Harvard Art Musuems

Visual Arts Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Watercolor at the Harvard Art Museums

August 1, 2023
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Among the usual suspects and idiosyncratic specimens, a handful of landscape paintings, prosaic portraits, and transcendent abstract works defy watercolor’s association with lightheartedness.

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Arts Commentary: On Racism and World’s Fairs in the Harvard Art Museums

December 8, 2014
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How African pygmies came to St. Louis has everything to do with Barnum, with freak shows, with unreconstructed racism.

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