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A Closer Look: Episode 10, The Hosts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2021 35:25


On our 10th episode of A Closer Look, we wrap up the season with a chat between hosts Tara and Michael about their jobs—Digital Content Manager and Administrative Coordinator for the Deputy Director's Office, respectively—and how they got them. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we're exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they're really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions. Check out Harvard Art Museums from Home: https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/harvard-art-museums-from-home

A Closer Look: Episode 9, The Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 30:15


On this episode of A Closer Look, we talk to the Harvard Art Museums' curator of modern and contemporary art, Mary Schneider Enriquez. Mary, whose exhibitions have included "Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals" and "Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning," discusses leaving grad school, living in Mexico, discovering a love of teaching, and the joys and challenges of curatorial work. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we're exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they're really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions. Check out Harvard Art Museums from Home: https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/harvard-art-museums-from-home

A Closer Look: Episode 8, The Design Manager

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2021 21:52


On this episode of A Closer Look, we talk to the Harvard Art Museums' design manager, Zak Jensen. Zak talks about his background and early interest in design, what it means to create a visual identity for a museum, and recalls some favorite memories from his nine years at the museums, including a close encounter with architect Renzo Piano. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we're exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they're really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions. Check out Harvard Art Museums from Home: https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/harvard-art-museums-from-home

A Closer Look: Episode 7, The Exhibition Production Specialist

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2021 22:16


Erik Lindahl's road to the exhibitions team at the Harvard Art Museum included work as an artist, a studio assistant, a scenic carpenter, and a lead preparator at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago. In this episode of A Closer Look, we talk to Erik about learning on the job, working in post-war Afghanistan, and why loving art is critical to succeeding in his field. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we’re exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they’re really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions. Check out Harvard Art Museums from Home: https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/harvard-art-museums-from-home

A Closer Look: Episode 6, The Collections Assistant

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 18:00


In this episode of A Closer Look, we talk to Liz Sirrine, one of our collections assistants. A highly trained art handler, Liz helps make art accessible to everyone by facilitating visits to our unique Art Study Center. Listen to learn about Liz’s background, her dynamic job, and what advice she would give someone interested in pursuing a career like hers. Find A Closer Look on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, or your preferred podcast app!

A Closer Look: Episode 5, The Exhibition Production Manager

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 21:34


In this episode of A Closer Look, we talk to Karen Gausch, who works in our department of Collections Management as the Manager of Exhibition Production and Collections Care. Karen charts her fascinating career from installing art around New York City, to mount-making at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to managing a massive building move and making exhibitions come to life at the Harvard Art Museums.

A Closer Look: Episode 4, The Head of the Objects Lab

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 28:21


In this episode of A Closer Look, we talk to Angela Chang, who is the head of our object lab, an objects conservator, and the assistant director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Angela, who has worked at the Harvard Art Museums for eighteen years, discusses her training and experience, including working on the team that conserved and restored the famed murals by John Singer Sargent at the Boston Public Library. Interested in becoming an art conservator? This episode is for you!

A Closer Look: Episode 3, The Director of Security

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2021 16:37


Nilton Barbosa shares his experiences on leading a security team at the Harvard Art Museums. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we’re exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they’re really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions.

A Closer Look: Episode 2, The Curatorial Assistant

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021 21:23


Host Michael Ricca talks to curatorial assistant Heather Linton, who gives insights into her job and how she came to pursue a career as a museum professional. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we’re exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they’re really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions.

A Closer Look: Episode 1, The Archivist

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2021 25:16


Meet archivist, Michelle Interrante, from the Harvard Art Museums as she shares insights on her role. On Season 1 of A Closer Look, we’re exploring museum jobs: why we wanted them, how we got them, and what they’re really like! Through a series of conversations with colleagues, hosts Tara Metal and Michael Ricca will seek to demystify the museum world, discuss some surprising career paths, and explore jobs you may never have considered. Music: "Baby Lemuel" © Blue Dot Sessions.

