Harvard-Art-Museums

Visual Arts Review: “The Art of Looking” — The Evolution of Harvard’s Art History Department

February 15, 2025
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The show may be a case of inside baseball, appealing to a small group of art history majors and museum lovers. But it offers a fascinating look at innovation at one of the country’s most revered, and most traditional, colleges.

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Visual Arts Review: Joana Choumali — No End of Stuff

January 30, 2025
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.

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Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks at the Harvard Art Museums

July 6, 2022
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MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.

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Visual Art Review: Krzysztof Wodiczko — The Art of Interrogative Design

January 11, 2022
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Both of these exhibits are examples of the artist as a 21st century shaman — a prophetic, as well as a creative, force.

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Visual Arts Review: “Painting Edo” — Lessons About Art and the Good Society

February 14, 2020
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Go feast your eyes.

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Visual Arts Review: A Creative Camelot — The Bauhaus and Harvard University

March 11, 2019
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This inspiring show celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Bauhaus.

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Visual Arts Review: “Doris Salcedo” — Memorializing the Innocent

November 23, 2016
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Doris Salcedo’s mourning for the dead takes material shapes, a menagerie of curious sculptures.

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Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums

June 9, 2016
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Rembrandt’s casual scratches snap into recognizability with the surprise of stage magic. But there’s no trick, it’s the genuine miracle of talent.

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Visual Arts Review: Corita Kent at the Harvard Art Museums — Mingling the Mundane and the Sublime

October 1, 2015
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The premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists

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Visual Arts Review: Harvard Art Museums Reborn – Spectacular Art in a New Showcase

November 18, 2014
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Starchitect Renzo Piano and his team did very well given their constraints. It is damn hard to build the right frame for so much abundant beauty.

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