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Art, Affect, Archive: Udaipur’s Monumental Monsoon Moods, 1700-1900

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Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:30pm

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Udaipur’s eighteenth-century painters, more so than their earlier counterparts, exponentially stretched the affective potential of pictorial moods. They circulated images and ideas about flourishing places beyond and between objects commissioned within courts and bazaars. In the wake of British colonial ambitions, their pictures suggest counterfactual realities within moods of plenty that work against narratives of scarcity and inadequacy.

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Spirits of the Himalayas: A Conversation with the Artist and Curator

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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Tsherin Sherpa, artist John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chaired and Moderated by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Tsherin Sherpa’s work is currently on […]

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Art, Aesthetics, and Politics: A conversation with T.M. Krishna

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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 06:00pm

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

What is the role of art in deeply unequal societies? Are aesthetics political? Can artists challenge dominant orders? Please join us for a conversation between eminent Carnatic vocalist and activist T.M. Krishna

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Exhibit Launch: Capturing the Change, Imaging the Future

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Mon, Oct 24, 2022 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm

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CGIS South, 4th Floor
1730 Cambridge St

Please join us for an opening reception for the Mittal Institute’s new exhibit featuring our Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Fellows: photographers Aamina Nizar of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Sharbendu De of New Delhi, India. Their exhibit, entitled, “Capturing the Change, Imaging the Future,” will be on display

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South Asian Narratives: Reclaiming and Retelling

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Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 05:30pm

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Webinar

Register for this event Each year, the Mittal Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellowship welcomes mid-career artists from South Asia to Harvard’s campus to engage with Harvard faculty and students, to participate in art exhibitions, and to perform research using Harvard’s intellectual resources to further their art practice. On Tuesday, March 29th, the Mittal Institute will host […]

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Visiting Artist Fellowship Virtual Art Exhibition: Women in South Asia: Expectations, Burdens and Obligations

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Mon, Nov 8, 2021 from 05:30pm — 06:30pm

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Online

Register for this talk Each year, the Mittal Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellowship (VAF) welcomes mid-career artists from South Asia to Harvard’s campus to engage with Harvard faculty and students, to participate in art exhibitions, and to perform research using Harvard’s intellectual resources to further their art practice. On November 8, the Mittal Institute will host a […]

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Art Walk: Liminal Worlds by Sunanda Khajuria

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Sat, Sep 11, 2021 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm

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Art Heritage, 205, Tansen Marg, Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, New Delhi, Delhi 110001

5:00-7:00PM IST RSVP here by 4pm Friday, Sept 10 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute in association with the Harvard Club of India is hosting an immersive art walk at the exhibition themed, Liminal Worlds, featuring the artwork of a former Visiting Artist Fellow at Harvard University, Sunanda Khajuria. Explore the transient, dream-like […]

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Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future

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Wed, Sep 22, 2021 from 07:00pm — 08:15pm

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Webinar

Register for the talk Western scholarship has focused on the monumental sculptures in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley as Buddhas created in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. This lecture tells an alternative story based on Islamic sources from the tenth to the twentieth century, which saw these sculptures not as Buddhas but as legendary heroes […]

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Art and Science of Heritage Conservation: Finding the Right Balance, Part 2

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Thu, Dec 17, 2020 from 09:00am — 10:15am

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Webinar

Join via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92896152942 Join via YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekNo4vZwkLA 6:00–7:15 AM PT // 9:00 AM–10:15 AM ET // 7:00–8:15 PM PKT // 7:30–8:45 PM IST // 8:00–9:45 PM BST This event is the second in a 2-part series. View Part 1 here. As part of the Mittal Institute’s Program for Conservation of Culture, this webinar will […]

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Art and Science of Heritage Conservation: Finding the Right Balance, Part 1

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Thu, Dec 10, 2020 from 11:00am — 12:15pm

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Webinar

Join via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92896152942 Join via YouTube: https://youtu.be/sr9oSHiX62I 8:00–9:15 AM PT // 11:00 AM–12:15 PM ET // 9:00–10:15 PM PKT // 9:30–10:45 PM IST // 10:00–11:45 PM BST This event is the first in a 2-part series. View Part 2 here. As part of the Mittal Institute’s Program for Conservation of Culture, this webinar will […]

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