Events

2022 May 07

Harvard Art Museums: Student Guide Tour

2:00pm to 2:50pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.

Tours are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The Student Guide Tour reservation will also serve as your...

2022 Apr 22

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 conservator Penley Knipe for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.

Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close proximity to)...

2022 Apr 12

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 artist T. Deutch for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.

German artist Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close...

2022 Apr 07

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Painting’s Punchlines, with Sophia Clark

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this tour, Sophia Clark ’23 explores the varied means and ends of humor in three works of art that, at first glance, may not seem funny. They are Mervin Jules’s 1937 painting The Art Lover; Charles Bird King’s 1830 painting The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream; and the Archaic Greek Eye cup: Athena (c. 530 BCE), which gives drinkers a different face...

2022 Mar 31

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Printmaking and Womanhood, with Sinead Danagher, Calla Bai, and Alexis Boo

8:00pm to 8:30pm

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

In celebration of Women's History Month, Sinead Danagher '22, Calla Bai '22, and Alexis Boo '22, three Ho Family Student Guides who were classmates in Harvard's Critical Printing seminar last fall, will explore printmaking and how it relates to womanhood. They will examine a variety of works from the collections.

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2022 Mar 24

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Women and Health, with Eve Crompton

8:00pm to 8:30pm

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this tour, Eve Crompton ’23 will focus on works depicting women in poor health and what values were attributed to the figures. She will look at an Attic grave stele Woman Dying in Childbirth (c. 330 BCE); the painting Mother and Child (c. 1901) that Pablo Picasso was inspired to make after visiting a French prison hospital; and Erich Heckel’s painting ...

2022 Mar 10

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Losing Your Head, with Sawyer Taylor-Arnold

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Sawyer Taylor-Arnold ’23 will highlight a few of the not-so-pretty subjects that have fascinated painters over the centuries—notably, head wounds, decapitated bodies, and severed heads. Moving through the museums’ collections, Taylor-Arnold will explore the symbolic and historical significance of Lorenzo Lotto’s portrait Friar Angelo Ferretti as St. Peter Martyr (1549), Gustave Moreau’s The Apparition (1876–77), and Johannes Molzahn’s...

2022 Feb 10

Virtual Student Guide Tour

Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Feb 24 2022 .

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Harvard undergraduates lead these tours focused on several objects in our collections. This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. The link to join will be updated soon. The tours are free and open to all; no pre-registration required.

Learn more about these virtual tours.

2021 Nov 04

Virtual Student Guide Tour: This Land Is Whose Land?, with Jacqueline Zoeller

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

On this tour commemorating Native American Heritage Month, Jacqueline Zoeller ’23 will contrast colonial visions of the Western U.S. landscape, such as Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863), with the realities lived and portrayed by Native American artists. Stops on the tour will include Diné artist Will Wilson’s Mexican Hat Disposal Cell (2020), a landscape photograph of Halchita, Utah, the Navajo...

2021 Oct 14

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Abstract Bodies, with Paul Tamburro

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Paul Tamburro ’22 will explore the tension between abstraction and figural representation in three works of art.

Learn more about and RSVP for this virtual event.

2021 Sep 30

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Mom Matrix, with Sinead Danagher

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Sinead Danagher ’22 will explore the representation of motherhood as seen in three works of art: the wood sculpture Virgin and Child in Majesty [Seat of Divine Wisdom] made in 12th-century France; the erotic Madonna lithograph made by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in Berlin in 1895; and the woodcut Widow I (1922–23) that Käthe Kollwitz—artist and mother of two sons—made in Berlin...

2021 Sep 23

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Staged, with Maeve Miller

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In her tour, Maeve Miller ’22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years after the heyday of his involvement with the Expressionist art movement; the painting Ventriloquist (1952), which Jacob Lawrence made in Harlem, New York, as part of his Performance Series; and a woodblock print depicting...

2021 Jun 24

Virtual Student Guide Tour: World in a Vessel

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Kaitlin Hao ’21 explores how three historical vessels bring us into the worlds that created them, along with their legacies and their sense of the world yet to come.

First, she will discuss a ritual food vessel made in China in the 11th or 10 century BCE. She will then turn to a stoneware storage jar by David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, an enslaved Black man in antebellum South Carolina. And finally, she will take a...

2021 Jun 19

Virtual Student Guide Tour: White/Hammons/Marshall

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Both David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall consider their time as students of Charles White at the Otis Art Institute in the 1960s and ’70s as an important experience for them as young Black men and artists.

On this tour coinciding with Juneteenth, Maeve Miller ’22 and Cecilia Zhou ’22 will talk about a work by each of these artists: White’s linocut print of blues icon Bessie Smith (1950); Hammons’s Untitled [Body Print] (1974), which he made partly by...

2021 Jun 10

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Staged, with Maeve Miller

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In her tour, Maeve Miller ’22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years after the heyday of his involvement with the Expressionist art movement; the painting Ventriloquist (1952), which Jacob Lawrence made in Harlem, New York, as part of his Performance Series; and a woodblock print...

2021 Jun 09

Virtual Glass Flowers Tour

6:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Join us for a virtual tour of the famous Glass Flowers! This docent-led tour will delve into the history, artistry, and significance of the collection and give participants the opportunity to explore the gallery online. These interactive tours are approximately one hour long, and offer time for questions and discussion with your tour guide.

Cost: $8 members, $10 nonmembers

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2021 Jun 02

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Making Faces, with Cecilia Zhou

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Student Guide Cecilia Zhou’s art-inspired makeup tutorials have appeared on the social media channels of the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this tour, she will spend time with three paintings that inspired her: the 20th-century Head of a Woman by Russian Expressionist Alexei von Jawlensky, the 3rd-century Egyptian ...

2021 Apr 17

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Climate Change, with Sophia Mautz

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Sophia Mautz ’21 illuminates our unfolding climate crisis in her tour focused on three works of art: a 14th-century handscroll painting from Japan, Earthquake from the Legendary History of the Jin’o-ji; a photograph from 1978 by American artist Ana Mendieta, Untitled [filueta grass mound burnt with a cast iron hand, Iowa]; and ...

2021 Mar 23

Art Talk Live: The Art of Extinction in Early Modern Europe

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

Climate change has brought renewed and urgent interest in the relationship between human behavior and the mass extinction of animal species and their habitats. Early modern Europeans, too, were preoccupied with extinction, and many works of art bear witness to their concerns. Focusing on Antonio Tempesta’s print A Wolf Hunt, with a Dead Ram as Bait, this talk will examine the period’s various notions of extinction, while also drawing connections with contemporary thinking on the subject in museums and elsewhere.

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2021 Mar 20

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Design by Decay, with Mei Tercek

11:00am to 11:30am

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

Explore works that are shaped by decay and generated through destruction. This interactive tour looks closely at the beauty that remains in the wake of decay in the Thai sculpture The Standing Buddha (7th–8th century), the bronze Daphne (1930) by sculptor Renée Sintenis, and the painting Legno e Rosso 3 (1956) by Alberto Burri.

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