Art in Exile

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Vlad Batagui ’21 explores the relationship between art and the origins of its creation, looking at different ways in which art objects and artists get removed from their original cultural contexts. This interactive tour looks closely at the mural painting Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of […]

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Art Study Center Seminar: Finding Solace in Rituals

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Since we are unable to welcome you into the museums at this time, we are bringing our experts to you in a new online series, Art Study Center Seminars at Home. This has been a year of rituals interrupted. Due to the pandemic, many communal rituals that commemorate, whether in joy or grief, major occasions […]

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Student Guide Tour: Seeing the Light, with Alexis Boo

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Alexis Boo ’22 explores works of art that incorporate and manipulate light, rendering it as their medium. This interactive tour features Light Prop for an Electric Stage by László Moholy-Nagy, Gare Saint-Lazare by Claude Monet, and Fish and Turtles by Maruyama Ōkyo. This free tour will take place online via Zoom. […]

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Student Guide Tour: Intimacy in Art, with Maeve Miller

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Maeve Miller ’22 will investigate forms of intimacy across the history of art and the tensions between them by looking closely at Summer Scene  by Jean Frédéric Bazille, the sculpture Prince Shotoku at Age Two, and The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream by Charles Bird King. This free tour […]

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The Bind of Beauty—Nature, Art, and Femininity

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Sophia Mautz ’21 examines the tensions between nature and artifice in the construction of feminine beauty. She will lead an interactive discussion of the sculptures Nature Study by Louise Bourgeois and Daphne by Renée Sintenis as well as the painting Under the Cherry Blossoms (an illustration for the Tale of Genji) by […]

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