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    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    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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    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    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,...

    Read more about Harvard Art Museums at Night

    Gallery Talk: Media as Muse in 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings

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    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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    Book Talk with Gish Jen

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    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Gish Jen RI ’02 is the award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon (Knopf, 2022), eight other books, and dozens of short stories and articles. Jen’s reading will be followed by a discussion with Alice Kessler-Harris RI ’02, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University.

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    Gallery Talk: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities

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    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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    Exhibition Tour: Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape

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    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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    Exhibition Tour: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities

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    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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    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    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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    Materials Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes

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    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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    Gallery Talk: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities

    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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    Materials Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes

    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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    Summer Solstice Celebration 2022: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

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    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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    Gallery Talk: A Sweeping Panorama—Simon de Vlieger’s View of Weesp

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    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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    Rice: A Story of Africa and the Americas

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    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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    Gallery Talk: Unpacking a 120-Year-Old Zeiss Photographic Microscope

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    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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