2016 Jan 30

    Reflective: An Exhibition by Reiko Yamada Featuring Vijay Iyer

    Repeats every day until Sat Jan 30 2016 .
    12:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

    Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
    This exhibition opens on January 25, 2016, and runs through January 30, 2016. 
    Admission free and open to the public
    Opening reception with Reiko Yamada and Vijay Iyer: Tuesday, January 26, 5:30-7 pm

    Radcliffe Institute fellow Reiko Yamada, an independent composer and sound artist, created Reflective, a series of interactive sound art installations based on the aesthetic concept of imperfection in human life. It is an exploration of various media and interactive features to create a deeper engagement with the audience.

    This installation is unique in that its material is drawn from recordings of the acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer. The sound material, improvised and recorded in collaboration with Reiko Yamada, has been digitally processed and programmed specifically for the exhibition.... Read more about Reflective: An Exhibition by Reiko Yamada Featuring Vijay Iyer

  • 2016 Jan 29

    Reflective: An Exhibition by Reiko Yamada Featuring Vijay Iyer

    12:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

    Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
    This exhibition opens on January 25, 2016, and runs through January 30, 2016. 
    Admission free and open to the public
    Opening reception with Reiko Yamada and Vijay Iyer: Tuesday, January 26, 5:30-7 pm

    Radcliffe Institute fellow Reiko Yamada, an independent composer and sound artist, created Reflective, a series of interactive sound art installations based on the aesthetic concept of imperfection in human life. It is an exploration of various media and interactive features to create a deeper engagement with the audience.

    This installation is unique in that its material is drawn from recordings of the acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer. The sound material, improvised and recorded in collaboration with Reiko Yamada, has been digitally processed and programmed specifically for the exhibition.... Read more about Reflective: An Exhibition by Reiko Yamada Featuring Vijay Iyer

  • 2016 Jan 28

    Beyond Bosch?

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

    Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
    Free admission. Following the lecture, the Beyond Bosch exhibition will remain open until 8pm. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.

    It is nearly impossible to go “beyond Bosch.” Master of the outlandish and premier portraitist of the hellish beyond, Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) challenged imitators, yet imitators were legion, as the exhibition on display at the Harvard Art Museums shows. Joseph Leo Koerner, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, will introduce the art of this most enigmatic of painters, consider its amazing afterlife, especially in the medium of print, and explore how the achievements of the artist transcended those of his predecessors. Sketching the path from Bosch to Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), Koerner will discover the birth of a painting of everyday life from the spirit of enmity.... Read more about Beyond Bosch?

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