Cultural production in postwar Germany was shaped by variety of oppositions: memories of the war’s horrors competed with fragile optimism for the future; renewed artistic freedoms came up against material scarcity and widespread destruction; and a growing appetite for experimentation and invention met with a lingering Nazi-inflected suspicion of anything too modern.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums... Read more about Productive Disorder: Music, Film, and Art in Postwar Germany

Artist Pedro Reyes and editor José Luis Falconi discuss Ad Usum / To Be Used, a survey of Reyes’s projects. The publication is a collection of images, interviews, and critical essays intended as an apparatus for multiplying the possibilities when art becomes a resource for the common good.

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts... Read more about Pedro Reyes: Ad Usum / To Be Used

10th Annual Harvard Student Art Show

Presented by:
Harvard Student Art Collective,
Harvard Ed Portal and
Gallery 224 - Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
 

Exhibition Dates: March 31 - April 29...

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Adam Chau

Exhibition dates: May 29 - July 2, 2018
Opening Reception with the artist: June 2, 2018 5 - 7pm | Artist Talk: 6pm

Closing ...

Houghton library presents a colloquium to celebrate its latest major exhibition “Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration.”

Presented by: Houghton Library... Read more about Colloquium: Virtual Realities: Mapping Fictional Spaces

This listening session will re-create neues Musikfest in Menschel Hall. The program will include early compositions from the Studio for Electronic Music at WDR in addition to a series of experimental pieces by French composer Pierre Schaeffer, Cinq études de bruits (Five Studies of Noises), which was referenced in the original broadcast.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums... Read more about Sound Inventur: New Music Festival, 1953

This listening session will examine the evolution of the Studio for Electronic Music following the early experiments by Eimert, Robert Beyer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums... Read more about Sound Inventur: Music of the Time, 1954

In this lecture, Joseph Connors, professor of the history of art and architecture at Harvard, will explore the shaping of Rome through the creation of targeted streets and celebratory piazzas.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums... Read more about Deciphering Rome

In this evening’s lecture, artist Fernando Bryce will describe his artistic practice as it pertains to some of his works, including his multipart installation The Book of Needs, currently on view in the University Research Gallery.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums... Read more about Drawing History and the Image as Memory

Presented by: Harvard Ceramics Program

Join us in welcoming Anne Eder to the lectern to tell us about her interdisciplinary studio practice. Anne uses clay as a sculptural element in her installations and photographic work. Anne will be the instructor for a new course, "Interdisciplinary Projects" - a mixed media, installation class this Summer at the Ceramics program.

... Read more about Visiting Artist Lecture with Anne Eder

Presented by: Harvard Ceramics Program

Join us in welcoming Natalia Arbelaez, a 2018 National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) Emerging Artist, to the Ceramics Program to speak about her work!

Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her B.F.A. from Florida International University and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, where she received an Enrichment Fellowship.... Read more about Visiting Artist Lecture with Natalia Arbelaez

Join exhibition curator Peter X. Accardo, Houghton Library, and David Weimer, Librarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning at the Harvard Map Collection, for a tour of the exhibition.

Presented by: Houghton Library... Read more about Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration - Curatorial Talk

Foreign Office Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 21, 5:30 p.m., Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study... Read more about Exhibition Opening: Foreign Office