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2016 Aug 10

Harvard Treasures Tour: Re-creating the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres, at the Harvard Semitic Museum

12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: $5 for members

Members are invited to learn more about the Harvard Semitic Museum’s exhibit of the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres — a full-scale reproduction of an ancient Egyptian throne that dates to about 2550 BCE.... Read more about Harvard Treasures Tour: Re-creating the Throne of Egyptian Queen Hetepheres, at the Harvard Semitic Museum

2016 Oct 27

Opening Reception for Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now

5:30pm

Location: 

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free

Responding to the coup d’état and its aftermath in the 1970s, Chilean artists residing in Santiago and abroad created works that spoke to their experience of political, social, and geographic marginalization. They developed highly coded languages to evade censorship, exhibited work in public space in lieu of institutional...

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2016 Oct 27

Art Exhibition: Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now

Thu Oct 27 (All day) to Sun Jan 8 (All day)

Location: 

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: October 27-January 8, 2017
Opening Reception: Oct. 27, 2016, 5:30–7:30 pm

Responding to the coup d’état and its aftermath in the 1970s, Chilean artists residing in Santiago and abroad created works that spoke to their experience of political, social, and...

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2016 Sep 15

Opening Reception for Art Exhibition: Visiting Faculty 2016-17

5:00pm

Location: 

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street

Presented by: Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies Department
Admission: Free

The Department of Visual and Environmental Studies is home to a range of studio and theoretical studies in the arts at Harvard University. It offers courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, and animation, as well as photography, film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, and contemporary art. The academic experience transpires partially in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, where thinking and making—physical contact with various materials—intersect to enable students from a variety of disciplinary studies to be aware of their visual environment.... Read more about Opening Reception for Art Exhibition: Visiting Faculty 2016-17

2014 Oct 24

Art Exhibition and Residency: Martin Beck: Program

Fri Oct 24 (All day) to Sat Oct 1 (All day)

Location: 

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: October 24, 2014-October 2016

Level 1 + 3

Program by Martin Beck manifests through a sequence of interventions, installations, events, and publications that draw upon the exhibition histories and academic pursuits of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Department...

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2016 Jun 30

Art Exhibition: Ryland Wharton: Make an Alloy, Make an Inventory

Thu Jun 30 (All day) to Sat Sep 24 (All day)

Location: 

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: June 30-September 24

CRC/bookshop, Level 3

Make an Alloy, Make an Inventory imagines the CRC/ bookshop as a continuously rewritten page. Five discreet display areas in the bookshop house an evolving selection of images, objects,...

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2016 Aug 04

Art Exhibition: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: Three Works

Thu Aug 4 (All day) to Sat Sep 24 (All day)

Location: 

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
Runs: August 4-September 24

Level 0 + 3, Display Case + CRC/bookshop

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: Three Works at the Carpenter Center comprises a video, film stills, an...

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