2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Friday, September 3, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Sunday, September 5, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Contact Info: ldsbostoninstitute@yahoo.com.
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
Sunday Divine Liturgy
Ongoing Religion
Sunday Orthros: 8:45 a.m.
Great Vespers: Saturdays at 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
8 Inman St. Cambridge.
For more info visit www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org. Memorial Church Sunday Services
Ongoing Radio
During the academic year, Sunday services are broadcast on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB 95.3 FM. For those outside the Cambridge area, WHRB provides live Internet streaming from its Web site at www.whrb.org. Services take place at 10 a.m. during the summer.
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
WHRB 95.3 FM.
For more info visit www.whrb.org. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Contact Info: ldsbostoninstitute@yahoo.com.
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Contact Info: ldsbostoninstitute@yahoo.com.
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 3:50 PM – 4:50 PM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Monday, September 6, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Thursday, September 9, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Friday, September 10, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. Art Show by Tamar Etingen
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Oct. 7.
Friday, September 10, 2010, 9:00 AM – Thursday, October 7, 2010, 5:00 PM.
Harvard Neighbors Gallery
17 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA.
2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Sunday, September 12, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Contact Info: ldsbostoninstitute@yahoo.com.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
Sunday Divine Liturgy
Ongoing Religion
Sunday Orthros: 8:45 a.m.
Great Vespers: Saturdays at 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
8 Inman St. Cambridge.
For more info visit www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org. Memorial Church Sunday Services
Ongoing Radio
During the academic year, Sunday services are broadcast on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB 95.3 FM. For those outside the Cambridge area, WHRB provides live Internet streaming from its Web site at www.whrb.org. Services take place at 10 a.m. during the summer.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
WHRB 95.3 FM.
For more info visit www.whrb.org. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Contact Info: ldsbostoninstitute@yahoo.com.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Contact Info: ldsbostoninstitute@yahoo.com.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday worship
Ongoing Religion
All are welcome. The congregations that meet at these times are composed of young, single students and professionals.
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 3:50 PM – 4:50 PM.
2 Longfellow Park (located at about 100 Brattle St.).
2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Monday, September 13, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines
Ongoing Exhibitions
This traveling exhibit, created in partnership with the Newseum in Washington, DC, features the work of five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency. "Our World at War" offers powerful depictions of the impact of conflict on civilians in Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Lebanon, Liberia, and the Philippines.
There is a special event on Sept. 9, from 4-6 p.m, with welcoming remarks by Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Dr. Steven Bloomfield, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Deborah Jackson, CEO, Amercian Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay; Mary Werntz, ICRC Head of Delegation for US & Canada; and keynote speaker Ron Haviv, (Featured Artist) Photographer, VII Photo Agency.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. 02138.
For more info visit hhi.harvard.edu. Precious Metals: From AU to ZN
Ongoing Exhibitions
View this selection of more than 30 Harvard medals taken from the Massachusetts tokens, medals, and personal medals collected and documented for the MHS by Dr. Malcolm Storer.
Serving as the curator of coins for the MHS, Dr. Storer (Harvard class of 1885, M.D. 1889) amassed over 2,000 pieces related to Massachusetts, and was by his own admission the grand “Pooh-Bah” of Boston numismatics. His connection to Harvard meant that he was able to purchase examples of Harvard club medals for the MHS on the strict understanding that they would never be sold from the Society’s collection.
“The sheer volume of medals devoted to Harvard and its Clubs on display is due to Dr. Storer’s love for his alma mater and his appreciation of the style and design that these badges and insignia display,” commented MHS Curator of Art Anne E. Bentley.
A sampling of the items on view includes a very rare Porcellian heart-shaped medal and early engraved Phi Beta Kappa medals. There are medals for Alpha Delta Phi, Hasty Pud…
Contact Info: 617.536.1608.
Friday, September 17, 2010.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St.
