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Critics Roast Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Official Portrait

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 28, 2022June 29, 2022

The uncanny painting by artist Jamie Coreth has prompted speculations of a Dorian Gray-style bargain and drawn comparisons to Madame Tussauds’s wax figures.

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Tamara Lanier May Sue Harvard for “Emotional Distress” Over Images of Enslaved Ancestors, Court Rules

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

But the court ruled unanimously that Harvard was not legally obligated to return the photographs.

Posted inNews

150-Year-Old Egg-Laying Mammal Specimens Found at Cambridge Museum

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 1, 2022June 1, 2022

Collected in the late 1800s, the recently rediscovered platypus and echidna specimens were key to demonstrating that mammals could lay eggs.

Posted inArt

A Meditation on Biotech’s Cycles of Healing and Harm

by Leah Triplett Harrington May 29, 2022June 1, 2022

Sharona Franklin’s artwork is a celebration and commemoration of what is gained and lost with scientific advances that result in biohazardous waste.

Posted inOpinion

Harvard Is Paying a Small Price for Laundering Its Past

by Franco Paz May 10, 2022May 11, 2022

The first and best thing the university can do to atone for its past of exploitation and profiteering is simply to renounce its present-day exploitation and profiteering.

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Harvard Enslaved Over 70 People, New Report Finds

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu April 26, 2022April 27, 2022

The school announced a $100 million fund to “redress” its legacies with slavery, but holds on to daguerreotypes of Tamara Lanier’s enslaved ancestors.

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Tamara Lanier’s Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 21, 2022November 9, 2022

In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, Lanier talks about her continuing quest for justice that includes the return of the daguerreotypes depicting her enslaved ancestors.

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An Artist’s Multi-Species Mythology, Inspired by Her Cat

Avatar photo by Sasha Cordingley April 6, 2022April 7, 2022

Set in a realm where humans are no longer sovereign, Candice Lin’s elaborate installation foregrounds the lives and deaths of felines, critters, microbes, and demons in a practice of making kin.

Posted inArt

In the Work of Ai Weiwei, Biography Supersedes Art

by Michael Glover March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

Perhaps Ai is untouchable. If that is the case, where were we left when judging his new art?

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After Student Pressure, Harvard Law School Ditches Logo Connected to Slavery

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia August 23, 2021August 25, 2021

The former shield featured the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr., who made his wealth through the labor of enslaved people.

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The Crude, Exhilarating, Watery Worlds of Alfred Wallis

by Michael Glover November 28, 2020November 30, 2020

Wallis tore up the rule book and pointed a way forward for British painting.

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Visions of Home that Are Gut-Wrenching, Contemplative, and Funny

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky December 24, 2019December 16, 2019

In Homelands, artists variously characterize home as “a transient dwelling,” “an ongoing process,” and “other people.”

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