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Arts and Culture
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THE FOLLOWING UNITS REPORT INTO THE PROVOST'S OFFICE:
American Repertory Theater
The A.R.T. occupies a unique place in the American theatre. It is the only not-for-profit theatre in the country that maintains a resident acting company and an international training conservatory, and that operates in association with a major university. Over its twenty-two year history the A.R.T. has welcomed American and international theatre artists who have enriched the theatrical life of the whole nation. The theatre has garnered many of the nation’s most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and a Jujamcyn Award. Since 1980 the A.R.T. has performed in eighty-one cities in twenty-two states around the country, and worldwide in twenty-one cities in sixteen countries on four continents. It has presented one hundred and sixty productions, over half of which were premieres of new plays, translations, and adaptations. Read more
Arnold Arboretum
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is the oldest public arboretum in North America and one of the world's leading centers for the study of plants. A unique blend of public landscape and research institution, the Arboretum is committed to providing and supporting world-class research, horticulture and education programs that foster the understanding, appreciation and preservation of trees. Created in 1872 through a trust, the Arboretum's first director, Charles Sprague Sargent, forged a public-private partnership with the City of Boston, whereby the land of the Arboretum became part of the city's renowned Emerald Necklace park system. Designed by Sargent and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the Arboretum is a national historic landmark and home to one of the world's most extensive collections of trees, shrubs and vines. Today the Arboretum's 265 acres in Jamaica Plain support researchers from around the world, as well as active programs in landscape design, adult continuing education and children's science education. Read more.
Harvard Art Museum
The Harvard Art Museum is one of the world's leading arts institutions, comprising three museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museum Archives, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Turkey). The Harvard Art Museum is distinguished by the range and depth of its collection, its groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of its staff. The collection consists of more than 260,000 objects in all media, ranges in date from antiquity to the present, and comes from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. As an integral part of Harvard and the community, the three art museums and four research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and visitors. For more than a century, the Harvard Art Museum has been the nation's premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars and is renowned for its seminal role in the development of the discipline of art history in this country. Read more
Harvard University Press
The history of the printing at Harvard began in 1638, when the first printing press arrived in British North America. It became the property of Harvard College and remained so for nearly half a century, but it was not until 1913 that the entity known as Harvard University Press was established by the Harvard Corporation. Harvard University Press (HUP) is recognized worldwide by authors, customers and the general reading public as a publisher of works of the highest quality and lasting value, consistent with the standards of one of the world's great universities. One of the largest American university presses in sales volume, Harvard University Press is the publisher of the Loeb Classical Library (in conjunction with the Harvard Classics department), the I Tatti Renaissance Library, and countless award-winning titles. Read more.
Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti is devoted to advanced study of the Italian Renaissance in all its aspects: the history of art; political, economic, and social history; the history of science, philosophy, and religion; and the history of literature and music.
Each year, an international selection committee nominates some twelve to fifteen post-doctoral scholars in the early stages of their careers to become I Tatti Fellows. In addition, I Tatti's scholarly community includes fifteen Research Associates from the Italian academic world, a number of Visiting Scholars and Visiting Professors invited for varying lengths of time, and the Director. Read more
