2022 Jul 31
In-Person Exhibition Tour: White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join curator Lynette Roth and curatorial assistant Bridget Hinz for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.
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2022 Jul 28
Harvard Art Museums at Night
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone.
Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe, browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art.
Explore our special exhibitions Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities,...
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2022 Jul 14
Gallery Talk: Media as Muse in 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Focusing on a small selection of drawings, conservator Penley Knipe will explore how Dutch artists of the 17th century creatively combined drawing media to dazzling effect in their pursuit of rendering local landscapes. Visitors will learn about well-known materials like charcoal and watercolor and lesser-known materials like gum arabic and “oatmeal” paper, as well as how the work of paper conservators advances research and scholarship.
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2022 Jul 12
Gallery Talk: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join Elisa Germán, curatorial fellow and exhibition contributor, for an introduction to the exhibition Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, on view through July 31, 2022. Germán will share insights about the research and preparation for this exhibition as one of the label authors.
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2022 Jul 06
Exhibition Tour: Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join exhibition curator Susan Anderson for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, on view May 21–August 14, 2022.
Between the late 16th and early 18th centuries, artists working in the Dutch Republic produced an extraordinary number of landscape drawings, many depicting sites that were either recognizable as or evocative of the country’s cities, villages, and countryside. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young country’s quest for...
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2022 Jul 03
Exhibition Tour: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities
Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun Jul 24 2022 except Sun Jul 17 2022.
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, on view through July 31, 2022.
Founded by Allan Edmunds in Philadelphia in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop and Archives provides a fertile environment for artists from diverse backgrounds to create cutting-edge prints. This exhibition marks the first presentation of a group of works acquired by the Harvard...
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2022 Jul 01
Screenings at Harvard Film Archive
Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Jul 31 2022 except Mon Jul 04 2022.
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Throughout July, see a variety of films from The Complete Federico Fellini Collection at the Harvard Film Archive! Showings are on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays (at 3:00pm), and Mondays (except July 4).
• Friday, July 1:  8 1/2 (Screening on Film)
• Saturday, July 2: ...
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2022 Jun 30
Harvard Art Museums at Night
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone.
Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe, browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art. Our June event will feature the smooth sounds of Boston-area DJ C-Zone.
Explore our special exhibitions Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and...
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2022 Jun 29
Materials Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Curious about the origins of camera-less photography or photograms? Join us to learn how to make cyanotypes! 
This workshop is inspired by the exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, which explores the innovative camera-less photography of German artist Anneliese Hager (1904–1997). The exhibition is on view at the Harvard Art Museums through July 31, 2022.
We will first gather in the galleries for an...
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2022 Jun 28
Gallery Talk: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join Christina Taylor, assistant paper conservator and exhibition contributor, for an introduction to the exhibition Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, on view through July 31, 2022. Taylor will share insights about the research and preparation for this exhibition.
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2022 Jun 22
Materials Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
This workshop is inspired by the exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, which explores the innovative camera-less photography of German artist Anneliese Hager (1904–1997). The exhibition is on view at the Harvard Art Museums through July 31, 2022.
We will first gather in the galleries for an introduction to the exhibition by curator Lynette Roth, who will examine a selection of Hager’s works as well as those of her...
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2022 Jun 21
Summer Solstice Celebration 2022: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
After a long hiatus, the annual Summer Solstice Celebration at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture is back—in-person! Join us on the longest day of the year from 5:00–9:00 PM to explore—free of charge—the galleries and new exhibitions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the...
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2022 Jun 21
Gallery Talk: A Sweeping Panorama—Simon de Vlieger’s View of Weesp
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Seventeenth-century artist Simon de Vlieger was one of many Dutch draftsmen who captured panoramas of the cities and towns that surrounded them. In his observed and accurate drawing of Weesp, a municipality located outside Amsterdam on the river Vecht, aspects of this recognizable view speak to larger questions of commerce and the environment. Join curatorial research associate Susan Anderson to discover these details within the broader artistic and cultural milieu of landscape drawing in the Dutch Republic.
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2022 Jun 21
Farmers’ Market at Harvard: Opening Day!
11:30am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
We are excited to announce that the Farmers' Market at Harvard will open on Tuesday, June 21! The Market will operate every Tuesday through October 25 on the Science Center Plaza.
Grab your shopping bag and join us at the market every Tuesday—pick up freshly made pastries, a carton of strawberries, farm-fresh eggs, homemade granola, locally caught seafood, a...
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2022 Jun 28
Farmers' Market at Harvard
Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Oct 25 2022 except Tue Aug 30 2022.
11:30am to 5:30pm
Location: 
Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join us at the market every Tuesday from 11:30am-5:30pm (*no Market on 8/30), and help support the vital local farmers and food artisans who ensure we have fresh, healthy, safe food!
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2022 Jun 16
Rice: A Story of Africa and the Americas
Thu Jun 16 (All day) to Fri Jun 16 (All day)
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Rice: A Story of Africa and the Americas examines the legacy of rice cultivation in the Americas. Set within the Resetting the Table exhibition, this new mini-exhibit explores the essential African knowledge systems required to establish what became a thriving industry, the horrific human toll the Atlantic Slave Trade took to maintain it, and the vibrant, enduring culture of the Gullah Geechee, descendants of enslaved Africans whose basket making and coastal subsistence traditions continue today.
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2022 Jun 14
Gallery Talk: Unpacking a 120-Year-Old Zeiss Photographic Microscope
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Curator Sara Schechner, from Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and Lynette Roth, curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will team up to explore a 120-year-old Zeiss photographic microscope. The curators will look at the assemblage of its various parts and share with visitors what they tell us about how scientists work with such a microscope. Its diverse components, housed in a wooden case, reveal not only the technical challenges of taking photographs through a microscope lens, but also the instrument’s inherent social, cultural, and aesthetic connections....
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2022 Jun 13
Reconciling with our Historical Memory: Committing to HBCUs as Social Progression
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Office of Diversity & Inclusion—Online
In honor of Juneteenth and the recent conversations around Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, specifically the identified recommendation to Develop Enduring Partnerships with Black Colleges and Universities, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion welcomes Historian Theopolies J. Moton III.
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2022 Jun 09
A global perspective on sustainable growth: A Q&A with Mamphela Ramphele
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
The Studio at the Harvard Chan School—Online
Mamphela Ramphele, the celebrated activist, physician, businesswoman, and political thinker, envisions a world that is equitable, sustainable, and peaceful. As co-president of The Club of Rome, Ramphele brings together leaders from around the globe to think through the urgent challenges of our day. In this Q&A, she'll discuss her vision, and she'll reflect on lessons learned from her remarkable career.
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2022 Jun 08
Gallery Talk: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, in Color
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Seventeenth-century Dutch artists, such as Abraham Bloemaert, Hendrick Avercamp, and Albert Cuyp, achieved coloristic effects through a variety of means. Join curator Joachim Homann in an exploration of colorful papers, inks, and washes from artists of the Dutch Republic.
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