Vernon Ah Kee, reciting "many lies"

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 1:13


Artist Vernon Ah Kee recites the text to his work "many lies" (2004) at the opening of the exhibition "Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia," on display February 5 through September 18, 2016 at the Harvard Art Museums. Recorded February 4, 2016 by R. Leopoldina Torres with permission of the artist. Copyright President & Fellows of Harvard College.

Celebrating the Calderwood Courtyard: Bells of San Biagio in Montepulciano, Italy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2018 2:29


In 2018, the Harvard Art Museums are celebrating the Calderwood Courtyard, to honor the 500th anniversary of the site that inspired its design. The two-story arcade is a replica of the facade of the canon’s house of San Biagio in Montepulciano, Italy, an ecclesiastical complex designed in the early to mid-16th century by Renaissance architect Antonio da Sangallo the Elder. Situated on a clearing overlooking the Val d’Orcia and Valdichiana Valleys, the San Biagio complex is a popular attraction for visitors. Experience it virtually from the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard, a near exact replica of the canon’s house of San Biagio.

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Amy Torbert on Copley and Trumbull in Print

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2017 32:05


Amy Torbert, the Maher Curatorial Fellow in American Art, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-copley-and-trumbull-in-print

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: James Delbourgo on Electrical Machines

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2017 40:39


James Delbourgo, associate professor of the history of science and the Atlantic World at Rutgers University, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-electrical-machines-mechanical-orreries-and-the-atom-bomb

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Oliver Wunsch on Decay

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2017 36:34


Oliver Wunsch, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-decay

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Lola Sanchez on A Repository of Gifts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2017 25:18


Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui, from the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. Sánchez-Jáuregui is the former Maher Curatorial Fellow in American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-a-repository-of-gifts

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Anne Driesse on Drawing the Rock

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017 25:03


Anne Driesse, senior conservator of works of art on paper, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-drawing-the-rock

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Simon Starling on Art and Science

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2017 29:27


Conceptual artist Simon Starling talks with curator Ethan Lasser about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. Simon Starling was born in 1967 in Epsom, United Kingdom, and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art. He was professor of fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt between 2003 and 2013. He won the Turner Prize in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2004. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennial in 2003 and has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions at Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; The Power Plant, Toronto; Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France; Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Tate Britain, London; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; MUMA, Melbourne, Australia; Casa Luis Barragán and Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. The artist currently lives in Copenhagen.

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Aleksandr Bierig on Transposition

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2017 30:02


Aleksandr Bierig, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-transposition

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Whitney Barlow Robles on Flatness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2017 35:07


Whitney Barlow Robles, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, Harvard University, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-flatness-1

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Elizabeth Athens on Virtual Realities

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2017 25:11


Elizabeth Athens, assistant curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-virtual-realities

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Laura Turner Igoe on Color and Line

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2017 18:34


Laura Turner Igoe, the Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-color-and-line

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Kate Smith on Copley’s Art of Revision

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2017 20:52


Kate Smith, associate conservator of paintings in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-copleys-art-of-revision

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Tony Sigel on Sculpture

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2017 30:14


Tony Sigel, senior conservator of objects and sculpture in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-sculpture

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Jean-François Gauvin on Scientific Instruments at Harvard

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2017 41:58


Jean-François Gauvin, director of administration at the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and lecturer on the history of science, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-scientific-instruments-at-harvard

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Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Lucie Steinberg on Smoke

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2017 22:21


Lucie Steinberg, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, Harvard University, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017.

