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American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light
Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings. […]
Find out moreFrom the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire
Enjoy the last few days of From the Andes to the Caribbean at the Harvard Art Museums! From the Andes to the Caribbean presents 26 paintings from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation—the premier U.S. private collection of Spanish colonial paintings from South America and the Caribbean—together with works from the Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition […]
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Brattle Theatre Presents: The Hustler
In portraying the game of billiards as much more than just hitting balls around, Robert Rossen and Dede Allen do for pool what Raging Bull later did for boxing. Paul Newman stars as a smalltime pool shark who wants nothing more than to challenge the great “Minnesota Fats” and break into the big time. Double Feature with […]
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Brattle Theatre Presents: Odds Against Tomorrow
Though we recently screened this taught thriller in honor of Harry Belafonte, we’re excited to bring it back—this time on 35mm. The first major film edited by Dede Allen, ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW started a career that was both influenced by and became an influence on a new wave of European filmmakers. Double Feature with THE HUSTLER […]
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Colson Whitehead at Memorial Church
Harvard Book Store welcomes COLSON WHITEHEAD—Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys—for a discussion of his latest novel Crook Manifesto. He will be joined in conversation by NAMWALI SERPELL—Professor of English at Harvard University and author of The Furrows. This event will feature an ASL interpreter. This event will be held at Memorial Church, located at […]
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Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman, Martha McCollough and Gloria Monaghan
Please join Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a poetry reading with Richard Hoffman, Martha McCollough and Gloria Monaghan with an introduction by Eileen Cleary.
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Live at The Sinclair: Red Fang
It’s been nearly five years since 2016’s Only Ghosts, but your favorite beer-crushing, zombie-killing, air-guitar-contest-judging metal heroes are back in action, doing what they do best—AND MORE.
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John Whelan
Seven-time All-Ireland accordion champion John Whelan was raised on the fiddle and pipe music of Ireland, as his father Denis was from Ireland’s county Wexford. John is now a staple at many major US Irish festivals and teaching camps, and performs solo as well as with friends such as Brian Conway, Haley Richardson (also now […]
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