Word: artfully
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...third floor of the Sackler galleries, Harvard Art Museum curator and History professor Ivan Gaskell has installed a Native American archer’s bow on loan from the Peabody Museum. Many courses taught by History of Art and Architecture faculty also incorporate objects from the Peabody’s collections and hold their sections in the Peabody galleries. This Thursday, April 1, the Harvard Art Museum Undergraduate Connection, which traditionally holds events at the Harvard Art Museum, will host a Night at the Peabody Museum, with student-led tours that treat the objects on display as artworks worthy...
Hopefully gestures like the MFA’s inclusion of Mesoamerican and Native American works in an art museum alongside the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley will help illustrate that these marginalized cultures do indeed merit appreciation and that the European masters are not the only artists entitled to aesthetic consideration. At the very least, it will present the viewer with the opportunity to experience the art of civilizations whose cultural output is traditionally relegated to the ethnography museum in order to permit an honest comparison...
...earlier version of the Mar. 30 arts article "Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art" incorrectly stated that the new wing in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was designed by Renzo Piano. In fact, it was designed by Norman Foster...
...Office for the Arts’ (OFA) annual Public Art Workshop and the Harvard Human Rights Advocates (HHRA) will collaborate on a public art installation with the theme of human rights struggles in Burma. In three meetings, which began on March 9 and will culminate on April 17, the participating artists hope to create a piece that will visually engage viewers, while raising awareness and support for Burma’s current political situation...
...class. She has since become deeply involved in human rights work, spending a gap year teaching Burmese refugees on the Thai border. When she contacted the OFA about doing an installation to raise on-campus awareness, she was introduced to Duehr to collaborate on a project with his public art workshop...