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. on John Singleton Copley

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2017 27:58


Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., curator of American art, emeritus, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017 at the Harvard Art Museums. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-john-singleton-copley

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Jennifer L. Roberts on Submergence

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2017 38:29


Jennifer L. Roberts, the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, gallery talk on Submergence. "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-submergence

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Ethan Lasser on Art, Science, and Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2017 35:50


Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view in the Harvard Art Museums from May 19 through December 31, 2017. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-1

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Jane Kamensky on Copley at Harvard

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2017 31:48


Jane Kamensky, professor of history at Harvard University and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will give today’s gallery talk. "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations-2

Philosophy Chamber Conversations: Ethan Lasser on Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2017 43:00


Ethan Lasser, head of the Division of European and American Art and the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, talks about "The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820" on view from May 19 through December 31, 2017. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-philosophy-chamber-conversations

Records on the attack on Copley’s portrait of Governor Francis Bernard (1768)

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2017 0:20


Listen to excerpts from records on the restoration of Copley’s portrait of Governor Francis Bernard (1768) read by present-day Harvard students.

Excerpts from the records of Francisco de Miranda (1783)

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2017 0:46


Listen to excerpts from the records of Francisco de Miranda (1783) read by present-day Harvard students. The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 (May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017, Harvard Art Museums)

Excerpts from the records of Maria Morris (1809)

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2017 0:31


Listen to excerpts from the records of Maria Morris (1809) read by present day Harvard students. The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 (May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017, Harvard Art Museums)

Samuel Williams, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (1794)

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2017 1:09


Listen to excerpts from the records of Samuel Williams, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (1794) read by present-day Harvard students. The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 (May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017, Harvard Art Museums)

The restoration of Copley’s portrait of Governor Francis Bernard (1768)

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2017 0:14


Excerpts from records on the restoration of Copley’s portrait of Governor Francis Bernard (1768) read by present-day Harvard students. The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 (May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017, Harvard Art Museums)

Christopher Wilmarth - What Kind of Day is Today

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2017 2:12


Christopher Wilmarth - What Kind of Day is Today by Harvard Art Museums

Christopher Wilmarth - Talking to the Trees

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2017 2:49


Christopher Wilmarth - Talking to the Trees by Harvard Art Museums

Christopher Wilmarth - Three Times

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2017 3:34


Christopher Wilmarth - Three Times by Harvard Art Museums

Christopher Wilmarth - 1957

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2017 2:52


Christopher Wilmarth - 1957 by Harvard Art Museums

Diana Ingerman on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:19


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Diana Ingerman on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:25


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Diana Ingerman on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:57


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Diana Ingerman on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 4

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:51


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Dominique Kim on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:13


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Dominique Kim on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:12


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Dominique Kim on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 0:58


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Eloise Lynton on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:22


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Eloise Lynton on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:31


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Eloise Lynton on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:02


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Michelle Kim on Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Clip 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 1:28


This exhibition traces the emergence of the modern understanding of drawing in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression; an index of the artist’s personal style; an object of aesthetic contemplation; an epistemological tool; and a commodity. While historically grounded in the French tradition of drawing in the 18th and 19th centuries, the exhibition is neither chronological nor linear, but instead arranged around a constellation of categories that speaks to the key aspects of drawing understood as a medium, an object, and a discourse. The variety of techniques, materials, and approaches developed by the major artists of this period offers a historically complex answer to the basic question: what is it to draw? The 60 drawings on view include important works in the Harvard Art Museums’ preeminent drawings collections and two loans from Harvard’s Houghton Library. The exhibition is the result of close collaboration between Harvard professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy, who co-taught seminars on the history of drawing in the museums’ Art Study Center in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 and worked closely with their students to develop the show and its related materials. Students in the first seminar began the preliminary planning for the exhibition and wrote essays that will be published by the museums in an accompanying catalogue. These students studied and researched the drawings chosen for the exhibition, yielding new information about the works’ creation and even a new attribution—scholarship published for the first time in the catalogue. The students in the second seminar helped conceptualize the installation in the galleries and wrote labels for each drawing featured in the show. These labels will be compiled in a digital tool, which will also present audio clips of interviews with students about their research as well as additional resources. Co-curated by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

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