Faculty News

Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, situated in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. For over three decades, her critical thinking has been characterized by sophistication, rigor...

AFVS faculty Kianja Strobert will talk with Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator, Yale Center for British Art, about Francis Bacon’s Study of a Head (1952). Study of a Head is currently on view in the exhibition In a New Light: Paintings...

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is pleased to congratulate faculty member Katarina Burin for her recent award for New Work from the Collectives Futures Fund as well as for her recent mention in the New York Times. The Collective Futures...

The Steering Committee will explore in depth the most important topics of our times, and investigate up-and-coming questions regarding the future. Its main functions are to identify the most stimulating research areas to develop multidisciplinary projects...

Please join us for a conversation between Professor Giuliana Bruno (Harvard, AFVS) and acclaimed Mexican writer and artist Carmen Boullosa on her new feminist novel, The Book of Eve, named one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New Yorker. What if...

Twelve professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named 2023 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history or art, and for their...

The Icelandic Art Center is delighted to announce that Reykjavik-based artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir will represent Iceland at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (20 April – 24 November 2024). She will collaborate with...

The latest adventure in perception from Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor takes its title from Vesalius’s 1543 catalog of the human form that was both scientific compendium and work of art. “De Humani Corporis Fabrica,” Paravel and Castaing-Taylor...

In Hollywood these days, radical chic is back in fashion. A number of sexy thrillers that dramatize the history of radical politics or pose provocative hypotheticals about the future of activism have emerged. For my money, none match the incendiary power...

Apr 28, 2023 5:00 PM University of Cambridge, UK For more information click here. May 3, 2023 7:00 PM Centre Pompidou, Paris For more information click here. May 5-6, 2023 Key-note address at Bilgi University, Istanbul More info: https://ftvconference...