Artist Jeff Koons visits GSD, breathes new life into world-famous work
Internationally recognized artist Jeff Koons is not one to shy away from loud colors, enormous…
Topic Art Practices
Among the remarkable developments in contemporary culture has been the convergence of practices that once unambiguously belonged to art or design but which today happily share methods, means, and concerns.
Anatomy of Gund Hall
Anatomy of Gund Hall was developed in conjunction with the Sensory Media Workshop conducted by artist David Molander (Loeb Fellow '17) on September 30, 2016. What? In this workshop, the students will be creating a photographic mapping of Gund Hall. Photography is used as the…
Conversations on Public Art: Nato Thompson
How can public art and design practice remain socially engaged in a moment…
Open House Lecture: Janet Cardiff, “An Overview of Installations and Walks”
Canadian artist Janet Cardiff will discuss various seminal works and her collaborative process…
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Okwui Enwezor, “All the World’s Futures: Curating in a Time of Crisis”
Okwui Enwezor is director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. In 2015 he was director of…
The Kid Gets Out of the Picture at the GSD
The vocabulary of early nineteenth-century picturesque landscape architecture is almost entirely alien to contemporary ears. Clumps, lumps, masses, groups, belts, hollows—these are a few of a vast catalog of objects that once belonged to design and have long since been absorbed into colloquial ubiquity. While…
Artist Christo speaks at the GSD
“All of our projects are absolutely irrational with no justification to exist,” artist Christo declared…
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: On Ethiopian Jazz: Teshome Mitiku with the Either/Orchestra
Teshome Mitiku The Either/Orchestra, a ten-piece group that was founded in 1987 and has…
The Divine Comedy
The Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard Art Museums collaborated on an unprecedented three-part exhibition that addressed the converging domains of contemporary art and design practice. Entitled The Divine Comedy, the exhibition was comprised of major installations by internationally acclaimed artists Olafur Eliasson, Tomás…
360+ Weathers
The Danube School, based in the valley of the Danube River in Bavaria, Germany, propelled an aesthetic sensibility that allowed landscape to become an autonomous genre of painting during the early 16th century. Rather than prioritizing human figures or historical references, the paintings, etchings and…