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 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 26
Book Talk with Meghan O’Rourke
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Meghan O’Rourke RI ’15 is an award-winning writer, poet, and editor. In this book talk, O’Rourke will be discussing The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Riverhead Books, 2022).
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2022 Jul 19
Book Talk with Miguel Syjuco
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Miguel Syjuco RI ’14 is an author, journalist, civil society advocate, and assistant professor of practice, literature and creative writing at New York University Abu Dhabi. This book talk will feature Syjuco’s most recent work, I Was the President’s Mistress!! (‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).
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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
Book Talk with Gish Jen
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
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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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 09
MassQ Ball 2022: Origin
2:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
The MassQ Ball 2022: Origin will feature the diverse artistic expressions of Boston’s communities of color. Interact with the landscape in new and creative ways, transform into a walking work of art through the practice of MassQing (a ritual application of paint to the face derived from ancient traditions of body decoration), and enjoy performances and art work by Boston cultural artists including:
2:00pm–4:00pm:
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2022 Jul 07
Bonsai and Penjing Information at the Arnold Arboretum
Repeats every week on Sunday, Thursday until Sun Jul 24 2022 .
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Visit the Bonsai and Penjing Pavilion from 11am–1pm to learn about this collection of historic trees from our knowledgeable docents.
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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 06
Protecting Health Care in Conflict Areas: Lessons from Ukraine to Tigray
9:00am to 10:15am
Location: 
Harvard Global Health Institute—Online
Violence against health workers, health facilities and patients has become a pervasive aspect of modern war. Conflict and unrest create a state of insecurity that makes maintaining a functional health system nearly impossible. To weaken an adversary’s resilience and will to fight, hospitals, ambulances, and supply vehicles are commonly targeted by military forces, while health care personnel and patients are often assaulted, threatened, or stripped of access to care.
These tactics violate basic human rights and international humanitarian law. In Ukraine, Russian forces carried...
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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 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 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 26
MassQ Ball 2022: Origin | Making of Ceremonial Vessels
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Hemlock Hill and Conifer Collection, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston
Led by Bengali culture worker Pampi, this audience participatory workshop allows attendees to weave love letters into hand-crafted ceremonial vessels for their loved ones. Vessels will be fashioned out of natural materials sourced from the Arboretum grounds and displayed in the MassQ Ball on July 9.
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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 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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