Tag: Harvard University Committee on the Arts

  • Arts & Culture

    Changing face of Shehuo festival

    Photographer Zhang Xiao documented the Shehuo festival over a decade of modernization, creating a portrait of how traditional practices sustain themselves amid rapid change. The new bilingual photographic exhibition “Shehuo: Community Fire” is at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

    Boy doll head props.
  • Arts & Culture

    Free Thursday evenings? Like theater? Mixed media? Dance?

    The ArtsThursdays initiative increases accessibility and availability of Harvard arts for University affiliates and the wider community.

    Harvard Art Museums at Night event.
  • Campus & Community

    The art of the real

    The Harvard University Committee on the Arts invites seven visiting artists to create works across campus.

    Timothy Hall, one of the artists commissioned by HUCA, is pictured at Arnold Arboretum.
  • Arts & Culture

    A look behind the scenes

    This fall, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts is supporting a series of six commissions from seven contemporary artists across various disciplines.

  • Arts & Culture

    Backing art for justice

    The Harvard University Committee on the Arts has awarded 12 activist artists with one-time, no-strings-attached honorariums of $2,000 and an open invitation to present at Harvard.

    Protester from BLM event.
  • Arts & Culture

    A luminous vision for Harvard Yard

    Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”

  • Arts & Culture

    Remembering a jazz great

    Some of the biggest names in jazz will convene for this weekend’s festival in honor of the pianist and composer.

    Geri Allen.
  • Arts & Culture

    A ‘Catalogue’ of dance

    William Forsythe dance work will be the first live performance at Harvard’s Widener Library.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Disappearing’ Chilean art

    New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

    A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

  • Arts & Culture

    The art of the moment

    Vijay Iyer, the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, gathered four friends and colleagues for “Bending Toward Justice: Improvisation, Freedom, and the Arts,” a panel discussion on how dance, music, and their improvisational tendencies influence the world.

  • Campus & Community

    Robin Kelsey named dean of arts and humanities

    Robin Kelsey, chairman of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, has been named dean of arts and humanities. He will begin July 1.

  • Campus & Community

    John Harvard ‘speaks’

    For the next week, Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue will be animated by the faces, voices, and gestures of Harvard students as part of “John Harvard Projection,” a video installation created by artist and Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 9

    At the Nov. 9 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members discussed the undergraduate research programs BLISS, PRIMO, and PRISE and the work of the Harvard University Committee on the Arts. They also approved updates to the Memorial Minute guidelines.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hooray for Harvardwood

    As a liberal arts college, Harvard doesn’t train its students for jobs in Hollywood. But student clubs, a liaison network, and individual drive prompt some toward entertainment careers, a fact reflected in this year’s Oscar nominees.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Poetic Urbanisms’

    An experimental exhibit at Harvard’s newest arts space gathers and displays overlooked images and ideas from city life.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art, printmaking, and science

    Students in a History of Science class worked to create an exhibit that illustrates the importance of print technologies and printmaking, not only to the dissemination of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe, but also to its creation.

  • Arts & Culture

    A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

  • Arts & Culture

    Committee on arts announced

    Harvard University President Drew Faust today (Dec. 21) announced the formation of a University-wide advisory committee on the arts, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).