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Bodies at Cambridge Art Association
January 19 – March 19, 2021 | Online Presented in partnership with Cambridge College Juried by Yng-Ru Chen, Founder and CEO, Praise Shadows Art Gallery Virtual Reception + Artist Talk| January 28, 6:30-7:30pm on ZOOM Click here to register About | We are embodied beings: our bodies are how we experience and encounter the world, and […]
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Coffee with Curators, for Friends and Fellows of the Museums
Join associate curator Sarah Laursen as she shares insights from her experience with digital initiatives, her work with website and museum data, and her plans for future research and installations. Led by: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art This tour for Friends and Fellows will […]
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Travel Talks with Joseph A. Greene: Carthage: The Near Eastern Origins of Urbanism in the Maghreb
Join us for our Travel Talk with a lecture presented by Joseph A. Greene Carthage is one of the best known but least understood cities of the ancient world. An ancient seaport founded by the Phoenicians early in the first millennium B.C., it was famously sown with salt by conquering Romans, who afterward rebuilt it […]
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Virtual Event: Richard Thompson Ford Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History in conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen
Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants who dressed like princes and butchers’ wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy […]
Find out moreVirtual Student Guide Tour: Seeing the Light, with Alexis Boo
Alexis Boo ’22 explores how works of art incorporate and manipulate light. Moving backward through time, this interactive tour features the Bauhaus sculpture Light Prop for an Electric Stage by László Moholy-Nagy; the early Impressionist painting Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet; and Fish and Turtles, a painted folding screen from Japan’s Edo period by Maruyama […]
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