Visual Arts
HKS Event Examines Art and Citizenship
What defines the ambiguous distinction between a national and a world citizen, and how do institutions such as art museums influence the shifting interplay between local and global identity?
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Drawing financial support from the university and inspiration from the colorful Boston film community, film students find ample opportunites to pursue creative projects from within the department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
Horn Explores Perspective in ICA Exhibit
The Abstract Expressionists claimed the canvas as a physical embodiment of their psyche and the Minimalists examined the relationship between ...
Harvard Shorts—Your Three Minutes to Fame
Harvard what? Harvard Shorts Film Festival, the first of its kind at Harvard, is a university-wide filmmaking contest that will feature the best three-minute digital movies made by anyone in the Harvard community. If walking down the crimson carpet and enjoying celebrity status aren’t enough incentives, winners can also win prizes of up to $750.
Photography speech at the Sackler
Michelle Lamunière, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Sackler Museum, gives a speech yesterday as part of the lecture series: In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently
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What more can science uncover by turning its gaze on art—or, conversely, what can art teach the scientists?
Painting Perception
Writing not long after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, art historian and biographer Giorgio Vasari described the late master’s “Mona Lisa,” placing special emphasis on the lady’s uncanny simper. “And in this work of Leonardo’s there was a smile so pleasing, that it was a thing more divine than human to behold; and it was held to be something marvelous, since the reality was not more alive,” he wrote.
A 'Frame by Frame' History
“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive,” said Walt Disney of the cinematographic field he helped pioneer. Since Disney popularized animation however, its creative potential has been largely underestimated and the genre has often been relegated to essentially childish themes.
'New Moon' Panel Unveils CGI Tricks
Many fans of the popular “Twilight” saga and its film franchise would like to maintain the illusion that the Cullens’ sparkling diamond-like skin is merely an unfortunate sun-induced vampire affliction, or that Taylor Lautner’s transformation into a werewolf in the film version of “New Moon” is a manifestation of a Quilete tribe member’s coming-of-age in a troubled, vampire-ridden world.
