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September 2021
CVC | Lecture: “GIF(ted) Bodies: Embodiment, Affect, and Gender in GIF Art”
Lecture: “GIF(ted) Bodies: Embodiment, Affect, and Gender in GIF Art” The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has been a staple of internet culture since it was first introduced by Compuserve in 1987. Although not all GIFs…
Find out more »Chazen Museum of Art | Our Kind of Happy Hour: Kota Ezawa
Join us Thursday, September 23rd at 6:30 pm on Facebook Live to hear from artist Kota Ezawa on the process of creating and the meaning behind his video collage, City of Nature (2010). City of…
Find out more »Harvard Art Museums | Virtual Student Guide Tour: Staged, with Maeve Miller
In her tour, Maeve Miller ’22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years…
Find out more »Harvard Art Museums | Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Adventures in Teaching “Drawing Lessons”
Among its many disruptions, the pandemic robbed students of the opportunity to explore works of art, in person, in the Harvard Art Museums. With considerable help from colleagues and some simple technology, however, visiting lecturer…
Find out more »CVC | Workshop: “Thinking Through the GIF Economy”
Workshop: “Thinking Through the GIF Economy” We have all seen GIFs or used them at some point—perhaps on social media or while texting. For some of us, the GIFs are the glitter and bling of…
Find out more »UW Cinematheque | Between the Lines
Between the Lines USA | 1977 | DCP | 102 min. Director: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum Silver's ode to the counterculture alternative weeklies that sprung up across the US in the 1960s depicts how the newspapers struggled…
Find out more »Wisconsin Historical Society | Finding Genealogical Collections: Everywhere and Anywhere
From mega-sites to local records, learn about using different types of genealogy resources in this engaging online webinar with the Wisconsin Historical Society. The webinar is presented Lori Bessler, a Reference Librarian at the Society…
Find out more »Getty | Bacchus Uncorked: Wine Shops of Pompeii
Among the houses and shops of ancient Pompeii, archaeologists frequently find evidence for wine shops or bars. They line main roads and back streets and collect at busy intersections and near major public buildings. These…
Find out more »UW Cinematheque | New Indian Cinema: NASIR
Free admission! NASIR India | 2020 | DCP | 85 min. | Tamil with English subtitles Director: Arun Karthick Cast: Valavane Koumarane, Balasubramanian, Jensan Diwakar Nasir chronicles a single day in the life of the…
Find out more »UW Cinematheque | “The Ancient Law” (1923) w/live score performed by Alicia Svigals & Donald Sosin
Free admission! THE ANCIENT LAW (DAS ALTA GESETZ) Germany | 1923 | DCP | 135 min. Director: E.A. Dupont Cast: Ernst Deutsch, Abraham Morewski, Henny Porten Contrasting the closed world of an Eastern European shtetl…
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