In the years since the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) hosted its first art exhibition in 2006, it has seen an average rotation of 20 annual art exhibitions.

What began as an attempt to fill the bare walls with temporal art in the time and space before permanent works had been procured, has instead become a chance to share what are now oft-used venues for hosting exhibits by the varying CGIS departments and centers.

It seems the popularity of these venues has grown with the rising awareness by the different pedagogic entities of how the visual can augment and enhance their academic symposiums, conferences, and lectures – adding perhaps another dimension of interest, perhaps too bringing in a wider more diverse audience than they would otherwise.

CONTACT

Bettina Burch

Exhibition Coordinator

617-495-0713

bburch@fas.harvard.edu

Current Exhibits

2023 Oct 27

Shifting Frameworks

Fri Oct 27 (All day) to Sun Feb 25 (All day)

Location:

Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse

The end of history is never that. Empires rise and fall. Wars break out. Like a mighty river, history may change course, but on it flows. Human efforts to change the course of history — to dam rivers, mine resources, or seize territory — may alter the river’s banks, but they cannot stop time. This exhibition captures what history means in practice: what humans create, destroy, rebuild, and tell themselves about the process.

This exhibition also captures the shifting frameworks through which scholars approach past and present. Harvard’s humanists and social scientists, be they...