Museums
A "Bigger, Better, Faster" Museum
The Fogg Museum's galleries are closed now. One of the largest collections of art in the country, spanning numerous continents, periods, and media, has been under wraps since it closed for renovation in 2008. But from the remnants of the Fogg, a new structure has risen—devoted to broadening and refining the role of the "teaching museum."
Bee Day Generates Buzz
Tuesday’s Bee Day was an all-day celebration of honeybees, including local honey samples, tours of hives, a joint screening, and a presentation on ongoing research.
Securitas Guard Tessalon Bishop Remembered as Devoted Family Man
Family members remember Bishop, who died in a car accident on July 22, as a caring brother and son who was always full of energy and as a loving father who went “above and beyond” to support his daughters.
Seeing Old With New: Digital Push Begins in Harvard's Art Museums
For some, however, a traditional encounter with a work of art in a museum is necessarily devoid of a device like an iPad. And as Harvard’s cultural collections come of age in the digital era, curators and other museum administrators must straddle a fine line between enhancing their collections and distracting from their original purpose.
Pigeons and Silk: Ann Hamilton Discusses Art in Public
Unlike the institutionalized mediums of painting, sculpture, or, more recently, installation, public art is a less common art form.
Dubstep: Classical Style
Name your favorite dubstep song (Skillrex? Avicii?) and Kristina S. Hu ’16 can instantly turn it into a classical piano ...
Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Harvard Retaining its Artifacts
In a decision handed down last Wednesday, a federal appeals court held up a prior decision that a group of terrorism victims who won a judgment against Iran will not be allowed to claim Iranian artifacts in Harvard’s art museums as compensation for damages owed to them.
Museum Exhibit Dials In on Time
Objects ranging from primitive Bedouin calendars to Japanese timekeeping are part of an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of one of history’s most ubiquitous themes: time.
Narwhals Threatened by Climate Change, Says Science Writer
Narwhals, the Arctic whales known for their long unicorn-like tusks, could be one of the first victims of climate change, science writer Todd B. McLeish said during a well-attended lecture Saturday.
MFA Exhibit Forges Connections to Past through Porcelain
This is an exhibition that speaks very particularly to that that productive tension between the past and the present
BRUTE
A member of the Harvard community walks through EXHIBITION: BRUTE that opened on February 14th in the Carpenter Center. The exhibit by artists Katarina Burin and Amie Siegel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Carpenter Center and its unique architecture.
Islamic Art Exhibit Showcases New Technology
When the Sackler Museum opened its exhibit “In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art” this week, the occasion marked the first time a Harvard art museum has made use of augmented reality.
Calderwood Collection Celebrates Old Persia at Sackler
“In Harmony,” which opened on Monday and will remain on display until June 1, consists of the collection of Norma Jean Calderwood, a private art collector, curator, and former fine arts lecturer Boston College, who amassed an extensive array of Islamic art over the course of her life.
Will the world end on December 21st? "No, the Mayan calendar is simply starting over, just like ours does every January 1st," says Fred Surowiec. Fred explains the intricacies of the Aztec calendar to parents and children at the "Mesoamerican Calendars and 2012 Discovery Room" event at the Peabody Museum this past Saturday.
Book Signing
Jim Sterba, author of Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds held a book signing session at Harvard's Natural History Museum. Sterba delivered a speech and answered questions from his readers before proceeding to sell and sign copies of his book.
Sound Installation for Cultural Tunes
Those walking by the Carpenter Center Thursday afternoon might have heard what sounded like oriental tunes coming from the roof of the building.
New Museums of Science and Culture Director Announced
Jane Pickering, deputy director and director of public programs at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, will be the first executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced Tuesday.
Natural History at Harvard: The Great Mammal Hall
The Great Mammal Hall in the Harvard Museum of Natural History keeps an old collection of zoological specimens relevant by incorporating modern day scientific knowledge.
ICA Showcases Complexity of 1980s
From Jeff Koons to Jean-Michel Basquiat, artists whose work examines the turbulent 1980s are the subject of a new Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit.