THE DIVINE COMEDY

The Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard Art Museums collaborated on an unprecedented three-part exhibition that addressed the converging domains of contemporary art and design practice. Entitled The Divine Comedy, the exhibition was comprised of major installations by internationally acclaimed artists Olafur Eliasson, Tomás Saraceno, and Ai Weiwei, was on display at the Graduate School of Design, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and the Northwest Science Building... The Divine Comedy borrows its title from Dante Alighieri's epic medieval poem in which the author presents a vision of earthly existence as an allegorical journey through the realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Dante's masterwork is widely considered to be the first poetic presentation in which scientific and philosophical theme s were given central place. This exhibition explores the political dimensions of History (Weiwei), Mind (Eliasson), and Cosmos (Saraceno), and how these aspects of..

Primary location: Cambridge United States