 |  | We’re heading into the home stretch of the semester: take a break with us online! See below for some upcoming virtual programs and be sure to keep an eye on our online calendar where we are always adding new programs.
It has been said that art has always been intertwined with politics. With Election Day tomorrow, we're sharing a few ways art and politics merge in the past, present, and future. |
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 | student guide tours Upcoming Student Guide Tours On Thursday, November 5, Adam Sella '22 takes us on "The Blue Tour" to explore the color's basis in pigments and optics, its history, and its power to stir up associations and emotions. Then join Sophia Mautz '21 on Saturday, November 7 as she examines the tensions between nature and artifice in the construction of feminine beauty in her tour “The Bind of Beauty: Nature, Art, and Femininity.” |
 | art talk live The Arts of the Everyday—Found Materials in Brazilian Art & Printmaking at Home Join curatorial fellows Natalia Ángeles Vieyra and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and research curator Francesca Bewer for an exploration of innovative works at the Harvard Art Museums and beyond, followed by a demonstration of how to make a collagraphic print at home using found materials. |
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 | virtual student print rental New Print Added Have you seen the latest addition to the virtual Student Print Rental Gallery? Check out the striking work Yellow/Orange by self-described “contemporary artist, perceptual engineer, ecological mechanic, and transformer" Willie Cole. |
 | Register now for the next Harvard Ceramics Program online course offering a deeper understanding of historic ceramic objects from across the globe. |
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Menschel Curator of Photography Makeda Best's new book is now available at your favorite book seller! Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America takes a look at the career of the Civil War photographer by focusing on his social and photographic work in his home country of Scotland and situating that work in a discourse on political rights and reform in the United States.
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From Our Friends...
Wintersession course at Dumbarton Oaks - Applications are currently being accepted for a weeklong virtual course exploring cultural philanthropy in the museum space. Learn more here.
In collaboration with the organization "I am a voter," New York Magazine commissioned voting stickers with imaginative designs by 48 artists. Explore the works here.
Long before all those "I Voted" stickers popped up in Instagram feeds, political buttons were a way to wear your political heart on your sleeve. The Harvard Gazette recently took a look at the Radcliffe Institute’s collection of nearly 1,000 buttons dating back to the mid-19th century.
For even more political art, check out the National Museum of American History's online exhibition American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith, exploring voting history and fundamental questions about what it means to be a citizen.
Tomorrow's election will result in a winner - and the next piece in interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian's timely work Monument to the Unelected. Composed of lawn signs created by the artist featuring the names of every candidate who ran for President of the United States and lost, the 59th sign will be added once the votes are tallied. |
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Image (Header): Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Shooting Stars for Fallen Soldiers, 2008. Composition of twelve individually framed 20 x 24 Polaroid prints. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Polaroid Corporation, 2010.5. © Maria M. Campos-Pons.
Image (Student Guide Tours): © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Photo Credit: Tim Correira Photography
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