For more info visit masshist.org. 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
The Philip Hofer prize is awarded each year to a student at Harvard whose collection of books or works of art best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination represented by Philip Hofer '21, L.H.D. '67, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. The prize, which is to encourage student interest in collecting, was established in 1987 by Melvin R. Seiden '52, L.L.B. '55. Students competing for the prize submit an annotated list or bibliography and an essay describing the scope, contents, and goal of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. 2010 Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through May 30, 2011
Established in 1977, the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting recognizes and encourages book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. Students competing for the annual prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
Contact Info: 617.495.2455.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Second and third floor display cases, Lamont Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints
Ongoing Exhibitions
An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Rudenstine Gallery on Sept. 2. See 'special events' for more information.
In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Exhibition curated by David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and 2010 Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and Antien Knaap, Visiting Fellow, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
On November 15th the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium will be held in the Thompson Room, Barker Center featuring show curators and contributors from the Image of the Black in Western Art book series.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Rudenstine Gallery, 104 Mount Auburn St. 02138.
For more info visit dubois.fas.harvard.edu. Between Manuscripts and Printing: Illustrated Lithographs of Firdawsi's Shahnama
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Nov. 24, 2010
The Shahnama, or Book of Kings, an epic composed by the Persian poet Abu’l Qasim Firdawsi and completed in 1010 CE, tells the story of the Persian people from the creation of the world down to the Muslim conquest of Iran in the mid-seventh century. A perennially popular and influential work in Persian-speaking lands and beyond, the text was preserved not only in sumptuously illuminated manuscripts, intended for the libraries of kings, but also in less expensive and more accessible lithographed versions produced in Iran and India between 1846 and the mid-twentieth century. The Houghton Library exhibition presents five illustrated lithographed editions of the Shahnama as part of a Boston-area celebration of the millennium of Firdawsi’s epic. Related exhibitions may be seen at the Harvard Art Museum: "Heroic Gestes: Epic Tales from Firdawsi's Shahnama" and the Museum of Fine Arts: "Romantic Interludes: Women in Firdawsi's Shahnama.".
Contact Info: 617.495.2444.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit www.hcl.harvard.edu. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheong River Project in Seoul, Korea
Ongoing Exhibitions
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the previous ten years. Award-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane and worthwhile direction for the design of urban environments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Gund Hall lobby, 48 Quincy St. 02138.
For more info visit www.gsd.harvard.edu. Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
Ongoing Exhibitions
The "Headgear" exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of hornlike structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs.
Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both…
Cost: Adults: $9; Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $7; Senior citizens (65+): $7; Children ages 3–18: $6. Free with membership or with Harvard ID. Ticket Web Link: http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/plan_your_visit.html. Contact Info: 617.495.3045.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.
For more info visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu. 'Life is in the transitions': William James, 1842-1910
Ongoing Exhibitions
On view Aug. 16-Dec. 23
Artist, scientist, physician, Harvard professor, psychologist, psychic investigator, philosopher — William James explored multiple vocations in his life-long quest for intellectual clarity and spiritual fulfillment. James is widely acknowledged as one of America's most original and influential thinkers, a man of restless intelligence who championed the new and longed for astonishment.
"'Life is in the transitions': William James 1842-1910," uses the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James' death to look back at the transitional moments of his life: his vocational dilemmas, spiritual crises, professional paths, and brave philosophic sallies forward. The exhibition includes James’ sketches, lecture notes, doodles, his earliest diary, and letters to his brother and future-wife.
The exhibition opening coincides with a conference organized by the William James Society, co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Chocorua Community Association, "In the Footsteps of William James,"…
Contact Info: 617.495.2449.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more info visit hcl.harvard.edu. New Visiting Faculty 2010-11
Ongoing Exhibitions
Exhibit on view through Sept. 26
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents work by new visiting faculty in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Artists: Katarina Burin, Marina Rosenfeld, Matt Saunders, Gregory Sholette, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, and Penelope Umbrico.
Reception for the artists: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free. Contact Info: 617.495.3251.
Saturday, September 18, 2010.
Carpenter Center Main Gallery.
For more info visit www.ves.fas.harvard.edu. Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines