Prof. Ahuja will take the audience through the astounding quality of the sculpture at Phanigiri and focus on one piece in particular: a stele that shows Siddhartha sacrificing his turban, the mark of his inheritance.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023
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Please join us for a series of conversations with Atul Bhalla, Distinguished Climate Artist in Residence.
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Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:30pm, ET
The Mittal Institute’s inaugural Distinguished Artist Fellow, Nilima Sheikh, will be in residence at the Institute on the Harvard campus this April. Sheikh is one of South Asia’s most-renowned painters. Her work focuses on longing, loss, roots, displacement, violence, the perception of tradition and ideas of femininity.
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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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Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 06:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, S354 (3rd Floor)
Featuring a presentation and exhibit opening by the Mittal Institute’s spring semester Visiting Artist Fellows, Manjot Kaur, a visual artist from India and Dhara Mehrotra, a visual artist based out of Bangalore.
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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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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Mon, Oct 24, 2022 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm, ET
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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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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 06:00pm, ET
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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Wed, Sep 14, 2022 from 07:30pm — 10:30pm, ET
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Sanders Theater, Harvard University
The Mittal Institute at Harvard University invites you to an evening celebrating 75 years of South Asian independence from British colonial rule with a concert featuring Ali Sethi and keynotes by Amartya Sen and Syed Babar Ali.
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Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 05:30pm, ET
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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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Mon, Nov 8, 2021 from 05:30pm — 06:30pm, ET
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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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Wed, Sep 22, 2021 from 07:00pm — 08:15pm, ET
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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