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Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
6.14.18
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Edward Mansfield, Robert Young are up for consideration.
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The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
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Practicing architecture in Myanmar
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The daylily garden
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The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
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Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Soyoung Lee
Photograph by Audrey Kotkin
Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
W.H. Auden
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A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
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Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
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Soyoung Lee
Photograph by Audrey Kotkin
Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
Photograph by Jason Wyche; © Kevin Beasley
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
Seen at the Arnold Arboretum: a paperbark maple in winter
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A veteran photographer of people turns his lens to plants.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
Harvard Magazine/NPB
The National Black Doll Museum
Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
Image © 2017 Estate of T. C. Cannon.
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Photograph courtesy of Jack Lueders-Booth/Gallery Kayafas
For seven years, Jack Lueders-Booth (above, left) visited the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham to teach a photography workshop several days each month. Roaming the grounds, he took women prisoners’ portraits with Polaroid, Leica, and medium-format film cameras, documenting scenes from daily life.
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.