“Interoffice documents paint a dark picture of profit for the family at the expense of human life,” the artist-activist group P.A.I.N. told Hyperallergic.
Tag: Harvard Art Museums
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home on View at the Harvard Art Museums
Featuring more than 40 contemporary works created by international artists, the exhibition challenges accepted notions about migration. On view through January 5, 2020.
The Bauhaus and Harvard on View at the Harvard Art Museums
Expansive exhibition features works by major artists, including student exercises, design objects, photographs, textiles, typography, paintings, and archival materials.
You Gotta Fight for Your Rhyta to Party
A newly opened exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums features animal-shaped drinking vessels from across the ancient Mediterranean called Rhyta.
Searching for Redemption in Post-WWII German Art
While Inventur proposes that we seek to understand and empathize with these artists, their biographies constantly nag at the moral centers of the brain.
How German Artists Rebuilt an Art Scene After World War II
This exhibition includes the work of nearly 50 artists all living and working under varying circumstances during World War II, and who all reemerged to begin reshaping German art after it ended.
A Collection of 3,000 Pigments Made from Cow Urine, Shells, Insects, and More
The Forbes Pigment Collection contains samples of material that represent all shades of the rainbow — plus brown, white, black, and metallic.
Recovering the Philosophy Chamber, Harvard’s Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet
The small chamber was at the heart of intellectual life in New England from 1766 to 1820, and then it all but disappeared.
Doris Salcedo Captures the Weight of Mourning
Doris Salcedo is interested in replicating the indefinite, affective qualities of mourning — its weight, intangibility, absurdity, and reliance on personal associations.
Harvard Adds the Blackest Black to Its Historical Pigment Collection
Harvard Art Museums acquired a sample of Vantablack, a material that absorbs almost 100% of light.
Drivel, Drool, Babble, Blabber: An Evening with Mel Bochner
The highly influential conceptual artist Mel Bochner recapitulates his 50-year dalliance with the English thesaurus.
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.