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Bharti Kher The Intermediary Family 2018 | About
Bourgeois. Her surrealistic works explore such themes as identity and gender, and her hybrid sculptures are often composed of half-female forms. As Kanu Agrawal has written, in Kher's works the “distinctions between humans and nature,...
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Adriana Varella & Nilton Maltz Digital DNA 2005 | About
DNA is a seven-foot-tall egg-shaped sculpture made of printed circuit boards on fiberglass and styrofoam by artists Adriana Varella and Nilton Maltz. Many of the boards are etched with phrases crowd-sourced from people of all walks of...
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Mary Frank Presence 1985-1986 | About
United States with her family in 1940. She studied with artists Hans Hoffman and Max Beckmann. Frank is a sculptor, painter, photographer, and ceramic artist. In 2014, she came to speak about her work at the Harvard Ed Portal . Presence , a large bronze View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Melvin Edwards moved to New York in 1967. In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1978 he had a retrospective at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Best known for his Lynch Fragments...
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Simone Leigh Sentinel (Mami Wata) 2020-21 | About
Loan of Bridgitt and Bruce Evans . © Simone Leigh 2023 . Born in Chicago in 1967, Leigh creates objects and environments that center Black life and interrogate stereotypes associated with Black women. In her sculptural practice, Leigh...
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Thaddeus Mosley Illusory Progression 2020 | About
generate themes together,” Mosley says. At age 95, Mosley continues to work in his studio six hours a day. Illusory Progression and Rhizogenic Rhythms were commissioned for the 2020 Frieze Sculpture exhibition at Rockefeller Center in New...
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Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks 1998 | About
bronze with black patina. Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read . © 2020 Lynda Benglis/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York . Lynda Benglis’s sculpture Cloak-Wave Pedmarks was installed on Schwartz Common as part of the exhibition...
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Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About
Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II , 1996-1997 Louise Bourgeois (French-American, 1911-2010), Eye Benches II , 1996-1997, Black Zimbabwe Granite, a pair, Each: 48 x 77 x 46 ½ in. Collection The Easton Foundation . © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY . Known for...
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Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks 1998 | About
artist and Cheim & Read . © 2020 Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York . Lynda Benglis’s sculpture Migrating Pedmarks was installed on Schwartz Common as part of the exhibition supported by the C....
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
museum trustee Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983) View Video Thaddeus Mosley, Illusory Progression , 2020, bronze. 94 × 34 × 20 in., and Rhizogenic Rhythms , 2020. Bronze, 82 × 32 × 35 in. Installation view, Harvard Business School. Exhibition supported by the C. Ludens...
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Yoan Capote Naturaleza Urbana 2012 | About
the human psyche.” Naturaleza Urbana consists of a large pair of handcuffs that connect two trees. This sculpture explores a range of issues including captivity, fate, and human struggles, and is meant to inspire conversation. Capote...
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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
the global refugee crisis, Human Flow (2017). Strength , from Ai's Roots sculpture series (2019), is cast in iron from a giant root of a pequi-vinagreiro tree ( Caryocar edule Casar ) that was found aboveground on the floor of the Bahian...
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An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard | Baker Library
An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard In conjunction with the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection , the HBS Art Program and HBS Connects hosted an evening with artist Ursula von Rydingsvard and...
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Erwin Wurm Big Disobedience 2016 | About
a large-scale suit, without a body, to stand in for the human form. The sculpture is a critique of contemporary society, its title a play on Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience.” Big Disobedience was first presented at...
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art
trustee for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Alongside a successful financial career, Joyner has collected objects ranging from abstract to figurative to 3-D sculpture made from 1945 to the present. Some 100...
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Joel Shapiro Untitled 2003 | About
dynamic arrangements of rectangular forms recall figures moving in space. Shapiro’s works are meant to engage with the surrounding architecture and landscape with a human—if abstracted—presence. His figurative sculptures are also a...
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A Capitalist in China
pre-MBA aspirations. In the classic division of MBAs into two camps, poets and quants, Kuhns falls solidly into the former. After earning an MFA in sculpture and drawing at the University of Chicago, he served as an undergraduate teaching...
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Antony Gormley PLACE 2015 | About
renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley, including his 2015 sculpture PLACE , investigate the relationship of the human body to space and question where human beings stand in relation to nature and to the cosmos. As Gormley has stated,...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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@Soldiers Field
Photos by Susan Young Photos by Susan Young An Instagram-worthy sculpture in the shape of a cartoon speech bubble—and large enough to double as a bench—is one of four new campus art installations, on loan from prominent contemporary...
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John Safer Search 1983 | About
monumental public works and commissions. In 1979, he made a bronze sculpture for Harvard Law School titled Judgment , which led to the commission for HBS. Search was designed in 1983, cast in bronze by the Tallix foundry in New York, and...
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